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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 Late stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in FinTech industry. FinTech refers to the integration of technology into financial services in order to improve their use and delivery to consumers. It includes micro lending, payments, personal finance, and financial software.

Amount of Late funding rounds is 65, which is 25.3% of the total amount of rounds in the FinTech industry in Eastern Asia over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia that took part in the most Late funding rounds in FinTech 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 11 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tokyo and Hong Kong Island which host 8 funds each. There are also funds from Shanghai and Shenzhen. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan, China, and India. For half 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 Telecommunications, Autonomous Vehicles and Manufacturing.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1858 and the newest one in 2019. In 2016 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, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2015 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 - 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 256. Average number of funding rounds is 76.0 while median is 29.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 83. Average amount of lead investments is 16.4 while median is 3.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.3 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 7.74 and the median is 5.91. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds participate in rounds with 4 - 5 or 3 - 4 investors VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 - 50 million or less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 8.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.3 and median is 0.7. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.