Western Europe’s Media and Entertainment industry: Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in over the recent 4 years

Intro

In the last 10 years global Entertainment industry have increased in value on more than a half of trillion dollars. Here you can read about the top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Western Europe that have invested in Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Media and Entertainment industry.
Media and entertainment is a large sector that includes music, movies, theatre, dating and sex industry, gambling, event management, photography, publishing, virtual reality, and graphic design.

Amount of money raised in Media and Entertainment funding rounds is $298.3M, which is 2.5% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Western Europe over the last 4 years.

Western Europe’s Media and Entertainment industry: Top 20 investors in Western Europe with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in over the recent 4 years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Switzerland which hosts 6 funds. There are also funds from The United Kingdom, Spain and France. The most common city is London which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Zürich, Paris and Madrid. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United Kingdom and Spain. They also invest in Germany and France. For the majority of the funds, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide.
• Industry Focus – Although the funds’ most common field for investments is Finance, some of their investments flow in Gamification, Autonomous Vehicles and Industrial.
• Important Years – With the difference in 37 years the oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1982 and the newest one in 2019. Most funds were founded in 2015. Most deals were made by VCs in the sample the in the period from 2014 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 brought the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2012 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Per year VCs usually take part in 2 funding rounds , sometimes in 7 – 12. While the minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 12, the maximum is 554. Average number of funding rounds is 130.2 while median is 65.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 167. Average amount of lead investments is 33.0 while median is 13.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -33.96 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -0.41 and the median is -7.43. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100 thousands – 1 million. Less common range is less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 11.56 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.7 and median is 0.24. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.