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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 Human Resources industry. Human Resources provide a range of workforce solutions for managing employee life cycle and administering employee benefits. It includes everything recruiting and retirement, employment, and skill assessment.

Amount of money raised in Human Resources funding rounds is $24.2B, which is 2.5% 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 Human Resources industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common region for top VCs is North America which hosts 16 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia, Western Europe, and . The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 16 funds. There are also funds from Japan, Sweden and Russia. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from New York, Tokyo and Palo Alto. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan, Sweden, and India. 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 Gamification, Enterprise Software and Business Development.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2016. In 1983 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2010 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2013 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 13 - 24 and in 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 22, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 400.6 while median is 334.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 104.6 while median is 77.0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 25.94 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.51 and the median is 3.07. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 - 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 - 50 million. Less common range is 50 - 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 217992982.71 and median is 0.63. The most common multiplicator value is 0.25.