Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Security 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 3 years. They are actively investing in Security industry.
Security provides manned and technical services and products for the protection of people, premises or property. It includes penetration testing and intrusion detection, cloud and cyber security, and homeland security, as well as privacy, biometrics, and fraud detection.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $1.8B, which is 22.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Security industry in Eastern Asia over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Security 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 9 funds. There are also funds from Beijing, Shanghai and Minato. VCs in the sample usually invest in Japan and China. They also invest in 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 Entertainment, Autonomous Vehicles and Manufacturing.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1858 and the newest one in 2019. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 9 VCs. 2018, 2020 and 2017 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2005 and 2020 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 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 323. Average number of funding rounds is 117.8 while median is 101.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 238. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 72. Average amount of lead investments is 16.2 while median is 6.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.14 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 13.04 and the median is 15.37. 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 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 436100000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 43080000.15 and median is 0.15. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.