Top 13 investors in Central-Eastern Europe that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Security industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 13 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Central-Eastern Europe that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 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 Seed funding rounds is 29, which is 63.0% of the total amount of rounds in the Security industry in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 4 years.

Top 13 investors in Central-Eastern Europe that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Security industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common countries among top VCs are Estonia and Hungary. They host 5 VCs each. There are also funds from Poland and Ukraine. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tallinn and Budapest which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Warsaw and Kyiv. VCs in the sample usually invest in Hungary and Estonia. They also invest in Poland and The United States. 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 Gamification, Business Development and Social.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1992 and the newest one in 2020. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2019 and 2018. 2020 and 2017 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 6, the maximum is 350. Average number of funding rounds is 54.2 while median is 14.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 14. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 44. Average amount of lead investments is 5.8 while median is 2.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -8.5 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 13.27 and the median is 12.33. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 0.43.
• Typical Rounds – 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, 0.2 and 0.08 are less common.