Top 10 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Delivery industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 10 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 Seed stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Delivery industry.
Delivery covers moving goods or packages to customers. Besides the delivery services themselves it includes packaging and courier services and shipping.

Amount of money raised in Delivery funding rounds is $49.8M, which is 0.8% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 3 years.

Top 10 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Delivery industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located either in China or Japan. There are also funds from South Korea. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Hong Kong Island, Shenzhen and Seoul. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan, The United States, and Kenya. 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Mobile/Apps and Manufacturing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1953 and the newest one in 2019. In 2011 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.
• 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 12, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 214.2 while median is 123.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 113. Average amount of lead investments is 30.3 while median is 2.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 12.11 and the median is 17.48. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 100 thousands – 1 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 347.28 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 45.94 and median is 0.21. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.