Top 18 Content industry investors in Eastern Asia in Seed funding rounds

Intro

Content industry is an industry which is responsible for creating and managing video, audio, text and other content, including content creators and creative agencies, discovery and delivery networks, and content management systems. Due to the increasing interconnectivity of the world because of the internet, the demand on Content industry products is growing. Demand and great potential of the Content industry attracts investors and the industry managed to raise $150.6M in Seed funding in Eastern Asia over the last 2 years, which is 2.6% of the total amount of money raised by the industry in this region. The next chart includes 18 most active Eastern Asian investors in the Content industry in Seed stage over the last 2 years.

Top 18 Content industry investors in Eastern Asia in Seed funding rounds
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – Mostly VCs are located in Japan while others are in China. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 10 funds, but, also, such cities as Hong Kong Island, Fukuoka and Beijing are popular for funds` establishment. VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also they invest in startups from China, The United States, and Kenya and in majority of cases funds are investing more frequently in the country of its establishment.
• Industry Focus – Funds mostly invest in Finance, but, also, in Gamification, Telecommunications and Social Network.
• Important Years – Funds are different in their age while the oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 and the newest one in 2019, but in 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 8 VCs. 2020, 2018 and 2017 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 2 – 6 and 2 funding rounds per year, but the minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5 and the maximum is 381. Average number of funding rounds is 104.4 while median is 57.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 18. The minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 101., average amount of lead investments is 15.6 while median is 4.0, but the most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.14 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 11.62 and the median is 13.43. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 7.95.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 3 – 4 investors and the most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands , but less common range is between 100 thousands and 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 200000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 11764705.93 and median is 0.01. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.