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The top 17 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in South Asia that have invested in Early stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Business Development industry. Business Development is all about helping a business to grow. It includes consulting, business processes outsourcing, subscription services, and so on.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 28, which is 29.8% of the total amount of rounds in the Business Development industry in South Asia over the last 2 years.

Top 17 investors in South Asia that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Business Development industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - All VCs are located in India. The most common city is Mumbai which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: India and The United States with the majority investing in India. 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 Enterprise Software, Consumer and Business Development.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2000 and the newest one in 2017. In 2000 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, 2020 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • 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 4, the maximum is 280. Average number of funding rounds is 96.4 while median is 69.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 84. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 3 and maximum is 122. Average amount of lead investments is 35.6 while median is 25.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -47.19 and 13.31 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -15.4 and the median is -14.65. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • 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 less than 100 thousands or 5 - 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 3.04 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.43 and median is 0.18. The most common multiplicator value is 0.18.