Top 9 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence 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 Western Europe that have invested in Private Equity stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry.
Artificial intelligence is a frontier research discipline to build computerized systems that perform tasks requiring human intelligence. It includes facial, speech and image recognition, machine learning, and natural language processing, as well as computer vision, visual search, and internet of things.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Western Europe is $911.5M, which is 15.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Artificial Intelligence industry in Private Equity rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 9 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is France which hosts 3 funds. There are also funds from The United Kingdom, Switzerland and Luxembourg. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom, Switzerland, and France. 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 Transportation, Industrial and IT Infrastructure.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1981 and the newest one in 2013. In 2008 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 206. Average number of funding rounds is 76.6 while median is 59.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 26. Average amount of lead investments is 10.9 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 20. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.92 and the median is 16.8. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – No grouping tendencies in the amount of investors in the funding rounds were found in this sample. The majority of funds have an average round size of less than 100 thousands. Others have 1 – 5 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 428000000.0, 0.14 and 0.03 are less common.