Top 16 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Media and Entertainment industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 16 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 over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Media and Entertainment industry.
Media and entertainment is a large sector that includes music, movies, theatre, dating and sex industry, gambling, event management, photofraphy, publishing, cirtual reality, and graphic design.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Australia and Oceania is $59.0M, which is 0.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Media and Entertainment industry over the last 4 years.

Top 16 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Media and Entertainment 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 home to 5 funds. There are also funds from Melbourne, Auckland and Perth. 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 Gamification, Entertainment and EdTech.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1885 and the newest one in 2016. In 2014 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, 2017 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2007 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2021 became the year with the most successful exits.
• 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 1, the maximum is 177. Average number of funding rounds is 45.5 while median is 28.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 39. Average amount of lead investments is 9.6 while median is 5.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 27.44 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -7.25 and the median is -4.33. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Seed stages are more common for funds in the sample. Late and Venture stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 5.28 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.87 and median is close to zero. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.