Top 20 investors in South Asia that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in the Entertainment industry

Intro

The entertainment industry informally is known as show business. It is one of the biggest industries in the world, and is currently worth $2 trillion.The entertainment industry is an enormous consumer powerhouse.It consists of music, television, theatre, dance, film, fine art, opera, radio, literary publishing and even video games.

Traditionally the entertainment industry has been a creative industry following technology innovations and consumer demands. By its nature, the industry is extremely dependent on markets, cultures, languages and consumer segments. We have, however, witnessed content that have connected not only the language barrier, but also worked across segments internationally. The entertainment industry is also unique due to its psychological, emotional and aspirational appeal to its customers. Quality and acceptance become extremely subjective to each individual. The new age consumer not only demands what they like, but also in the format they like, additionally, they also want to customize the content to their preferences.

Investors, mentioned in this article, willingly insert money into the Entertainment industry are from South Asia. They are the top 20, according to the total amount of funding rounds. These investors in have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years.

Amount of funding rounds in South Asia is 48, which is 3.3% of the total amount of Seed rounds in the Entertainment industry over the last 4 years.

Venture Highway is one of the biggest investors in the entertainment industry from Asia. They help entrepreneurs on early stage. They unite with the next generation of entrepreneurs by providing guidance and capital to early stage of implementing  ideas in technology.

Top 20 investors in South Asia that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in the Entertainment industry
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in India. The most common city is Mumbai . It is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Bangalore, New Delhi and Gurgaon. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: India and The United States. Still the majority invest in India. Not surprisingly, that the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments is the same.
• Industry Focus – The funds’ most common field for investments is Banking. They also don’t mind investing in EdTech, Social and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 while the newest one in 2019. The most amount of funds were founded in 2015. 2019 holds the most deals for 10 VCs. 2018, 2020 and 2015 were also quite fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2, 7 – 12 or even 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 169. Average number of funding rounds is 43.2 (median is 22.0). The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 122. Average amount of lead investments is 27.6 (median is 11.0). The most common amount of lead investments is 8. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -47.19 and 20.67 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -17.23 and the median is -19.13. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is 4.0.
• Typical Rounds – Usually, funds participate in rounds with from 1 to 3 investors more often than in rounds with 3 to 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 10 – 50 million, 5 – 10 million and 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.74 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.18 and median is 0.03. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.