Top 10 investors in North Africa and the Middle East that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Banking industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 10 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in North Africa and the Middle East that have invested in Seed stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Banking industry.
Banking handles cash, credit, and other financial transactions. It includes lending and credit, banking institutions, debit cards, and transaction processing.

Amount of Seed funding rounds is 15, which is 36.6% of the total amount of rounds in the Banking industry in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 2 years.

Top 10 investors in North Africa and the Middle East that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Banking industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common countries among top VCs are United Arab Emirates and Israel. They host 4 VCs each. There are also funds from Lebanon and Egypt. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tel Aviv and Dubai which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Herzliya and Cairo. VCs tend to invest in startups from Israel, but also invest in startups from United Arab Emirates, The United States, and Mauritius. For half 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, Business Development and Mobile/Apps.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1997 and the newest one in 2019. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 5 VCs. 2018, 2020 and 2013 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 312. Average number of funding rounds is 60.8 while median is 46.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 20. Average amount of lead investments is 7.8 while median is 5.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.67 and the median is 8.1. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 2 – 3 investors VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.43 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.09 and median is 0.04. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.