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 Sales industry.

Amount of money raised in Sales funding rounds is $393.0M, which is 1.5% 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 Sales industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The funds are based in 2 regions: North America and Eastern Asia with the majority being in North America. The majority of VCs are located in The United States while others are in Japan. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Tokyo, Seattle and Mountain View. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from 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 Enterprise Software, Business Development and Gamification.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1996 and the newest one in 2018. In 2013 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 - 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 - 12, 13 - 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 107.6 while median is 33.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 35.8 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.38 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 6.07 and the median is 4.56. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is -1.77.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 - 5, 5 - 6 or 2 - 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands - 1 million, less than 100 thousands or 1 - 5 million more often than 5 - 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.69 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.2 and median is 0.17. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.