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 over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Autonomous Vehicles industry.

Amount of money raised in Autonomous Vehicles funding rounds is $40.3B, which is 8.6% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 5 years.

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

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The majority of VCs are located in China while others are in Japan. There is an equal amount of VCs in Beijing and Tokyo which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Shanghai and Hong Kong Island. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: China and Japan with the majority investing in China. 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 E-Commerce Platforms.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1953 and the newest one in 2015. In 2008 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2021. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Funds equally often participate in 2, 2 - 6, and 7 - 12 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 294. Average number of funding rounds is 75.7 while median is 24.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 203. Average amount of lead investments is 30.0 while median is 7.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -48.78 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -8.75 and the median is -12.23. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is -37.67.
  • Typical Rounds - Early and Late stages are more common for funds in the sample. Seed and Private Equity stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs have 2 - 3, 4 - 5 or 3 - 4 investors more often than 8 - 9 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 100-500 million, 10 - 50 million and 50 - 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 5.42 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.63 and median is 0.3. The most common multiplicator value is 0.83.