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 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 money raised in Content funding rounds is $300.0B, which is 5.9% of the total amount of money raised over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Content industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common region for top VCs is North America which hosts 15 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and . The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 14 funds. There are also funds from China, Russia and Japan. The most common city is New York which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from Menlo Park, San Francisco and Toronto. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from China and Singapore. 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 Business Development, Telecommunications and Social.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1869 and the newest one in 2017. In 1995 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2014 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2014 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Funds equally often participate in 2 and 7 - 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 11, the maximum is 951. Average number of funding rounds is 220.0 while median is 151.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 276. Average amount of lead investments is 68.5 while median is 28.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -39.75 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -2.68 and the median is -3.22. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Late and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Private Equity and Seed stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 - 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100-500 million. Less common range is 50 - 100 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 128500000.49 and median is 0.91.