Top 9 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Information Services industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 9 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Latin America that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Information Services industry.

Amount of money raised in Information Services funding rounds is $6.3M, which is 1.3% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Latin America over the last 4 years.

Top 9 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Information Services industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Chile which hosts 3 funds. There are also funds from Mexico, Argentina and Peru. The most common city is Santiago which is home to 3 funds. There are also funds from Mexico City, São Paulo and Lima. VCs tend to invest in startups from Mexico, but also invest in startups from The United States, Peru, and Chile. 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 Information Technology.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1939 and the newest one in 2020. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2012 to 2019. For some funds, 2014 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 and in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24 and 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 120.9 while median is 32.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 76. Average amount of lead investments is 13.0 while median is 7.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -24.33 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 11.73 and the median is 16.5. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 1 – 2 investors more often than in rounds with 2 – 3 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million, more often than 1 – 5 million or 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.03 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.4 and median is 0.32. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.