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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 4 years. They are actively investing in Media and Entertainment industry. Media and entertainment is a large sector that includes music, movies, theatre, dating and sex industry, gambling, event management, photofraphy, publishing, cirtual reality, and graphic design.

Amount of funding rounds in Media and Entertainment is 156, which is 2.7% of the total amount of Early rounds in Western Europe over the last 4 years.

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

  • Funds Geography - The most common countries among top VCs are The United Kingdom and France. They host 5 VCs each. There are also funds from Germany and Switzerland. There is an equal amount of VCs in London and Paris which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Berlin and Zürich. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United States and France. They also invest in The United Kingdom 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 Finance. They also invest in E-Commerce Platforms, Gamification and Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1982 and the newest one in 2017. In 2013 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 7 VCs. 2017, 2020 and 2019 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2012 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 7 - 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 15, the maximum is 593. Average number of funding rounds is 158.6 while median is 78.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 167. Average amount of lead investments is 43.4 while median is 25.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -1.77 and the median is -3.01. 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 The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is 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 3.51 and median is 2.46. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.