Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Hardware/Electronics 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 that have invested in Early stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Hardware/Electronics industry.

Amount of money raised in Hardware/Electronics funding rounds is $45.8B, which is 8.2% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds over the last 5 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common region for top VCs is Eastern Asia which hosts 13 funds. There are also funds from North America and Western Europe. The most common country among top VCs is Japan which hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from The United States, China and France. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 11 funds. There are also funds from Palo Alto, Zhongshan and Shanghai. VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also invest in startups from The United States, China, 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 Banking. They also invest in Autonomous Vehicles, Enterprise Software and Manufacturing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1970 and the newest one in 2016. In 2015 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, 2018 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, 13 – 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10, the maximum is 347. Average number of funding rounds is 121.0 while median is 88.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 51. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 205. Average amount of lead investments is 52.6 while median is 21.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -38.44 and 27.24 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -1.27 and the median is -0.37. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 4 – 5, 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors more often than 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 10 – 50 million, 1 – 5 million and 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.51 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.1 and median is 0.03. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.