Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Entertainment 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 America that have invested in Early stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Entertainment industry.

Amount of funding rounds in Entertainment is 373, which is 6.8% of the total amount of Early rounds in North America over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Entertainment industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. VCs are spread equally among California and New York and they host 9 funds each. There are also funds from Washington and Illinois. The most common city is New York which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Menlo Park and Seattle. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom and Panama. 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 Gamification, Business Development and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1996 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, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6, 24 or in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 239.6 while median is 126.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 82.6 while median is 24.5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.88 and the median is 3.5. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is -21.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4, 2 – 3 or 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 – 50 million or 1 – 5 million, more often than less than 100 thousands or 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.36 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.33 and median is 0.22. The most common multiplicator value is 0.21.