Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Security 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 Security industry.
Security provides manned and technical services and products for the protection of people, premises or property. It includes penetration testing and intrusion detection, cloud and cyber security, and homeland security, as well as privacy, biometrics, and fraud detection.

Amount of money raised in Security funding rounds is $1.6B, which is 4.0% 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 Security 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 13 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and North Africa and the Middle East. The most common country among the top VCs is The United States which hosts 13 funds. There are also funds from Japan and Israel. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 5 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, New York and Tel Aviv. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan and Israel. 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Security and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 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 2002 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2014 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14, the maximum is 625. Average number of funding rounds is 137.0 while median is 76.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 101. Average amount of lead investments is 19.0 while median is 11.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 11. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -17.15 and 27.41 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 8.23 and the median is 8.74. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 5 – 6 or 4 – 5 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 302266666.67 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 25113333.5 and median is 0.12. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.