Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Information Services 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 Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Information Services industry.
Information services create, manage, and deliver information. It includes cloud computing, systems and information management, and IT consulting and outsourcing.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Western Europe is $569.9M, which is 15.8% of the total amount of money raised in the Information Services industry in Seed rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Information Services industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is The United Kingdom which hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from Germany, France and Spain. The most common city is London which is home to 11 funds. There are also funds from Berlin, Paris and Madrid. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United Kingdom, but also invest in startups from The United States, Germany, and France. 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 Insurance, Gamification and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1836 and the newest one in 2017. In 2013 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 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, 2021 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13, the maximum is 554. Average number of funding rounds is 134.8 while median is 50.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 47. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 4 and maximum is 108. Average amount of lead investments is 27.0 while median is 15.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -64.33 and 23.04 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -1.93 and the median is 2.45. 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. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 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 31600000.13 and median is 0.11. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.