Top 11 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Information Services industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 11 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 Seed stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Information Services industry.

Amount of money raised in Information Services funding rounds is $11.4M, which is 1.3% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in South Asia over the last 5 years.

Top 11 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Information Services industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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 Bangalore, Hyderabad and New Delhi. Top-1 investment geofocus for all VCs is India. The country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide for all the funds.
• Industry Focus – The funds’ most common field for investments is Banking. They also invest in Enterprise Software, EdTech and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2006 and the newest one in 2016. In 2006 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2015 to 2020. For some funds, 2016 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 and in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 and in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 95. Average number of funding rounds is 40.6 while median is 49.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 51. Average amount of lead investments is 19.9 while median is 11.0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -38.16 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -5.73 and the median is -4.33. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors, less often in rounds with 1 – 2 or 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 100 thousands – 1 million, 5 – 10 million and 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 3.04 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.54 and median is 0.17. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.