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The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Central-Eastern Europe that have invested over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry. Artificial intelligence is a frontier research discipline to build computerized systems that perform tasks requiring human intelligence. It includes facial, speech and image recognition, machine learning, and natural language processing, as well as computer vision, visual search, and internet of things.

Amount of funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence is 163, which is 14.3% of the total amount of rounds in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Central-Eastern Europe that took part in the most funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Poland which hosts 7 funds. There are also funds from Estonia, Hungary and Lithuania. The most common city is Tallinn which is home to 5 funds. There are also funds from Warsaw, Budapest and Vilnius. VCs tend to invest in startups from Poland, but also invest in startups from Estonia, Hungary, and Lithuania. 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 Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2018. In 2018 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2020 and 2019. 2014 and 2018 were less fruitful.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 and in 2 - 6 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 350. Average number of funding rounds is 51.4 while median is 21.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 44. Average amount of lead investments is 8.6 while median is 4.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -59.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.98 and the median is 8.39. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Seed and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Venture and Late stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 - 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. The most common average round size for these funds is less than 100 thousands. Other common range is 100 thousands - 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 2.5 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.37 and median is 0.07. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.