Top 12 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Telecommunications industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 12 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 3 years. They are actively investing in Telecommunications industry.
Telecommunications is about making communication possible. It includes providing cable and internet services, voice and video chatting, internet and communication software and hardware, as well as wireless technologies and NFC.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $18.3M, which is 2.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Telecommunications industry in Australia and Oceania over the last 3 years.

Top 12 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Telecommunications 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 a home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Auckland and Melbourne. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: Australia and New Zealand with the majority investing in Australia. The country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide for all the funds.
• Industry Focus – The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Social, EdTech and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2002 and the newest one in 2016. In 2016 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2017 and 2015. 2020 and 2019 were less fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 177. Average number of funding rounds is 50.9 while median is 25.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 38. Average amount of lead investments is 10.1 while median is 3.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 7.19 and the median is 6.35. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 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 0.41 and median is 0.26. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.