Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Financial Services 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 Financial Services industry.
Financial services are provided to people and companies. It includes accounting, audit, and tax services, as well as asset management, investment and financing advisory, and brokerage.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $51.9B, which is 8.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Financial Services industry over the last 4 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among the top VCs is China which hosts 15 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. There is an equal amount of VCs in Hong Kong Island and Beijing which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Tokyo and Xuhui. 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, Banking and E-Commerce Platforms.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1918 and the newest one in 2017. In 1999 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 7 VCs. 2019, 2017 and 2020 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2009 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 2 and 7 – 12 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 172.2 while median is 158.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 113. Average amount of lead investments is 38.0 while median is 29.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -0.48 and the median is 1.45. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds in the sample usually invest in Early, Seed and Late stages. Private Equity stage is less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is more than 1 billion. Less common range is 10 – 50 million. 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 5.29 and median is 0.7. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.