Intro

The top 12 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 Early stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Content industry. Content is for creating and managing content. It includes content creators and creative agencies, discovery and delivery networks, and content management systems.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North Africa and the Middle East is $321.4M, which is 3.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Content industry in Early rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 12 investors in North Africa and the Middle East with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Content industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Israel which hosts 7 funds. There are also funds from United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The most common city is Tel Aviv which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from Dubai, Cairo and Herzliya. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United States and Israel. They also invest in Egypt and United Arab Emirates. For the majority of the funds, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1990 and the newest one in 2016. In 2014 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Average amount of funding rounds per year is either 2 or 2 - 6 for VCs in the sample The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 112. Average number of funding rounds is 39.0 while median is 36.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 47. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 21. Average amount of lead investments is 7.8 while median is 5.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -51.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.82 and the median is 10.39. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 - 3 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 10 - 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 208400000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 18945454.67 and median is 0.1. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.