Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Information 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 4 years. They are actively investing in Information Services industry.
Information services create, manage, and deliver information. It includes cloud computing, systems and information management, and IT consulting and outsourcing.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $6.0B, which is 12.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Information Services industry in Eastern Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Information Services 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 12 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tokyo and Beijing which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Shanghai and Hong Kong Island. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan, The United States, and Israel. 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 Medical Service, Hardware/Electronics and Entertainment.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1973 and the newest one in 2016. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2006 and 2019 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 13, the maximum is 620. Average number of funding rounds is 185.0 while median is 133.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 76. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 41.6 while median is 14.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.3 and 27.41 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 9.01 and the median is 14.52. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 50 – 100 million and 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 200000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 27150000.15 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.