Top 7 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Agriculture industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 7 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 Seed stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Agriculture industry.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $26.0M, which is 88.3% of the total amount of money raised in the Agriculture industry in Australia and Oceania over the last 2 years.

Top 7 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Agriculture industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in Australia. The most common city is Sydney which is a home to 5 funds. There are also funds from Paddington and Brisbane. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: Australia and The United States with the majority investing in Australia. 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 Agriculture, Social and Real Estate.
• Important Years – 2014 is the year when the most amount of the funds from the sample were founded. Some other popular years are 2017, 2009, and 2004. 2017 holds the most deals for 4 VCs. 2019, 2016 and 2015 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12 or in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 9, the maximum is 120. Average number of funding rounds is 36.4 while median is 28.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 3 and maximum is 38. Average amount of lead investments is 14.9 while median is 16.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -43.73 and 18.47 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -7.75 and the median is -0.69. 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 1 – 2 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 5 – 10 million, 100 thousands – 1 million and 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 2.27 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.54 and median is 0.41.