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 Late stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry. Artificial intelligence is a frontier research discipline to build computerized systems that perform tasks requiring human intelligence. It includes facial, speech and image recognition, machine learning, and natural language processing, as well as computer vision, visual search, and internet of things.

Amount of funding rounds in Western Europe is 213, which is 12.8% of the total amount of Late rounds in the Artificial Intelligence industry over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence 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 11 funds. There are also funds from France, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The most common city is London which is home to 10 funds. There are also funds from Paris, Stuttgart and Rijswijk. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United States and The United Kingdom. They also invest in France and Netherlands. For 9 funds in the sample, 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 Business Development, Manufacturing and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1898 and the newest one in 2019. In 2006 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2011 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2021 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 13, the maximum is 393. Average number of funding rounds is 127.3 while median is 85.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 167. Average amount of lead investments is 39.2 while median is 16.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -45.19 and 24.45 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.36 and the median is 4.76. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 13.62.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 - 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million and 10 - 50 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 7000000.62 and median is 0.32. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.