Top 12 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Security 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 Central-Eastern Europe that have invested over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Security industry.
Security provides manned and technical services and products for the protection of people, premises or property. It includes penetration testing and intrusion detection, cloud and cyber security, and homeland security, as well as privacy, biometrics, and fraud detection.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Central-Eastern Europe is $51.7M, which is 0.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Security industry over the last 2 years.

Top 12 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Security industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located either in Hungary or Estonia. There are also funds from Poland. There is an equal amount of VCs in Budapest and Tallinn which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Warsaw and Krakow. VCs tend to invest in startups from Hungary, but also invest in startups from Poland, Estonia, and Finland. 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 Industrial, Gamification and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2018. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. 2020 holds the most deals for 6 VCs. 2019 and 2018 were fruitful for other funds.
• 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 350. Average number of funding rounds is 59.1 while median is 13.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 44. Average amount of lead investments is 10.2 while median is 4.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -59.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -4.06 and the median is 2.77. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Seed stages are more common for funds in the sample. Venture and Late stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Average round size for all VCs is less than 100 thousands. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 0.87, 0.21 and 0.2 are less common.