Top 20 investors that took part in the most funding rounds in Content industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors that have invested over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Content industry.
Content is for creating and managing content. It includes content creators and creative agencies, discovery and delivery networks, and content management systems.

Amount of funding rounds in Content is 4925, which is 3.8% of the total amount of rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors that took part in the most funding rounds in Content industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common region for top VCs is North America which hosts 17 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 17 funds. There are also funds from Portugal, Japan and China. There is an equal amount of VCs in San Francisco and Menlo Park which host 4 funds each. There are also funds from Mountain View and Tokyo. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Panama, Japan, and India. 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 Gamification, Entertainment and Bio & Nano Technology.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1976 and the newest one in 2013. In 2010 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, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2013 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 24 and in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 40, the maximum is 1627. Average number of funding rounds is 572.2 while median is 483.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 506. Average amount of lead investments is 128.1 while median is 113.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 113. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -31.14 and 28.29 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.57 and the median is 1.37. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Early stage. Seed, Late and Private Equity stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands – 1 million and 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1186000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 151600000.29 and median is 0.32.