Top 8 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Delivery industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 8 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Australia and Oceania that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Delivery industry.
Delivery covers moving goods or packages to customers. Besides the delivery services themselves it includes packaging and courier services and shipping.

Amount of money raised in Delivery funding rounds is $5.6M, which is 1.3% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Australia and Oceania over the last 4 years.

Top 8 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Delivery industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in Australia while others are in New Zealand. The most common city is Sydney which is a home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Melbourne and Auckland. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Australia, but also invest in startups from New Zealand 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 Finance. They also invest in Social, Business Development and Real Estate.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2003 and the newest one in 2018. In 2004 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 3 VCs. 2020, 2017 and 2015 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 177. Average number of funding rounds is 64.1 while median is 40.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 39. Average amount of lead investments is 12.8 while median is 4.5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -40.57 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 6.39 and the median is 7.66. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 1 – 2 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100 thousands – 1 million. Less common range 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. 3.86, 1.52 and 0.47 are less common.