Top 8 investors in Australia and Oceania that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Software Engineering industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 8 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Australia and Oceania that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Software Engineering industry.

Amount of funding rounds in Australia and Oceania is 9, which is 0.8% of the total amount of Seed rounds in the Software Engineering industry over the last 4 years.

Top 8 investors in Australia and Oceania that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Software Engineering industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in Australia. Headquarters of VCs are located in two cities: Sydney and Melbourne with the majority being in Sydney. 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 Security, Telecommunications and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2004 and the newest one in 2017. In 2017 the most amount of funds were founded.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 or in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 120. Average number of funding rounds is 31.0 while median is 14.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 38. Average amount of lead investments is 11.8 while median is 10.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 16. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -43.73 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -3.3 and the median is -0.13. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors, less often in rounds with 2 – 3 or 3 – 4 investors. The most common average round size for these funds is less than 100 thousands. Other common ranges are 100 thousands – 1 million and 1 – 5 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 2.27, 0.44 and 0.26 are less common.