Top 20 investors that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Film/Video/TV industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors that have invested in Seed stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Film/Video/TV industry.

Amount of funding rounds in Film/Video/TV is 470, which is 1.7% of the total amount of Seed rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Film/Video/TV industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common region for top VCs is North America which hosts 12 funds. There are also funds from Western Europe, South Asia, and North Africa and the Middle East. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 12 funds. There are also funds from India, The United Kingdom and Switzerland. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 5 funds. There are also funds from New York, Mumbai and Zug. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, India, and The United Kingdom. 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 Business Development, Enterprise Software and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1998 and the newest one in 2017. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2011 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 and in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12 and in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 236.0 while median is 88.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 57.2 while median is 24.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -43.0 and 28.68 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.2 and the median is 13.05. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors more often than in rounds with 1 – 2 or 4 – 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands – 1 million, less than 100 thousands or 1 – 5 million more often than 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.02 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.29 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.