Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Agriculture 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 Late stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Agriculture industry.
Agriculture covers everything that is grown for human use. It includes farming and cultivation, hydroponics and agtech, and forestry.

Amount of money raised in Agriculture funding rounds is $20.3B, which is 1.1% of the total amount of money raised in Late rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Agriculture 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 top VCs is The United States which hosts 14 funds. There are also funds from China, The United Kingdom and Belgium. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from China and The United Kingdom. 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 Agriculture, Medical Service and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1908 and the newest one in 2018. In 2014 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2004 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2014 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 and in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 11, the maximum is 831. Average number of funding rounds is 141.8 while median is 56.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 55. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 138. Average amount of lead investments is 32.6 while median is 15.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.27 and the median is 3.93. 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 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million or 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 848950000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 86922500.45 and median is 0.42. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.