Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Retail 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 2 years. They are actively investing in Retail industry.
Retail is how producers of goods and services get their products to the consumer. It includes online and offline retail, shopping and vending, and retail technology.

Amount of money raised in Retail funding rounds is $34.3B, which is 3.7% of the total amount of money raised in Late rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Retail 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 16 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia, Western Europe, and South Asia. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 16 funds. There are also funds from China, The United Kingdom and India. There is an equal amount of VCs in Menlo Park and San Francisco which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from New York and New Delhi. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from India 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 Finance. They also invest in Business Development, Telecommunications and E-Commerce Platforms.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1908 and the newest one in 2019. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 and in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 11, the maximum is 694. Average number of funding rounds is 168.2 while median is 118.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 156. Average amount of lead investments is 45.6 while median is 23.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 9. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -39.75 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.54 and the median is 3.04. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 50 – 100 million or 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.2 at minimum and 327000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 27625000.87 and median is 0.9. The most common multiplicator value is 0.25.