Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Content 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Content industry.
Content is for creating and managing content. It includes content creators and creative agencies, discovery and delivery networks, and content management systems.

Amount of money raised in Content funding rounds is $4.3B, which is 2.1% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 5 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located either in Japan or China. There are also funds from South Korea. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Shanghai, Seoul and Beijing. VCs in the sample invest in Japan and China more often than they do in The United States. 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 Mobile/Apps, Enterprise Software and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1858 and the newest one in 2015. In 2012 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. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2009 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 and in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 15, the maximum is 620. Average number of funding rounds is 149.0 while median is 99.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 15. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 31.8 while median is 17.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -17.28 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 9.17 and the median is 11.2. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 143000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 17340000.16 and median is 0.08. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.