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The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Eastern Asia that have invested in Early stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Delivery industry. Delivery covers moving goods or packages to customers. Besides the delivery services themselves it includes packaging and courier services and shipping.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 64, which is 30.6% of the total amount of rounds in the Delivery industry in Eastern Asia over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Delivery industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among the top VCs is China which hosts 12 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. There is an equal amount of VCs in Beijing, Hong Kong Island and Tokyo which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Seoul. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan, The United States, and South Korea. 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 Business Development, Mobile/Apps and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2016. In 2014 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 8 VCs. 2019, 2017 and 2015 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2009 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Funds equally often participate in 2 and 7 - 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13, the maximum is 527. Average number of funding rounds is 129.2 while median is 84.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 123. Average amount of lead investments is 23.7 while median is 11.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 9. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -47.92 and 26.78 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -1.88 and the median is 3.75. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funding rounds with these VCs have 2 - 3 or 4 - 5 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 21.57 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.41 and median is 0.17. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.