Intro

The top 13 investors according to the total amount of 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 2 years. They are actively investing in Media and Entertainment industry. Media and entertainment is a large sector that includes music, movies, theatre, dating and sex industry, gambling, event management, photofraphy, publishing, cirtual reality, and graphic design.

Amount of funding rounds in Media and Entertainment is 17, which is 3.3% of the total amount of Seed rounds in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 2 years.

Top 13 investors in North Africa and the Middle East that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Media and Entertainment industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Israel which hosts 6 funds. There are also funds from United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Lebanon. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tel Aviv and Herzliya which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Dubai and Beirut. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Turkey, Israel, 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.
  • Industry Focus - The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Medical Service, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2000 and the newest one in 2020. In 2014 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2019 was the peak for successful exits. 2020, 2018, and 2017 are the runner ups.
  • 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 2, the maximum is 312. Average number of funding rounds is 63.3 while median is 17.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 43. Average amount of lead investments is 8.8 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 -71.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.5 and the median is 10.69. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 - 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 - 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 1 - 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 7.27 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 1.73 and median is 0.93. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.