Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Social Network 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Social Network industry.

Amount of money raised in Social Network funding rounds is $1.3B, which is 2.3% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Social Network 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, Eastern Asia, and . The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 14 funds. There are also funds from Japan, The United Kingdom and Russia. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and San Francisco which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Los Angeles and Tokyo. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan, India, and Canada. 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 Telecommunications, Legal and Autonomous Vehicles.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1982 and the newest one in 2019. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 to 2019. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24, 7 – 12 or in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 255. Average number of funding rounds is 82.0 while median is 53.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 116. Average amount of lead investments is 30.8 while median is 16.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -8.36 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 7.82 and the median is 2.94. 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 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 10 – 50 million, 1 – 5 million or less than 100 thousands more often than 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.76 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.25 and median is 0.23. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.