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 3 years. They are actively investing in Software Engineering industry.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $1.9B, which is 4.5% of the total amount of money raised in the Software Engineering industry over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Software Engineering industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common region for top VCs is North America which hosts 12 funds. There are also funds from Western Europe and Eastern Asia. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 12 funds. There are also funds from Germany, Finland and Japan. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Menlo Park, Munich and Helsinki. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, Japan, and Germany. For half 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, Enterprise Software and Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 and the newest one in 2017. In 2009 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2006 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Funds equally often participate in 2 - 6, 24, 7 - 12, and in 13 - 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 199.9 while median is 113.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 61.0 while median is 26.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -17.0 and 28.07 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.2 and the median is 5.34. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds participate in rounds with 4 - 5 or 3 - 4 investors more often than in rounds with 2 - 3 or 5 - 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100 thousands - 1 million. Less common ranges are less than 100 thousands, 10 - 50 million and 5 - 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.7 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.23 and median is 0.19. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.