Top 20 investors that took part in the most Early funding rounds in IT Infrastructure industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors that have invested in Early stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in IT Infrastructure industry.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 323, which is 31.5% of the total amount of rounds in the IT Infrastructure industry over the last 4 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common region for top VCs is North America which hosts 13 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 13 funds. There are also funds from Japan, China and The United Kingdom. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Palo Alto which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Tokyo and San Mateo. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan, The United Kingdom, and Portugal. 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 Manufacturing, Enterprise Software and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1936 and the newest one in 2016. In 2012 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2011 to 2019. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6, 24 or in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 21, the maximum is 1039. Average number of funding rounds is 145.4 while median is 98.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 170. Average amount of lead investments is 49.0 while median is 31.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 8. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.3 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.93 and the median is 1.32. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors more often than in rounds with 2 – 3 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 10 – 50 million, more often than 5 – 10 million or 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.92 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.31 and median is 0.22. The most common multiplicator value is 0.12.