Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Central-Eastern Europe that have invested in Early stage over the last 5 years.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $543.4M, which is 31.7% of the total amount of money raised in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - There are a couple of leading countries in the result. They are Poland, Hungary and Estonia. They host 5 VCs each. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tallinn and Budapest which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Warsaw and Vilnius. VCs tend to invest in startups from Poland, but also invest in startups from Estonia, The United States, 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 Banking. They also invest in Manufacturing, Autonomous Vehicles and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2017. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 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, 7 - 12 or in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 162. Average number of funding rounds is 23.8 while median is 12.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 17. Average amount of lead investments is 4.5 while median is 3.5. 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 0.56 and the median is 4.87. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds participate in rounds with 2 - 3 or 1 - 2 investors more often than in rounds with 3 - 4 or 4 - 5 investors. The most common average round size for these funds is less than 100 thousands. Other common ranges are 10 - 50 million and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.57 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.15 and median is 0.0. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.