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The top 20 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 Late stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Mobile industry. Mobile industry includes mobile payments, mobile apps, and app discovery.

Amount of funding rounds in Mobile is 32, which is 11.8% of the total amount of Late rounds in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North Africa and the Middle East that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Mobile industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Israel which hosts 14 funds. There are also funds from United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The most common city is Tel Aviv which is home to 10 funds. There are also funds from Herzliya, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh. VCs in the sample invest in The United States and Israel more often than they do in India. For 9 funds in the sample, 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, Medical Service and Social.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1971 and the newest one in 2019. In 2008 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2011 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 - 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 312. Average number of funding rounds is 82.0 while median is 44.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 56. Average amount of lead investments is 12.4 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.64 and the median is 7.34. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds participate in rounds with 3 - 4 or 4 - 5 investors VCs in the sample have an average round size of more than 1 billion or 10 - 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 17.42 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.84 and median is 2.5. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.