Intro
The top 12 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 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 money raised in Seed funding rounds is $25.5M, which is 1.2% of the total amount of money raised in the Gaming industry in Eastern Asia over the last 2 years.
Top 12 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Gaming industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest
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- Funds Geography - The most common country among the top VCs is Japan which hosts 7 funds. There are also funds from China and South Korea. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 5 funds. There are also funds from Hong Kong Island, Seoul and Saitama. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also invest in startups from China and The United States. 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, Entertainment and Social Network.
- Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 and the newest one in 2017. In 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2019 and 2018. 2021 and 2020 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 2, the maximum is 381. Average number of funding rounds is 140.2 while median is 100.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 101. Average amount of lead investments is 22.2 while median is 13.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -1.97 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 16.43 and the median is 18.43. 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. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands - 1 million. 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 31.74 and median is close to zero. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.