Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Mobile/Apps 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 in Western Europe that have invested in Seed stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Mobile/Apps industry.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $289.6M, which is 1.6% of the total amount of money raised in the Mobile/Apps industry in Western Europe over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Mobile/Apps industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – There are a couple of leading countries in the result. They are Germany, France and The United Kingdom. They host 5 VCs each. There is an equal amount of VCs in Paris and London which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Munich and Berlin. VCs in the sample usually invest in France and The United Kingdom. They also invest in Denmark 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 Banking. They also invest in EdTech, Autonomous Vehicles and Real Estate.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1982 and the newest one in 2019. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24, 7 – 12 or in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 425. Average number of funding rounds is 98.5 while median is 59.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 105. Average amount of lead investments is 35.6 while median is 23.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 11. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -10.17 and the median is -10.0. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4, 1 – 2 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 1 – 5 million, more often than 100 thousands – 1 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.68 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.19 and median is 0.15. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.