Top 13 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Delivery industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 13 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 4 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 Early funding rounds is $139.2M, which is 11.2% of the total amount of money raised in the Delivery industry in South Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 13 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Delivery 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 a home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Bangalore and Bengaluru. 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 Finance. They also invest in Business Development, Retail and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2000 and the newest one in 2017. 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, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2002 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2017 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 9, the maximum is 502. Average number of funding rounds is 123.3 while median is 48.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 15. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 4 and maximum is 127. Average amount of lead investments is 27.8 while median is 10.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 22.71 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -13.36 and the median is -13.14. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 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 47.73 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 6.21 and median is 1.67. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.