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

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $2.6B, which is 1.8% of the total amount of money raised in the Banking industry over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Banking 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 9 funds. There are also funds from Western Europe, South Asia, and Eastern Asia. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 9 funds. There are also funds from India, The United Kingdom and Japan. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from India, The United Kingdom, and Japan. 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, Information Technology and EdTech.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1984 and the newest one in 2019. In 2008 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12, 2 – 6, and 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 206.0 while median is 90.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 35. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 69.6 while median is 25.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.29 and 28.07 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.61 and the median is 1.88. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3, 4 – 5 or 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands – 1 million or 1 – 5 million, more often than less than 100 thousands or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 3.04 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.36 and median is 0.19. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.