Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Bio & Nano Technology 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Bio & Nano Technology industry.

Amount of money raised in Bio & Nano Technology funding rounds is $3.1B, which is 5.7% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Bio & Nano Technology 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 10 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 9 funds. There are also funds from Japan, China and The United Kingdom. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Menlo Park, San Francisco and New York. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan, 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 Banking. They also invest in Manufacturing, EdTech and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1976 and the newest one in 2016. In 2015 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, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 24, 2 – 6, and 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 208.4 while median is 129.0. 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 75.2 while median is 22.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.1 and 28.05 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.14 and the median is -0.8. 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 3 – 4, 2 – 3 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 10 – 50 million, more often than 100 thousands – 1 million or 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.43 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.15 and median is 0.1. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.