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

Amount of money raised in Legal funding rounds is $2.3B, which is 0.6% of the total amount of money raised in Late rounds over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Legal 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, Australia and Oceania, and Western Europe. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 14 funds. There are also funds from China, Australia and The United Kingdom. The most common city is Menlo Park which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from New York, San Francisco and Palo Alto. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from China, Mauritius, and Australia. 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, Cloud Computing and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2016. In 2012 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 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12, 13 – 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 302. Average number of funding rounds is 104.6 while median is 86.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 179. Average amount of lead investments is 55.5 while median is 48.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 6. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -8.93 and the median is -5.59. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors more often than in rounds with 2 – 3 or 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 – 50 million or 50 – 100 million, more often than 5 – 10 million or less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 4.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.5 and median is 0.24. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.