Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Western Europe that have invested in Early stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in IT Infrastructure industry. IT infrastructure refers to the software, hardware, network resources, and services associated with the management information technology environment. It includes technical support, data center, and IaaS.

Amount of funding rounds in Western Europe is 100, which is 16.3% of the total amount of Early rounds in the IT Infrastructure industry over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe that took part in the most Early funding rounds in IT Infrastructure industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is The United Kingdom which hosts 8 funds. There are also funds from Portugal, Germany and Sweden. The most common city is London which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Stockholm, Stuttgart and Prague. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United Kingdom, but also invest in startups from The United States, Portugal, and Germany. For the majority of the funds, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide.
  • Industry Focus - The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Industrial, Business Development and Mobile/Apps.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1936 and the newest one in 2016. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2011 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2011 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 - 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14, the maximum is 320. Average number of funding rounds is 90.7 while median is 81.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 103. Average amount of lead investments is 21.3 while median is 15.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -13.11 and 25.43 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.93 and the median is 6.98. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 - 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 5 - 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 140000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 7368421.28 and median is 0.24. The most common multiplicator value is 0.02.