Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Mobile 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 Mobile industry.
Mobile industry includes mobile payments, mobile apps, and app discovery.

Amount of money raised in Mobile funding rounds is $3.1B, which is 7.8% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Mobile 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 16 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 16 funds. There are also funds from Jersey, Germany and China. The majority of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 5 funds. There are also funds from Menlo Park, Washington and Palo Alto. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Nigeria, India, 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 Finance. They also invest in Business Development, Social and Mobile/Apps.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1972 and the newest one in 2018. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2011 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2012 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 526.1 while median is 461.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 503. Average amount of lead investments is 94.1 while median is 59.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.87 and the median is 4.69. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 – 50 million and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 34.2 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 6.26 and median is 3.82. The most common multiplicator value is 0.1.