Top 9 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Marketing industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 9 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 Seed stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Marketing industry.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $6.1M, which is 21.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Marketing industry in Central-Eastern Europe over the last 2 years.

Top 9 investors in Central-Eastern Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Marketing industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Estonia which hosts 3 funds. There are also funds from Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania. The most common city is Tallinn which is home to 3 funds. There are also funds from Warsaw, Vilnius and Sofia. There is no investment geofocus for VCs in the sample. All of them invest in startups from different countries. 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, Marketplace and Manufacturing.
• Important Years – 1999 is the year when the most amount of the funds from the sample were founded. Some other popular years are 2018, 2012, and 2017. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2020 and 2019. 2018 and 2017 were less fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24 or in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 176. Average number of funding rounds is 44.3 while median is 10.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 44. Average amount of lead investments is 8.3 while median is 4.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -46.0 and 25.86 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 0.58 and the median is 9.0. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is -11.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors, less often 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 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.89 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.28 and median is 0.14. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.