Top 20 investors that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Software 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 Late stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Software industry.
Software develops, maintains, and publishes software used by people and companies. It includes internet and consumer software, operating systems, and desktop apps, as well as gamification, automation, and SaaS.

Amount of Late funding rounds is 6117, which is 12.4% of the total amount of rounds in the Software industry over the last 5 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All funds are based in North America. All VCs are located in The United States. The majority of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 14 funds. There are also funds from New York and Massachusetts. There is an equal amount of VCs in Menlo Park and New York which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from San Francisco and Palo Alto. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is The United States. The country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide for all the funds.
• Industry Focus – The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Business Development, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2011. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2004 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 141, the maximum is 1394. Average number of funding rounds is 671.0 while median is 714.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 594. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 28 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 137.1 while median is 143.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 59. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -46.22 and 16.02 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -4.75 and the median is -5.04. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is 500 million – 1 billion. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.08 at minimum and 20.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 4.54 and median is 3.41.