Top 15 investors in South Asia that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Delivery industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 15 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in South Asia that have invested in Seed 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 funding rounds in Delivery is 17, which is 1.6% of the total amount of Seed rounds in South Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 15 investors in South Asia that took part in the most Seed 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 home to 6 funds. There are also funds from New Delhi, Gurgaon and Hyderabad. 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 Banking, Telecommunications and Retail.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 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 2013 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2012 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 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 502. Average number of funding rounds is 92.1 while median is 45.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 75. Average amount of lead investments is 19.5 while median is 17.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -51.0 and 22.71 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -17.94 and the median is -21.0. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is -21.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 1 – 2 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 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 36.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.45 and median is 0.29. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.