Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Security 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 4 years. They are actively investing in Security industry.

Amount of money raised in Security funding rounds is $19.0B, which is 3.8% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Security 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 14 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The most common country among the top VCs is The United States which hosts 14 funds. There are also funds from Japan and France. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tokyo and Menlo Park which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from New York and Palo Alto. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan and China. 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 Telecommunications, Information Technology and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1858 and the newest one in 2016. In 2000 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.
• 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 17, the maximum is 463. Average number of funding rounds is 145.3 while median is 119.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 42. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 5 and maximum is 226. Average amount of lead investments is 72.8 while median is 48.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 11. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 17.57 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -8.61 and the median is -8.77. 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 3 – 4, 2 – 3 or 1 – 2 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common ranges are less than 100 thousands, 50 – 100 million and 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 7.74 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.66 and median is 0.26. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.