Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Civil Engineering industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 20 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Eastern Asia that have invested in Early stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Civil Engineering industry.
Civil Engineering deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the built environment. It includes architecture and construction, green and smart buildings and cities, and home renovation.

Amount of money raised in Civil Engineering funding rounds is $839.7M, which is 1.4% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Civil Engineering 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 16 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. There is an equal amount of VCs in Beijing and Shanghai which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Tokyo and Shenzhen. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from The United States, Japan, and The United Kingdom. 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 Telecommunications, Enterprise Software and Bio & Nano Technology.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1858 and the newest one in 2017. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 9 VCs. 2020, 2019 and 2015 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2011 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 620. Average number of funding rounds is 157.2 while median is 108.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 31.1 while median is 10.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 2. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -27.25 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 9.59 and the median is 13.28. 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 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 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 19.05 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 3.06 and median is 0.74. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.