Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Hospitality 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 Hospitality industry.
Hospitality includes lodging, food and drink service, and tourism. It includes hotels and leisure, resorts, and restaurants.

Amount of money raised in Hospitality funding rounds is $1.3B, which is 1.8% 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 Hospitality industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located either in China or Japan. There are also funds from South Korea. There is an equal amount of VCs in Hong Kong Island and Tokyo which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Beijing and Shanghai. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan, The United States, and South Korea. 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, Telecommunications and Mobile/Apps.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1974 and the newest one in 2018. In 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2015 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2009 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2009 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 1, the maximum is 620. Average number of funding rounds is 151.4 while median is 94.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 34.0 while median is 19.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -32.54 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 8.95 and the median is 12.17. 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 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 143000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 12889473.85 and median is 0.17. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.