Top 17 investors in North Africa and the Middle East that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Education industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 17 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 Education industry.
Education provides instruction and training on a wide variety of subjects. It includes primary, higher and secondary education, language learning, and edutainment, as well as EdTech and educational and training services.

Amount of Seed funding rounds is 24, which is 53.3% of the total amount of rounds in the Education industry in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 2 years.

Top 17 investors in North Africa and the Middle East that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Education industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Turkey which hosts 6 funds. There are also funds from United Arab Emirates, Israel and Egypt. There is an equal amount of VCs in Istanbul and Dubai which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Tel Aviv and Cairo. VCs in the sample usually invest in Turkey and The United States. They also invest in United Arab Emirates and Egypt. 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, Entertainment and Mobile/Apps.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1988 and the newest one in 2020. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• 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 5, the maximum is 312. Average number of funding rounds is 44.4 while median is 18.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 16. Average amount of lead investments is 4.6 while median is 2.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -26.56 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 15.48 and the median is 23.55. 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 2 – 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands and 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 4.93 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.88 and median is 0.08. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.