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The top 15 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Australia and Oceania that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Mobile industry. Mobile industry includes mobile payments, mobile apps, and app discovery.

Amount of money raised in Mobile funding rounds is $46.2M, which is 10.8% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Australia and Oceania over the last 4 years.

Top 15 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Mobile industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The majority of VCs are located in Australia while others are in New Zealand. The most common city is Sydney which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from Auckland, Melbourne and Brisbane. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Australia, but also invest in startups from New Zealand and The United States. The country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide for all the funds.
  • Industry Focus - The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Gamification, Information Services and Business Development.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1911 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 2012 to 2020. For some funds, 2017 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2007 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2021 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • 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 7, the maximum is 177. Average number of funding rounds is 46.8 while median is 36.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 39. Average amount of lead investments is 10.1 while median is 7.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -41.83 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -1.47 and the median is 2.33. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 - 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 1 - 2 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 - 50 million or 100 thousands - 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 5.28 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 1.26 and median is 0.07. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.