Top 8 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Consumer industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 8 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 Early stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Consumer industry.

Amount of money raised in Consumer funding rounds is $117.7M, which is 5.8% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Australia and Oceania over the last 5 years.

Top 8 investors in Australia and Oceania with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Consumer 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 4 funds. There are also funds from Melbourne 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 Real Estate, Enterprise Software and Business Development.
• Important Years – 2016 is the year when the most amount of the funds from the sample were founded. Some other popular years are 2014, 2017, and 2013. 2019 holds the most deals for 4 VCs. 2020, 2018 and 2015 were also fruitful.
• 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 3, the maximum is 19. Average number of funding rounds is 11.8 while median is 14.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4. 3 funds in the sample have 2 lead investments which is the most common amount. 4, 16 and 12 are found less often. 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 -5.1 and the median is 2.95. 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 4 – 5 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. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 0.13, 2.74 and 0.26 are less common.