Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Human Resources industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Western Europe that have invested in Early stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Human Resources industry.
Human Resources provide a range of workforce solutions for managing employee life cycle and administering employee benefits. It includes everything recruiting and retirement, employment, and skill assessment.

Amount of money raised in Human Resources funding rounds is $3.9B, which is 3.1% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Western Europe over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Human Resources industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – There are a couple of leading countries in the result. They are The United Kingdom, France and Germany. They host 7 VCs each. The most common city is London which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Paris, Berlin and Stockholm. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United States and France. They also invest in The United Kingdom 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1969 and the newest one in 2016. In 2015 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. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2010 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2021 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 28, the maximum is 593. Average number of funding rounds is 185.6 while median is 116.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 167. Average amount of lead investments is 54.6 while median is 36.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 22. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.69 and 25.43 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -3.18 and the median is -5.86. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 4 – 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands and 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 632000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 38600000.13 and median is 0.1. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.