Top 18 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Social industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 18 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 Social industry.
Social is about solving cultural and social issues. It includes public safety, government, politics, religion, and LGBT.

Amount of money raised in Social funding rounds is $763.5M, which is 1.1% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 2 years.

Top 18 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Social industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among the top VCs is China which hosts 10 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tokyo and Beijing which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Shanghai and Seoul. These VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from The United States and Japan. 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 Telecommunications, Autonomous Vehicles and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2016. In 2006 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 8 VCs. 2019, 2017 and 2016 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2005 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 and in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 26, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 215.7 while median is 140.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 3 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 48.1 while median is 20.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 9. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -32.54 and 25.95 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.5 and the median is 9.79. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 3 – 4 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 5 – 10 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.7 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.15 and median is 0.06. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.