Top 20 investors in North Africa and the Middle East that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years

Intro

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 Seed stage over the last 5 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 Seed funding rounds is 259, which is 38.3% of the total amount of rounds in the Artificial Intelligence industry in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North Africa and the Middle East that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Israel which hosts 15 funds. There are also funds from United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Egypt. The most common city is Tel Aviv which is home to 11 funds. There are also funds from Herzliya, Dubai and Jerusalem. VCs tend to invest in startups from Israel, but also invest in startups from The United States, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. 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 Autonomous Vehicles.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1993 and the newest one in 2018. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2005 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2007 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 16, the maximum is 312. Average number of funding rounds is 78.8 while median is 48.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 28. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 56. Average amount of lead investments is 10.9 while median is 6.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 8.74 and the median is 14.49. 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 3 – 4 or 1 – 2 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. 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 9.2 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.68 and median is 1.62. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.