Top 20 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Information Technology 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 in Seed stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Information Technology industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Central-Eastern Europe is $45.9M, which is 0.7% of the total amount of money raised in the Information Technology industry in Seed rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Information Technology 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 Poland, Estonia and Hungary. They host 6 VCs each. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tallinn, Warsaw and Budapest which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Vilnius. VCs tend to invest in startups from Poland, but also invest in startups from Hungary, Estonia, 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 Information Technology, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1995 and the newest one in 2019. In 2016 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, 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 1, the maximum is 176. Average number of funding rounds is 30.7 while median is 12.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 44. Average amount of lead investments is 7.2 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 -13.83 and the median is -4.33. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is -71.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3, 3 – 4 or 4 – 5 investors. The majority of funds have an average round size of less than 100 thousands. Others have 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.89 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.15 and median is 0.0. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.