Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence 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 Seed stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $2.1B, which is 3.2% of the total amount of money raised in the Artificial Intelligence industry over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence 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 11 funds. There are also funds from Western Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and Eastern Asia. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from The United Kingdom, Japan and Israel. The most common city is London which is home to 3 funds. There are also funds from Tokyo, San Francisco and Palo Alto. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom, Japan, and Panama. 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 Real Estate, Business Development and Autonomous Vehicles.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1995 and the newest one in 2018. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2019 and 2020. 2018 and 2014 were less fruitful.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12, 13 – 24, and 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 168.3 while median is 74.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 72.5 while median is 28.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 18. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.38 and 17.71 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -5.6 and the median is -3.01. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors, less often in rounds with 4 – 5 or 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands, 10 – 50 million or 100 thousands – 1 million more often than 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.68 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.2 and median is 0.16. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.