Top 10 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Gaming 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 in Seed stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Gaming industry.
Gaming is about development, marketing, and monetization of video games. It includes online and offline games for pc and console and eSports.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $14.3M, which is 49.4% of the total amount of money raised in the Gaming industry in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 2 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Hungary which hosts 3 funds. There are also funds from Poland, Estonia and Ukraine. The most common city is Budapest which is home to 3 funds. There are also funds from Warsaw, Tallinn and Zagreb. There is no investment geofocus for VCs in the sample. All of them invest in startups from different countries. 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 Business Development, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2020. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. 2020 holds the most deals for 7 VCs. 2018 and 2019 were fruitful for other funds.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 350. Average number of funding rounds is 67.8 while median is 15.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 44. Average amount of lead investments is 8.0 while median is 2.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. 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 10.31 and the median is 6.78. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. The most common average round size for these funds is less than 100 thousands. Other common range is 100 thousands – 1 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 2.01, 0.59 and 0.2 are less common.