Top 6 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in EdTech industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 6 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Australia and Oceania that have invested in Early stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in EdTech industry.

Amount of money raised in EdTech funding rounds is $107.1M, which is 6.1% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Australia and Oceania over the last 4 years.

Top 6 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in EdTech industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in Australia while others are in New Zealand. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Australia, but also invest in startups from The United States and Panama. For half 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 EdTech, Real Estate and E-Commerce Platforms.
• Important Years – 2016 is the year when the most amount of the funds from the sample were founded. Some other popular years are 2017, 2014, and 2012. 2019 holds the most deals for 3 VCs. 2018 and 2017 were fruitful for other funds.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 or in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 31. Average number of funding rounds is 14.5 while median is 12.5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -43.73 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -7.31 and the median is -5.72. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors, less often in rounds with 3 – 4 or 7 – 8 investors. The most common average round size for these funds is less than 100 thousands. Other common ranges are 5 – 10 million and 1 – 5 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 0.51, 0.41 and 0.17 are less common.