Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Content 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 Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Content industry.

Amount of funding rounds in Content is 479, which is 3.9% of the total amount of Seed rounds in North America over the last 4 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in The United States while others are in Canada. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Palo Alto, Toronto and Santa Monica. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama 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 Information Technology, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2019. In 2012 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2015 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 24, 13 – 24, and 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 12, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 236.6 while median is 110.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 49.6 while median is 11.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -35.0 and 28.68 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 13.49 and the median is 19.1. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs usually have 4 – 5, 3 – 4, 2 – 3 or 1 – 2 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 0.82 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.27 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.