Top 7 investors in Sub-Saharan Africa with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Health Care 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 Sub-Saharan Africa that have invested over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Health Care industry.
Health care provides medical services, manufactures medical equipment or drugs, and facilitates the provision of healthcare to patients. It includes pharmaceutical and first aid, nursing and residential care, and health diagnostics and medical devices, as well as funeral, rehabilitation, and cannabis.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Sub-Saharan Africa is $161.7M, which is 0.0% of the total amount of money raised in the Health Care industry over the last 4 years.

Top 7 investors in Sub-Saharan Africa with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Health Care industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is South Africa which hosts 3 funds. There are also funds from Nigeria, Mauritius and Kenya. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. There is no investment geofocus for VCs in the sample. All of them invest in startups from different countries. For 3 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 Medical Service, Telecommunications and Mobile/Apps.
• Important Years – 2018 is the year when the most amount of the funds from the sample were founded. Some other popular years are 2011, 2009, and 2006. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 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 2, the maximum is 38. Average number of funding rounds is 15.4 while median is 15.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 12. Average amount of lead investments is 5.3 while median is 5.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -47.92 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -6.93 and the median is -4.33. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Early stage. Seed, Private Equity and Late stages are less common. 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 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. 4.38 and 1.14 are less common.