Top 9 investors in Australia and Oceania that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Marketing industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 9 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Australia and Oceania that have invested in Early stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Marketing industry.
The purpose of Marketing is to communicate companies’ products to consumers. It includes everything advertising and branding, as well as digital marketing and market research.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 11, which is 23.4% of the total amount of rounds in the Marketing industry in Australia and Oceania over the last 4 years.

Top 9 investors in Australia and Oceania that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Marketing industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in Australia while others are in New Zealand. Headquarters of VCs are located in two cities: Sydney and Auckland with the majority being in Sydney. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Australia, but also invest in startups from The United States and New Zealand. 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 Real Estate, Information Services and Security.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2003 and the newest one in 2016. In 2009 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 3 VCs. 2016, 2015 and 2020 were also fruitful.
• 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 9, the maximum is 154. Average number of funding rounds is 45.1 while median is 33.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 34. Average amount of lead investments is 10.4 while median is 6.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 27.44 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -5.29 and the median is -11.0. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common range is less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.52 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.45 and median is 0.31.