Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Industrial field 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 Industrial field.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $5.1B, which is 2.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Industrial field over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Industrial field 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 13 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 12 funds. There are also funds from Japan, China and The United Kingdom. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Tokyo which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Menlo Park and Beijing. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, Japan, 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 Manufacturing, Enterprise Software and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2019. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2004 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12, 24, 2 – 6, and in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 194.6 while median is 116.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 66.1 while median is 28.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 6. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -38.44 and 27.57 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.74 and the median is -2.01. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 – 5, 2 – 3 or 1 – 2 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 10 – 50 million, 100 thousands – 1 million and 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.89 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.2 and median is 0.18. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.