Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Virtual Currency 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 Virtual Currency industry.
Virtual currency is an electronic representation of value and can be traded or used as payment. It includes cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and etherium.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $833.5M, which is 1.8% of the total amount of money raised in the Virtual Currency industry over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Virtual Currency 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 and Eastern Asia. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 16 funds. There are also funds from The United Kingdom, Germany and China. Half of VCs are based in Silicon Valley. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Menlo Park which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from New York and Palo Alto. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and The United Kingdom with the majority investing in The United States. 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 Legal, Autonomous Vehicles and Social.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2003 and the newest one in 2018. In 2018 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2020 was the peak for successful exits. 2018, 2019, and 2017 are the runner ups.
• 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 10, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 174.4 while median is 65.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 30.2 while median is 4.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -14.78 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 15.82 and the median is 19.54. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 6 – 7 or 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 14.53 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.52 and median is 1.12. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.