Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Film/Video/TV industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors that have invested in Seed stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Film/Video/TV industry.

Amount of money raised in Film/Video/TV funding rounds is $238.2M, which is 0.9% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of 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 16 funds. There are also funds from South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, and Eastern Asia. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 16 funds. There are also funds from Russia, Israel and India. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and New York which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Menlo Park and Boulder. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, India, and Israel. 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, Telecommunications and Retail.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1965 and the newest one in 2018. In 2014 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 8 VCs. 2020, 2018 and 2013 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12, 13 – 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 133.8 while median is 32.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 52.6 while median is 9.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -27.79 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -2.56 and the median is -2.35. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 – 5, 5 – 6 or 2 – 3 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 100 thousands – 1 million, 10 – 50 million and 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.37 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.32 and median is 0.18. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.