Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of 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 over the last 3 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 Content funding rounds is $212.2B, which is 10.3% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in North America over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of 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 New York which is home to 9 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Menlo Park and Toronto. 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 Business Development, Real Estate and Social.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2014. In 2009 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2019 and 2013 hold the biggest amount of successful exits. 2018 and 2016 are the runner ups.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 24 and 7 – 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 296.9 while median is 197.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 89.0 while median is 55.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 27. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -54.33 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -4.58 and the median is -5.04. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Late and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Private Equity and Seed stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 6 – 7 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.09 at minimum and 5627800000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 462265000.43 and median is 1.16. The most common multiplicator value is 600000000.0.