Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Information Services industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Eastern Asia that have invested in Early stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Information Services industry.
Information services create, manage, and deliver information. It includes cloud computing, systems and information management, and IT consulting and outsourcing.

Amount of funding rounds in Eastern Asia is 125, which is 9.8% of the total amount of Early rounds in the Information Services industry over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Information Services industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among the top VCs is China which hosts 15 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. The most common city is Beijing which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong Island. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from The United States, Japan, and Israel. 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 Entertainment, Autonomous Vehicles and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2016. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 13 VCs. 2019 and 2015 were fruitful for other funds. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2008 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 17, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 221.4 while median is 168.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 102. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 47.6 while median is 25.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 6. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -29.82 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.74 and the median is 8.75. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 2 – 3 investors VCs in the sample have an average round size of 5 – 10 million or 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 200000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 30166666.8 and median is 0.18. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.