Top 20 investors in North Africa and the Middle East with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Security 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 North Africa and the Middle East that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Security industry.

Amount of money raised in Security funding rounds is $196.5M, which is 17.5% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North Africa and the Middle East with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Security industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in Israel while others are in Turkey. The most common city is Tel Aviv which is home to 15 funds. There are also funds from Jerusalem, Herzliya and Sisli. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Israel, but also invest in startups from The United States and Canada. 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 Security, Business Development and Autonomous Vehicles.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1961 and the newest one in 2017. In 1993 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2002 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 or in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 112. Average number of funding rounds is 26.7 while median is 17.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 53. Average amount of lead investments is 11.3 while median is 9.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. 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 -1.44 and the median is -2.0. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 2 – 3, 3 – 4 or 4 – 5 investors more often than 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 100 thousands – 1 million, 10 – 50 million and 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.82 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.16 and median is 0.08. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.