Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Consumer Goods 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 Western Europe that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Consumer Goods industry.
Consumer goods relate to items purchased by individuals and households rather than by manufacturers. It includes clothing and consumer electronics, hard products, like luxury and sporting goods, soft products, like textiles and paper products, and a variety of other goods like toys, musical instruments and tobacco.

Amount of money raised in Consumer Goods funding rounds is $1.6B, which is 13.1% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Western Europe over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Consumer Goods industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is The United Kingdom which hosts 10 funds. There are also funds from Germany, France and Sweden. The most common city is London which is home to 10 funds. There are also funds from Paris, Berlin and Stockholm. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United Kingdom, but also invest in startups from The United States, France, and Sweden. 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 Consumer, Transportation and Manufacturing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2018. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2008 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2012 and 2019 years. For some funds, 2017 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 7, the maximum is 554. Average number of funding rounds is 111.2 while median is 53.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 108. Average amount of lead investments is 20.0 while median is 11.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -27.25 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 6.17 and the median is 6.47. It means that these funds act as lead investors more 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 less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 91.14 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 6.73 and median is 0.87. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.