Top 11 investors in North Africa and the Middle East with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Wellness/Personal Health 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 North Africa and the Middle East that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Wellness/Personal Health industry.

Amount of money raised in Wellness/Personal Health funding rounds is $34.7M, which is 3.1% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 4 years.

Top 11 investors in North Africa and the Middle East with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Wellness/Personal Health industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Israel which hosts 4 funds. There are also funds from Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Turkey, Mauritius, and Jordan. 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 Gamification, EdTech and Autonomous Vehicles.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2008 and the newest one in 2015. In 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2011 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2, 13 – 24 or in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 186. Average number of funding rounds is 42.5 while median is 15.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 16. Average amount of lead investments is 5.9 while median is 5.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -24.85 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 11.85 and the median is 10.82. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 4.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 1 – 2 investors more often than in rounds with 2 – 3 or 9 – 10 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million, more often than 1 – 5 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.56 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.37 and median is 0.19. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.