Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Consumer Goods 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 4 years. They are actively investing in Consumer Goods industry.
Consumer goods relate to items purchased by individuals and households rather than by manufacturers. It includes clothing and consumer electronics, hard products, like luxury and sporting goods, soft products, like textiles and paper products, and a variety of other goods like toys, musical instruments and tobacco.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $70.8B, which is 23.0% of the total amount of money raised in the Consumer Goods industry over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Consumer Goods 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. The most common city is Beijing which is home to 6 funds. There are also funds from Shanghai, Hong Kong Island and Tokyo. These VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from The United States and Japan. 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 Telecommunications, Business Development and Banking.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1933 and the newest one in 2016. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2018 and 2019. 2020 and 2017 were less fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2008 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2014 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 620. Average number of funding rounds is 178.8 while median is 146.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 46.5 while median is 26.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 1. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.3 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 1.18 and the median is -1.14. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Late and Early stages are more common for funds in the sample. Seed and Private Equity stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of more than 1 billion and 500 million – 1 billion. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 63.55 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 5.67 and median is 0.92. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.