Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia that took part in the most funding rounds in Virtual Currency 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 Virtual Currency industry.
Virtual currency is an electronic representation of value and can be traded or used as payment. It includes cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and etherium.

Amount of funding rounds in Virtual Currency is 215, which is 1.8% 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 Virtual Currency 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 15 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. There is an equal amount of VCs in Hong Kong Island, Beijing and Tokyo which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Shanghai. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United States and China. They also invest in Singapore and Japan. For 9 funds in the sample, 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 Legal, Gamification and Autonomous Vehicles.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1998 and the newest one in 2019. In 2017 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2021. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2015 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12 and 2 – 6 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 12, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 117.5 while median is 51.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 17. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 113. Average amount of lead investments is 17.7 while median is 4.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -9.18 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 14.39 and the median is 17.24. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 17.24.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Seed stages are more common for funds in the sample. Late and Initial Coin Offering stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs have 2 – 3 or 4 – 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands – 1 million and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 347.28 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 18.9 and median is 0.3. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.