Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Content 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 Seed stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Content industry.

Amount of money raised in Content funding rounds is $1.4B, which is 3.6% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors with the biggest sum of Seed 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 Eastern Asia which hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from North America, Western Europe, and Latin America. The most common country among top VCs is Japan which hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from The United States, France and Portugal. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 9 funds. There are also funds from San Francisco, Paris and Fukuoka. VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also invest in startups from The United States, France, 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 Banking. They also invest in Real Estate, Business Development and Social Network.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1970 and the newest one in 2017. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24, 2 – 6 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 247. Average number of funding rounds is 101.3 while median is 75.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 166. Average amount of lead investments is 34.8 while median is 15.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -24.57 and 27.24 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.53 and the median is 3.56. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors more often than in rounds with 4 – 5 or 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 1 – 5 million or less than 100 thousands, more often than 100 thousands – 1 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.96 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.18 and median is 0.08. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.