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The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Western Europe that have invested in Early stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Lifestyle industry. Lifestyle seeks to inspire, guide, and motivate people. It includes wellness and sports, travel and outdoors, and fashion and beauty, as well as nightclub, clothing, art, and family.

Amount of funding rounds in Lifestyle is 379, which is 13.3% of the total amount of Early rounds in Western Europe over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Lifestyle industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - There are a couple of leading countries in the result. They are The United Kingdom, Germany and France. They host 6 VCs each. There is an equal amount of VCs in London and Paris which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Munich and Stockholm. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, The United Kingdom, Germany and France. 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Mobile/Apps and Medical Service.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1972 and the newest one in 2016. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2012 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2010 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 26, the maximum is 593. Average number of funding rounds is 219.5 while median is 200.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 167. Average amount of lead investments is 58.4 while median is 55.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 23. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -23.17 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -0.12 and the median is -0.93. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds participate in rounds with 4 - 5 or 3 - 4 investors VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million or 10 - 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 12.31 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.85 and median is 3.93. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.