Intro

The top 13 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Southeast Asia that have invested in Seed stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Media and Entertainment industry. Media and entertainment is a large sector that includes music, movies, theatre, dating and sex industry, gambling, event management, photofraphy, publishing, cirtual reality, and graphic design.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $19.1M, which is 1.5% of the total amount of money raised in the Media and Entertainment industry in Southeast Asia over the last 3 years.

Top 13 investors in Southeast Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Media and Entertainment industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among the top VCs is Singapore which hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from Philippines and Malaysia. The most common city is Central Region which is a home to 11 funds. There are also funds from Manila and Kuala Lumpur. VCs tend to invest in startups from Singapore, but also invest in startups from The United States, Philippines, and Malaysia. 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 Entertainment, Social and Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2003 and the newest one in 2019. In 2016 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2019 was the peak for successful exits. 2021, 2020, and 2017 are the runner ups.
  • 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 1, the maximum is 424. Average number of funding rounds is 84.0 while median is 44.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 87. Average amount of lead investments is 20.2 while median is 13.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -11.21 and the median is 9.0. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is -71.0.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 - 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 - 50 million or 100 thousands - 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 7.61 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 1.19 and median is 0.07. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.