Top 8 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Telecommunications 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 Central-Eastern Europe that have invested in Early stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Telecommunications industry.
Telecommunications is about making communication possible. It includes providing cable and internet services, voice and video chatting, internet and communication software and hardware, as well as wireless technologies and NFC.

Amount of money raised in Telecommunications funding rounds is $70.9M, which is 9.2% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 4 years.

Top 8 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Telecommunications 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 3 funds. There are also funds from Estonia, Lithuania and Hungary. 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 The United Kingdom, Hungary, and Finland. 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 Medical Service, Gamification and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2017. In 2017 the most amount of funds were founded. 2020 holds the most deals for 4 VCs. 2019, 2018 and 2014 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 9, the maximum is 40. Average number of funding rounds is 19.1 while median is 17.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 15. Average amount of lead investments is 5.2 while median is 3.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. 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 2.75 and the median is 3.6. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors. The majority of funds have an average round size of less than 100 thousands. Others have 10 – 50 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 1.57, 0.59 and 0.2 are less common.