Top 20 investors in Autonomous Vehicles industry

Intro

VC funds and corporate investors in Eastern Asia invested the biggest sum of late funding rounds in autonomous vehicles industry over the last 2 years.

$10.1b is the sum which was raised in late funding rounds. It is 45.6% of the money raised in the autonomous vehicles industry in Eastern Asia for 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Autonomous Vehicles industry
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in China and Japan. Beijing is the most popular city. 7 funds are located there. There are also funds from Shanghai, Hong Kong and Zhongshan. These VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but they also invest in startups from the United Kingdom and Japan. For the half of the funds, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments is the same.
• Industry Focus – Funds willingly invest in banking. But they also don’t mind investing in transportation, telecommunications and manufacturing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1953, the newest one – in 2015. The most amount of funds was founded in 2008. VCs in the sample made the most deals from 2015 to 2021. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – VCs usually take part in 2 and in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year. But it also could be 7 – 12 or even 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 178. The average number of funding rounds is 30.6 (median is 11.0). 2 is the most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 90. The average amount of lead investments is 13.2 (median is 5.5). The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between –48.78 and 29.0 (for funds in the sample). The average value for this difference is –8.75 (median is –8.5). It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is –21.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. But it happens that they take part with up to 9 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million, 50 – 100 million or less than 100 thousands more often than 10 – 50 million. The average multiplicator of the fund for portfolio companies is 0.0 at minimum and 5.42 at maximum (due to the last known valuation).The average value for this multiplicator is 0.81 (median is 0.53). 0.83 is the most common multiplicator value.