Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Digital Media 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 Seed stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Digital Media industry.

Amount of money raised in Digital Media funding rounds is $913.0M, which is 3.1% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in North America over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Digital Media 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 9 funds. There are also funds from New York, Washington and Virginia. The most common city is New York which is home to 5 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Monica. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Panama with the majority investing in 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 Banking. They also invest in Consumer, Business Development and Information Technology.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2005 and the newest one in 2019. In 2013 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, 2014 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, sometimes in 7 – 12 and in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 1317. Average number of funding rounds is 140.5 while median is 64.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 33.0 while median is 6.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -11.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 15.07 and the median is 22.47. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• 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 thousands – 1 million, less than 100 thousands or 1 – 5 million more often than 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.95 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.31 and median is 0.22. The most common multiplicator value is 0.07.