Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors that have invested in Early stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Enterprise Infrastructure industry.

Amount of money raised in Enterprise Infrastructure funding rounds is $5.4B, which is 2.0% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Enterprise Infrastructure industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common region for top VCs is North America which hosts 9 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia, Western Europe, and North Africa and the Middle East. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 8 funds. There are also funds from China, Switzerland and Sweden. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from China, Switzerland, and Japan. 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, Gamification and Telecommunications.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1935 and the newest one in 2017. In 2006 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2006 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 - 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24, 7 - 12 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 285. Average number of funding rounds is 81.6 while median is 59.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 4 and maximum is 203. Average amount of lead investments is 39.3 while median is 28.5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -53.98 and 21.67 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -13.09 and the median is -12.05. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds usually participate in rounds with 4 - 5 investors, less often in rounds with 3 - 4 or 2 - 3 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 - 50 million. Less common ranges are less than 100 thousands, 1 - 5 million and 50 - 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.01 at minimum and 4.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.47 and median is 0.24. The most common multiplicator value is 0.26.