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

Amount of money raised in Human Resources funding rounds is $2.0B, which is 4.1% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Human Resources industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – VCs in the sample tend to reside in North America and Eastern Asia which host 10 funds each. There are also funds from Western Europe and . The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 10 funds. There are also funds from Japan, China and Russia. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from New York, San Francisco and Beijing. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United States and Japan. They also invest in Panama 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 Banking. They also invest in Business Development, Transportation and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1974 and the newest one in 2017. In 2011 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, 2017 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24, 7 – 12 or in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 23, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 182.4 while median is 104.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 172. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 56.8 while median is 18.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -24.85 and 26.8 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 6.72 and the median is 4.12. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 4 – 5, 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors more often than 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million, more often than 5 – 10 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.38 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.14 and median is 0.12. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.