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Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Autonomous Vehicles industry over the recent years

Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Autonomous Vehicles 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 over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Autonomous Vehicles industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Western Europe is $21.9B, which is 14.7% of the total amount of money raised in the Autonomous Vehicles industry over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Autonomous Vehicles 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 9 funds. There are also funds from Germany, France and Sweden. The most common city is London which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Paris, Stockholm and Munich. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United States and The United Kingdom. They also invest in France and Germany. For half 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 Enterprise Software, Autonomous Vehicles and Telecommunications.
  • Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1870 and the newest one in 2017. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2020. For some funds, 2017 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12, 13 – 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 482. Average number of funding rounds is 95.2 while median is 46.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 166. Average amount of lead investments is 41.5 while median is 22.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 10. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -45.19 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -6.37 and the median is -4.19. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is -26.0.
  • Typical Rounds – Funds in the sample usually invest in Early, Late and Seed stages. Private Equity stage is less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 – 5, 5 – 6 or 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million, 10 – 50 million or 1 – 5 million more often than 500 million – 1 billion. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.03 at minimum and 2.67 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.57 and median is 0.28. The most common multiplicator value is 0.19.
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