Top 17 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Delivery industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 17 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 Early stage over the last 2 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 funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $676.4M, which is 6.5% of the total amount of money raised in the Delivery industry in Early rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 17 investors in Eastern 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 – The majority of VCs are located either in Japan or China. There are also funds from South Korea. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Hong Kong Island, Beijing and Shanghai. VCs in the sample usually invest in Japan and China. They also invest in The United States and South Korea. 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 Business Development, Mobile/Apps and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 and the newest one in 2015. In 2014 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, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2007 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
• 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 13, the maximum is 381. Average number of funding rounds is 126.4 while median is 61.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 101. Average amount of lead investments is 22.9 while median is 9.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -47.92 and 27.41 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.99 and the median is 7.11. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 4 – 5 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is more than 1 billion. 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 21.6 and median is close to zero. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.