Top 11 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Content industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 11 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 Content industry.

Amount of money raised in Content funding rounds is $9.1M, which is 2.8% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Australia and Oceania over the last 5 years.

Top 11 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Content 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 Auckland, Paddington and Melbourne. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: Australia and New Zealand 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 Banking. They also invest in Social, EdTech and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2003 and the newest one in 2016. In 2014 the most amount of funds were founded. 2017 holds the most deals for 7 VCs. 2015, 2018 and 2012 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 or in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 120. Average number of funding rounds is 34.4 while median is 28.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 31. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 38. Average amount of lead investments is 12.6 while median is 13.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -44.91 and 26.87 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -7.84 and the median is -1.77. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors, less often in rounds with 2 – 3 or 5 – 6 investors. The most common average round size for these funds is less than 100 thousands. Other common ranges are 100 thousands – 1 million and 5 – 10 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 0.57 and median is 0.47. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.