Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Digital Media 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 Late stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Digital Media industry.

Amount of money raised in Digital Media funding rounds is $9.8B, which is 2.0% of the total amount of money raised in Late rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Digital Media 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 11 funds. There are also funds from Eastern Asia and Western Europe. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from China, Japan and The United Kingdom. There is an equal amount of VCs in New York and Menlo Park which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Tokyo and Palo Alto. These VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from China and Japan. 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 Telecommunications, Social and Marketing.
• Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1858 and the newest one in 2017. In 2009 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.
• Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 - 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24, 24 or in 7 - 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 302. Average number of funding rounds is 101.7 while median is 45.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 38. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 179. Average amount of lead investments is 43.4 while median is 21.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 6. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -24.49 and 14.71 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -4.72 and the median is -3.42. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 - 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 - 4, 2 - 3 or 6 - 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 50 - 100 million or 100-500 million, more often than 10 - 50 million or 5 - 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.1 at minimum and 2.67 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.66 and median is 0.36. The most common multiplicator value is 0.2.