Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Film/Video/TV 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 that have invested in Early stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Film/Video/TV industry.

Amount of money raised in Film/Video/TV funding rounds is $2.9B, which is 0.7% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Film/Video/TV 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 12 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 12 funds. There are also funds from China, France and Germany. The most common city is New York which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Paris and Hangzhou. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from China, France, and Panama. 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 Banking. They also invest in Enterprise Software, Analytics and Cloud Computing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2016. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12, 2 or in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 255. Average number of funding rounds is 65.9 while median is 38.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 166. Average amount of lead investments is 31.3 while median is 13.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -26.56 and 25.3 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -4.69 and the median is -4.49. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6, 4 – 5 or 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands, 10 – 50 million or 100-500 million more often than 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.55 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.26 and median is 0.08. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.