Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Content 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 America that have invested in Early stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Content industry.
Content is for creating and managing content. It includes content creators and creative agencies, discovery and delivery networks, and content management systems.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $14.3B, which is 6.0% of the total amount of money raised in the Content industry in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Content 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 14 funds. There are also funds from New York and Massachusetts. The most common city is New York which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Los Angeles. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is The United States. 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 Gamification, Analytics and Medical Service.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2019. In 2009 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2020. For some funds, 2013 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 and in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 264.8 while median is 166.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 65.0 while median is 20.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.98 and the median is 1.65. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common range is 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 99143333.59 and median is 0.25. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.