Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Family & Home Services 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 Family & Home Services industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $4.1B, which is 17.0% of the total amount of money raised in the Family & Home Services industry in Early rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Family & Home Services industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in Japan while others are in China. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 13 funds. There are also funds from Shanghai, Wuxi and Hong Kong Island. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also invest in startups from The United States and China. 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 Banking. They also invest in Telecommunications, Social Network and Manufacturing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1974 and the newest one in 2018. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2001 to 2019. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12, 2 or in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 285. Average number of funding rounds is 78.0 while median is 58.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 16. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 203. Average amount of lead investments is 26.1 while median is 9.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.9 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 7.17 and the median is 8.92. 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, 2 – 3 or 1 – 2 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 100 thousands – 1 million, 10 – 50 million and 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.46 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.09 and median is 0.01. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.