Intro

The top 7 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Central-Eastern Europe that have invested in Early stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Education industry. Education provides instruction and training on a wide variety of subjects. It includes primary, higher and secondary education, language learning, and edutainment, as well as EdTech and educational and training services.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 8, which is 16.3% of the total amount of rounds in the Education industry in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 5 years.

Top 7 investors in Central-Eastern Europe that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Education industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among the top VCs is Poland which hosts 3 funds. There are also funds from Hungary and Estonia. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. VCs tend to invest in startups from Poland, but also invest in startups from Hungary, Finland, and Estonia. 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 Finance. They also invest in Gamification, Business Development and Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2016. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2021. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 - 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 350. Average number of funding rounds is 65.9 while median is 16.0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -33.5 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 10.72 and the median is 16.5. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 or 2 - 3 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 5 - 10 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 2.18, 0.2 and 0.08 are less common.