Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Education 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 2 years. They are actively investing in Education industry.
Education provides instruction and training on a wide variety of subjects. It includes primary, higher and secondary education, language learning, and edutainment, as well as EdTech and educational and training services.

Amount of money raised in Education funding rounds is $15.1B, which is 5.4% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Education 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 Tokyo and Beijing which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Hong Kong Island and Shanghai. 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 Finance. They also invest in Telecommunications, E-Commerce Platforms and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1970 and the newest one in 2015. In 2009 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. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2008 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 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 11, the maximum is 527. Average number of funding rounds is 149.8 while median is 89.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 123. Average amount of lead investments is 31.1 while median is 11.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -13.47 and 27.41 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.06 and the median is 2.93. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• 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 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of more than 1 billion and 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 11.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.28 and median is 0.56. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.