Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Gaming 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 4 years. They are actively investing in Gaming industry.
Gaming is about development, marketing, and monetization of video games. It includes online and offline games for pc and console and eSports.

Amount of money raised in Gaming funding rounds is $2.6B, which is 1.7% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Gaming 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. The most common city is Beijing which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong Island. These VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan 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 Entertainment, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2018. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 12 VCs. 2019, 2017 and 2020 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2009 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 4, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 187.8 while median is 142.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 39.4 while median is 15.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -43.73 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 2.58 and the median is 5.78. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 4 – 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 82.86 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 5.94 and median is 0.94. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.