Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia that took part in the most funding rounds in Information Services industry over the recent years

Intro

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 over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Information Services industry.
Information services create, manage, and deliver information. It includes cloud computing, systems and information management, and IT consulting and outsourcing.

Amount of funding rounds in Information Services is 468, which is 4.0% of the total amount of rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia that took part in the most funding rounds in Information Services 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 17 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. The most common city is Beijing which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Shanghai, Hong Kong Island and Xuhui. 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 Gamification, Enterprise Software and Entertainment.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2017. In 2006 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 14 VCs. 2019, 2020 and 2017 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2009 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 and in 13 – 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 17, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 231.0 while median is 168.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 51.1 while median is 38.0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -29.82 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.04 and the median is 5.19. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Early stage. Seed, Late and Private Equity stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs have 3 – 4 or 4 – 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 5 – 10 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 225500000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 20472222.4 and median is 0.18. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.