Top 20 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in South Asia that have invested over the last 5 years.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in South Asia is $25.5B, which is 1.4% of the total amount of money raised over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in India. The most common city is Mumbai which is home to 10 funds. There are also funds from Bangalore, New Delhi and Chennai. These VCs tend to invest in startups from India, but also invest in startups from The United States and Canada. 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 Enterprise Software, Information Technology and Consumer.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2016. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2, 7 – 12 or in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 169. Average number of funding rounds is 49.2 while median is 28.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 23. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 3 and maximum is 122. Average amount of lead investments is 32.4 while median is 16.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 7. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 7.95 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -24.47 and the median is -24.15. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Early stage. Seed, Late and Private Equity stages are less common. Funds participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 3 – 4 investors more often than in rounds with 4 – 5 or 1 – 2 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 – 50 million, less than 100 thousands or 1 – 5 million more often than 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.02 at minimum and 3.04 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.55 and median is 0.26. The most common multiplicator value is 0.11.