Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Location Based Services 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 Location Based Services industry.

Amount of money raised in Location Based Services funding rounds is $998.7M, which is 2.1% 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 Location Based Services 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 15 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 15 funds. There are also funds from Poland, Netherlands and Germany. There is an equal amount of VCs in Menlo Park and San Francisco which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from San Mateo and Warsaw. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Poland, Panama, 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 Gamification, Autonomous Vehicles and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1982 and the newest one in 2019. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 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 2, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 165.1 while median is 99.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 17. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 61.6 while median is 31.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -11.0 and 24.12 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.72 and the median is -0.88. 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 4 – 5, 2 – 3 or 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common ranges are 100 thousands – 1 million, 1 – 5 million and 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.57 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.28 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.15.