Australia and Oceania’s Top 6 Retail Industry Investors According to Seed Rounds Investments

Intro

The top 6 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Retail industry.
Retail is how producers of goods and services get their products to the consumer. It includes online and offline retail, shopping and vending, and retail technology.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $4.3M, which is 1.4% of the total amount of money raised in the Retail industry in Australia and Oceania over the last 5 years.

Australia and Oceania’s Top 6 Retail Industry Investors According to Seed Rounds Investments
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in Australia. Headquarters of VCs are located in two cities: Sydney and Kelvin Grove with the majority being in Sydney. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: Australia and The United States with the majority investing in Australia. 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 Entertainment, Social Network and Medical Service.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 12, the maximum is 177. Average number of funding rounds is 52.8 while median is 34.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 38. Average amount of lead investments is 15.7 while median is 15.0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -41.83 and 12.33 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -9.09 and the median is -1.73. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors more often than in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of either less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 2.27 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 1.06 and median is 0.94.