Top 7 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Social Network industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 7 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Latin America that have invested over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Social Network industry.

Amount of money raised in Social Network funding rounds is $34.3M, which is 0.7% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in Latin America over the last 3 years.

Top 7 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Social Network industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among the top VCs is Brazil which hosts 4 funds. There are also funds from Chile and Argentina. The most common city is São Paulo which is a home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Santiago and Buenos Aires. VCs tend to invest in startups from Brazil, but also invest in startups from The United States, Chile, and Argentina. 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, Marketing and Social.
• Important Years –
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24, 2 or in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 790. Average number of funding rounds is 151.0 while median is 36.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 76. Average amount of lead investments is 16.7 while median is 7.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 7. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -9.89 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 9.22 and the median is 3.65. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Seed stage. Early, Private Equity and Grant stages are less common. Funds participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors more often than in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. Funds in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million more often than 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.56 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.44 and median is 0.17. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.