Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Film/Video/TV 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 Late stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Film/Video/TV industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $5.0B, which is 58.7% of the total amount of money raised in the Film/Video/TV industry in Late rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Late 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 13 funds. There are also funds from New York, Illinois and Connecticut. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco, New York and Menlo Park which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Santa Monica. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, Japan, and China. 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, Telecommunications and Retail.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1965 and the newest one in 2017. In 2011 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 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6, 2 or in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 302. Average number of funding rounds is 91.8 while median is 51.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 48. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 179. Average amount of lead investments is 46.1 while median is 25.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 26. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -51.0 and 23.12 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -7.33 and the median is -2.91. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is 9.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6, 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million or 10 – 50 million, more often than 50 – 100 million or less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 8.56 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 1.0 and median is 0.42.