Top 20 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Mobile industry over the recent years

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 over the last 3 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 $650.5M, which is 22.0% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 3 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – There are a couple of leading countries in the result. They are Estonia, Hungary and Poland. They host 6 VCs each. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tallinn and Budapest which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Warsaw and Sofia. VCs in the sample invest in Poland, Hungary and Estonia more often than they do in Bulgaria. 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 Mobile/Apps.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2019. In 2018 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2018 was the peak for successful exits. 2020, 2021, and 2017 are the runner ups.
• 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 3, the maximum is 350. Average number of funding rounds is 40.9 while median is 15.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 19. Average amount of lead investments is 4.7 while median is 3.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. 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 4.26 and the median is 16.5. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Seed stages are more common for funds in the sample. Late and Venture stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 135.63 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 8.24 and median is 0.08. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.