Top 6 investors in North Africa and the Middle East with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Consumer Goods 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 North Africa and the Middle East that have invested in Late stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Consumer Goods industry. Consumer goods relate to items purchased by individuals and households rather than by manufacturers. It includes clothing and consumer electronics, hard products, like luxury and sporting goods, soft products, like textiles and paper products, and a variety of other goods like toys, musical instruments and tobacco.

Amount of money raised in Consumer Goods funding rounds is $1.6B, which is 5.4% of the total amount of money raised in Late rounds in North Africa and the Middle East over the last 5 years.

Top 6 investors in North Africa and the Middle East with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Consumer Goods industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography - The most common country among top VCs is Israel which hosts 3 funds. There are also funds from United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: The United States and Israel with the majority investing in The United States. For 1 funds in the sample, 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 Social, Medical Service and Gamification.
• Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1971 and the newest one in 2017.
• Investments - Average amount of funding rounds per year is 2 for VCs in the sample. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7, the maximum is 297. Average number of funding rounds is 101.2 while median is 36.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 56. Average amount of lead investments is 19.5 while median is 7.5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -0.25 and 19.91 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 8.46 and the median is 7.34. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds - No grouping tendencies in the amount of investors in the funding rounds were found in this sample. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is more than 1 billion. Less common range is 50 - 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 6.67 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 1.94 and median is 1.15.