Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Sales 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 3 years. They are actively investing in Sales industry.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $7.7B, which is 31.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Sales industry over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Sales 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 10 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 10 funds. There are also funds from Japan, France and China. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tokyo and New York which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Menlo Park and Beijing. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan, 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 Enterprise Software, Telecommunications and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1966 and the newest one in 2019. In 2009 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12, 2 – 6, and 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 9, the maximum is 482. Average number of funding rounds is 144.8 while median is 141.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 134. Average amount of lead investments is 55.6 while median is 46.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 8. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -53.98 and 25.38 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -7.81 and the median is -6.73. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors more often than in rounds with 4 – 5 or 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 1 – 5 million, more often than 50 – 100 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.88 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.2 and median is 0.16. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.