Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds 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.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $133.3B, which is 27.0% of the total amount of money raised in Early rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in China while others are in Japan. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Beijing, Shanghai 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 Banking. They also invest in Manufacturing, Enterprise Software and Autonomous Vehicles.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1953 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.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 7 – 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 – 24, 24 or in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 424. Average number of funding rounds is 138.2 while median is 113.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 203. Average amount of lead investments is 52.8 while median is 41.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 29. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -38.44 and 27.24 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -6.93 and the median is -3.36. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors, less often in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands or 10 – 50 million, more often than 50 – 100 million or 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.83 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.22 and median is 0.15. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.