Top 7 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Media and Entertainment 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 Central-Eastern Europe that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Media and Entertainment industry.
Media and entertainment is a large sector that includes music, movies, theatre, dating and sex industry, gambling, event management, photofraphy, publishing, cirtual reality, and graphic design.

Amount of money raised in Media and Entertainment funding rounds is $3.9M, which is 0.9% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 4 years.

Top 7 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Media and Entertainment industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Poland which hosts 4 funds. There are also funds from Hungary, Estonia and Croatia. 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, Estonia, and Croatia. The country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide for all the funds.
• Industry Focus – The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Manufacturing, Gamification and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2018. Years with the most deals are 2020 and 2018. 2019 was less fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6, less often it is 350, 50 or 18. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 13. Average amount of lead investments is 6.0 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -40.23 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.76 and the median is 12.33. 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 1 – 2 or 3 – 4 investors. The most common average round size for these funds is less than 100 thousands. Other common range is 100 thousands – 1 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 2.71, 0.59 and 0.12 are less common.