Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Financial Services 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 3 years. They are actively investing in Financial Services industry.
Financial services are provided to people and companies. It includes accounting, audit, and tax services, as well as asset management, investment and financing advisory, and brokerage.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $5.7B, which is 16.2% of the total amount of money raised in the Financial Services industry in Eastern Asia over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Financial 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 14 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tokyo and Beijing which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Shanghai and Hong Kong Island. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan, The United States, and South Korea. 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 Business Development, Enterprise Software and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1978 and the newest one in 2016. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2019 and 2018. 2020 and 2017 were less fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2014 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 3, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 204.4 while median is 169.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 47.4 while median is 36.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.3 and 27.41 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.93 and the median is 2.41. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 4 – 5 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 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 63.55 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 6.08 and median is 2.46. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.