Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the 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 Financial Services industry. Financial services are provided to people and companies. It includes accounting, audit, and tax services, as well as asset management, investment and financing advisory, and brokerage.

Amount of money raised in Financial Services funding rounds is $148.2M, which is 9.8% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North Africa and the Middle East with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Financial Services industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Israel which hosts 10 funds. There are also funds from United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Turkey. The most common city is Tel Aviv which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Dubai, Herzliya and Beirut. VCs in the sample invest in The United States, United Arab Emirates and Israel more often than they do in Turkey. 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 Business Development, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1997 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 2013 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2016 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 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 59.4 while median is 35.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 43. Average amount of lead investments is 7.4 while median is 4.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. 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 8.5 and the median is 14.29. 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 have 4 - 5 or 3 - 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 10 - 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 7.89 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.89 and median is close to zero. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.