Top 20 investors in North America that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Film/Video/TV 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 Film/Video/TV industry.

Amount of funding rounds in North America is 187, which is 58.3% of the total amount of Seed rounds in the Film/Video/TV industry over the last 4 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in The United States. California is the most common state for VCs and it hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from New York, Texas and District of Columbia. The most common city is San Francisco which is home to 5 funds. There are also funds from New York, Washington and Santa Monica. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, Spain, and Germany. 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 Business Development, Social and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2000 and the newest one in 2019. In 2005 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 24, 7 – 12, 2 – 6, and in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 212.6 while median is 90.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 49.2 while median is 14.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 12. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -43.0 and 28.68 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.76 and the median is 13.3. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 1 – 2, 2 – 3 or 4 – 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million, more often than 1 – 5 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.81 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.35 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.