Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Biotechnology 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 over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Biotechnology industry.
Biotechnology is the use of biology to make or develop products. It includes biopharmaceutical, genetics, and neuroscience.

Amount of money raised in Biotechnology funding rounds is $49.7B, which is 11.0% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Biotechnology industry 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. There is an equal amount of VCs in Hong Kong Island, Beijing and Shanghai which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Tokyo. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: China and The United States 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 Finance. They also invest in Medical Service, Bio & Nano Technology and Banking.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2018. In 2008 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 10 VCs. 2020, 2021 and 2019 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2013 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 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 17, the maximum is 620. Average number of funding rounds is 147.2 while median is 65.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 4 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 42.0 while median is 21.5. 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 19.62 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -0.31 and the median is -0.71. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Late and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Private Equity and Seed stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs have 5 – 6 or 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million and more than 1 billion. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 82.86 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 6.53 and median is 1.32.