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 3 years. They are actively investing in Mobile/Apps industry.

Amount of Seed funding rounds is 65, which is 45.8% of the total amount of rounds in the Mobile/Apps industry 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 Seed funding rounds in Mobile/Apps industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Israel which hosts 7 funds. There are also funds from Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Egypt. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tel Aviv, Istanbul and Dubai which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Herzliya. VCs in the sample invest in The United States, Turkey and Israel more often than they do in 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 Banking. They also invest in EdTech, Business Development and Transportation.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1997 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 2011 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 - 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2, 13 - 24 or in 7 - 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 186. Average number of funding rounds is 28.4 while median is 10.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 16. Average amount of lead investments is 4.4 while median is 2.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -46.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.79 and the median is 14.11. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - Funding rounds with these VCs usually have 2 - 3, 1 - 2, 4 - 5 or 3 - 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 100 thousands - 1 million, 1 - 5 million and 50 - 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.98 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.22 and median is 0.11. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.