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 in Seed stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Media and Entertainment industry. Media and entertainment is a large sector that includes music, movies, theatre, dating and sex industry, gambling, event management, photofraphy, publishing, cirtual reality, and graphic design.

Amount of Seed funding rounds is 171, which is 22.5% of the total amount of rounds in the Media and Entertainment industry in Eastern Asia over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia that took part in the most Seed funding rounds in Media and Entertainment industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among the top VCs is China which hosts 10 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Shanghai, Shenzhen and Seoul. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan, South Korea, and The United States. 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, Telecommunications and Entertainment.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 and the newest one in 2018. In 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 8 VCs. 2019, 2015 and 2017 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2011 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Funds equally often participate in 2 and 24 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 16, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 212.8 while median is 139.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 34.9 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -11.97 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 13.37 and the median is 18.43. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 - 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 - 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100 thousands - 1 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 347.28 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 26.49 and median is 0.1. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.