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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 3 years. They are actively investing in Retail industry. Retail is how producers of goods and services get their products to the consumer. It includes online and offline retail, shopping and vending, and retail technology.

Amount of money raised in Retail funding rounds is $46.9M, which is 6.1% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Latin America over the last 3 years.

Top 9 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Retail industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Brazil which hosts 5 funds. There are also funds from Uruguay, Peru and Argentina. The most common city is Sao Paulo which is home to 3 funds. There are also funds from São Paulo, Montevideo and Lima. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Brazil, but also invest in startups from Argentina and 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 Enterprise Software, EdTech and Real Estate.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2005 and the newest one in 2017. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 4 VCs. 2020, 2018 and 2017 were also fruitful.
  • 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 1, the maximum is 148. Average number of funding rounds is 52.7 while median is 25.0. 3 funds in the sample have 1 lead investments which is the most common amount. 31, 0 and 50 are found less often. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -26.34 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 7.51 and the median is 12.33. 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 5 - 6 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 - 5 investors. The most common average round size for these funds is less than 100 thousands. Other common range is 1 - 5 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 558500000.0, 0.27 and 0.08 are less common.