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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 3 years.

Amount of funding rounds in Western Europe is 3249, which is 20.1% of the total amount of Early rounds over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe that took part in the most Early funding rounds over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - There are a couple of leading countries in the result. They are The United Kingdom, France and Germany. They host 6 VCs each. There is an equal amount of VCs in London and Paris which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Munich and Berlin. VCs tend to invest in startups from France, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom, Germany, and The United States. 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 Banking. They also invest in Business Development, Autonomous Vehicles and Real Estate.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1972 and the newest one in 2015. 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, 2017 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 7 - 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24, 24 or in 2 - 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 54, the maximum is 482. Average number of funding rounds is 152.8 while median is 109.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 54. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 18 and maximum is 166. Average amount of lead investments is 66.6 while median is 56.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 18. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.56 and 12.49 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -4.14 and the median is -2.83. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors, less often in rounds with 2 - 3 or 4 - 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands, 100 thousands - 1 million, 10 - 50 million or 1 - 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.36 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.11 and median is 0.07. The most common multiplicator value is 0.03.