Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of Seed 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 Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Film/Video/TV industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in North America is $381.1M, which is 65.0% of the total amount of money raised in the Film/Video/TV industry in Seed rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in North America with the biggest sum of 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 10 funds. There are also funds from New York, Washington and Virginia. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and San Francisco which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Menlo Park and Oakland. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama 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, Enterprise Software and Consumer.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2018. In 2014 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, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12, 2 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 362. Average number of funding rounds is 64.2 while median is 14.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 127. Average amount of lead investments is 16.8 while median is 4.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -26.56 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 7.78 and the median is 12.71. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 5 – 6 or 3 – 4 investors more often than in rounds with 4 – 5 or 6 – 7 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 10 – 50 million, 100 thousands – 1 million and 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.19 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.22 and median is 0.1. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.