The most active global investors to a large extent have develop into more busy in the second quarter of 2025, supporting and running the next rounds and putting larger sums of capital into the contract.
In total, nine of the 10 most active investors of undertakings contained more offers in Q2 than in Q1, for Crunchbase. Similarly to 80% of the 10 best investors by the variety of transactions, in addition to the overwhelming majority of the most vital investors in the second quarter.
However, while many well -known firms increased investment activities, we saw one record level Q1. Softbankwho supported himself OpenaiNon -hearted financing price $ 40 billion at the end of March, didn’t place in any of our most active or best -equipped investors rankings in Q2.
Below, we drill active investor rankings in more detail, looking at the best Venture investors, the largest expenses and the most busy seed sponsors.
The fundamental investors of the undertaking
We will start with the fundamental investors, because this is a snapshot of busy traders who also put in large capital in each round.
To Q2, Accel AND General catalyst He stood out as the most active in this metric, with 20 and 16 lead rounds, respectively.
Many of those contracts were also investments of Jumbo. For example, ACCEL led five rounds by $ 100 million more, including financing $ 500 million for generative AI Unicorn Embarrassment I SERIES C $ 260 million at StartTech Startup Real anomaly.
General Catalyst was also busy, conducting eight transactions of $ 100 million and more. His largest investment was financing of $ 1 billion for an assistant to put in writing and productivity of artificial intelligence Grammar.
The remainder of the top five – Insight partnersIN Andreessen Horowitz AND Bessemer enterprise partners – It wasn’t too far behind. Below we put them on the list of 21 most active investors in this quarter.
Expenditure
While Accel and general Catalyst could keep the most offers, they didn’t spend the most money in the second quarter.
This title is coming Finish In the case of one contract: his investment $ 14.3 billion Scales to under a strategic and financial agreement, which also had a founder Alexandr Wang Join the social media giant.
After the finish line, the most vital expenses were Founders and Andreessen Horowitz. For the founders, the rating was mainly caused by a round $ 2.5 billion, which led to the defense of a unicorn technician Transducer. For Andreessen, the largest runs was financing of seeds price $ 2 billion Thoughtful machine laboratory.
He got here after them Greenoakswho led Safe overintensionRound $ 2 billion in April.
The most mobile projects
While some investors of the undertaking focus their plants for several rounds, others have spread their money into a large variety of offers.
There is many years of distinction in the last group Y combinator. Although the best generally known as seed accelerator, he also participates in later rounds for firms he incubated, normally as an investor without leading.
This translates into many offers. In Q2 Y Combinator, he participated in 45 funds after seeds, the most investors. The composition included large rounds for high -profile firms, including the HR platform Rippling and starting robotics AI Gecko robotics.
After the Y combinator, the second most active in response to the variety of transactions was the general catalyst, which participated in 38 transactions as a leading or unsuccessful investor in Q2. Accel was in third place with 31 contracts, and then Khosla Venturesfrom 30.
Below we have made 22 the most active investors after our quarters by the variety of offers.
Seed investors
Seed phase investors were also busy in the first quarter, with known names.
Y Combinator landed in the upper gap, with 50 seed investments reported. Next was Shovelwith 33 seed offers.
From a broader perspective, below we arranged 18 of the most active global seed traders, based on reported rounds.
It must be noted that seed investment reporting differs from other stages, which can affect the variety of transactions. First of all, accelerators often report investments in parties, causing fluctuations with a high dholism from quarter to quarter. In addition, firms and supporters of the stage are often stolen and it is known that they delay the reporting of latest financing.
Generally: busy times, large checks
When we check our rankings of the most active and best -selling investors for this quarter, the wide amount of it looks quite clear. In general, these are stubborn times for supporters of startups, commanded by a high variety of contracts, in addition to individual rounds.
Looking to the future, we can be curious whether the reception of IPO activity translates into more offers and large rounds before IPO from growth investors. Given that the list of active investors is dominated by the US -oriented firms, it is going to even be interesting to see a larger international representation in the ranks.