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 Financial Services industry. Financial services are provided to people and companies. It includes accounting, audit, and tax services, as well as asset management, investment and financing advisory, and brokerage.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $3.2B, which is 16.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Financial Services industry in Eastern Asia over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Financial Services 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 13 funds. There are also funds from South Korea and Japan. There is an equal amount of VCs in Hong Kong Island and Beijing which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Tokyo and Seoul. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from The United States, South Korea, and Japan. 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 Business Development, Legal and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1998 and the newest one in 2017. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2019 and 2018. 2020 and 2021 were less fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2015 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2017 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 and in 7 - 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 167.0 while median is 122.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 34. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 113. Average amount of lead investments is 36.6 while median is 24.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.0 and 27.33 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 6.66 and the median is 2.44. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 17.24.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds participate in rounds with 4 - 5 or 3 - 4 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 - 50 million. Less common range is 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 22.33 and median is 1.24. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.