Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in EdTech 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 EdTech industry.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $764.7M, which is 2.5% of the total amount of money raised in the EdTech industry over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in EdTech 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, Latin America, 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, Russia and Japan. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and New York which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Tokyo and São Paulo. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom, Japan, and Brazil. 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 EdTech, Business Development and Human Resources.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1982 and the newest one in 2017. In 2013 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 and in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12 and 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 141.4 while median is 73.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 100. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 42.6 while median is 14.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 26.46 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.66 and the median is 4.11. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 3 – 4, 2 – 3 or 4 – 5 investors more often than 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 1 – 5 million or less than 100 thousands, more often than 100 thousands – 1 million or 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.96 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.23 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.