Top 9 investors in Southeast Asia that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Gaming industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 9 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Southeast Asia that have invested in Seed stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Gaming industry.
Gaming is about development, marketing, and monetization of video games. It includes online and offline games for pc and console and eSports.

Amount of Seed funding rounds is 15, which is 51.7% of the total amount of rounds in the Gaming industry in Southeast Asia over the last 2 years.

Top 9 investors in Southeast Asia that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Gaming industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in Singapore while others are in Philippines. Headquarters of VCs are located in two cities: Central Region and Manila with the majority being in Central Region. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Singapore, but also invest in startups from The United States and India. For 4 funds in the sample, 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 Telecommunications, Entertainment and Transportation.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2006 and the newest one in 2019. In 2013 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2020 and 2019. 2021 and 2015 were less fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 204. Average number of funding rounds is 75.3 while median is 52.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 87. Average amount of lead investments is 19.2 while median is 11.0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -3.81 and the median is 4.78. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – No grouping tendencies in the amount of investors in the funding rounds were found in this sample. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands – 1 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 1.82 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.7 and median is 0.42.