Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Hardware/Electronics industry 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 Eastern Asia that have invested in Early stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Hardware/Electronics industry.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $18.2B, which is 55.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Hardware/Electronics industry in Eastern Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Hardware/Electronics industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in China while others are in Japan. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 9 funds. There are also funds from Beijing, Shanghai and Zhongshan. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: China and Japan with the majority investing in China. 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 Real Estate, Telecommunications and Social Network.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1970 and the newest one in 2016. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12, 2 – 6, and 13 – 24 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 424. Average number of funding rounds is 132.0 while median is 113.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 203. Average amount of lead investments is 45.9 while median is 31.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -38.44 and 27.24 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -0.12 and the median is -0.54. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4, 4 – 5 or 6 – 7 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 10 – 50 million, 100-500 million and 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.12 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.18 and median is 0.09. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.