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The top 19 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in South Asia that have invested in Late stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Software industry. Software develops, maintains, and publishes software used by people and companies. It includes internet and consumer software, operating systems, and desktop apps, as well as gamification, automation, and SaaS.

Amount of funding rounds in Software is 59, which is 21.0% of the total amount of Late rounds in South Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 19 investors in South Asia that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Software 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 9 funds. There are also funds from Bangalore, Hyderabad and New Delhi. These VCs tend to invest in startups from India, but also invest in startups from The United States and Canada. 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 Entertainment, Enterprise Software and Gamification.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1997 and the newest one in 2017. In 2015 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, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2015 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6, the maximum is 425. Average number of funding rounds is 105.5 while median is 50.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 3 and maximum is 127. Average amount of lead investments is 34.9 while median is 21.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 7. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 5.68 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -18.94 and the median is -15.0. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 - 3 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 22.67 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.2 and median is 0.81. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.