Top 10 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Software Engineering industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 10 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Central-Eastern Europe that have invested over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Software Engineering industry.
Software engineering is application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software. it includes software development applications, web development, and quantum computing, as well as quality assurance, iOS, and Android.

Amount of money raised in Software Engineering funding rounds is $31.1M, which is 1.7% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 2 years.

Top 10 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Software Engineering industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Poland which hosts 4 funds. There are also funds from Hungary, Estonia and Croatia. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. VCs tend to invest in startups from Poland, but also invest in startups from Hungary, The United States, and Finland. 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 Medical Service, Industrial and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2019. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. 2020 holds the most deals for 7 VCs. 2018 and 2014 were fruitful for other funds.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 350. Average number of funding rounds is 49.1 while median is 13.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 13. Average amount of lead investments is 3.6 while median is 1.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -6.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 14.11 and the median is 18.61. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Seed and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Venture and Late stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. Average round size for all VCs is less than 100 thousands. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 0.62, 0.59 and 0.2 are less common.