Intro

The top 10 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in South Asia that have invested in Early stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in IT Infrastructure industry. IT infrastructure refers to the software, hardware, network resources, and services associated with the management information technology environment. It includes technical support, data center, and IaaS.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $938.6M, which is 73.0% of the total amount of money raised in the IT Infrastructure industry in South Asia over the last 5 years.

Top 10 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in IT Infrastructure industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - All VCs are located in India. The most common city is Mumbai which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from New Delhi, Gurgaon and Cochin. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: India and The United States with the majority investing in India. 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 Industrial, Social and Medical Service.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2000 and the newest one in 2013. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2020. For some funds, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7, the maximum is 248. Average number of funding rounds is 99.1 while median is 83.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 3 and maximum is 117. Average amount of lead investments is 30.7 while median is 17.5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.26 and 15.59 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -6.31 and the median is -9.12. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 or 2 - 3 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 1 - 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.07 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.3 and median is 0.13. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.