Intro

The top 14 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 Late stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Marketing industry. The purpose of Marketing is to communicate companies’ products to consumers. It includes everything advertising and branding, as well as digital marketing and market research.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North Africa and the Middle East is $1.5B, which is 4.6% of the total amount of money raised in the Marketing industry in Late rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 14 investors in North Africa and the Middle East with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Marketing industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among the top VCs is Israel which hosts 10 funds. There are also funds from United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The most common city is Tel Aviv which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Dubai, Jerusalem and Herzliya. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Israel and United Arab Emirates. For 6 funds in the sample, 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 Security, Gamification and Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1993 and the newest one in 2019. In 1993 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2002 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 - 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 212. Average number of funding rounds is 60.9 while median is 44.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 53. Average amount of lead investments is 13.4 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 26.83 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.81 and the median is 1.88. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funding rounds with these VCs have 5 - 6 or 4 - 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 - 50 million. Less common range is less than 100 thousands. 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 14885714.57 and median is 0.17. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.