Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Marketplace 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 Marketplace industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $4.9B, which is 12.1% of the total amount of money raised in the Marketplace industry over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Marketplace 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 Shanghai, Tokyo and Beijing which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Hong Kong Island. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan, The United States, and Israel. For half 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 Telecommunications, Social Network and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2019. In 2010 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12, 13 – 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 294. Average number of funding rounds is 85.2 while median is 49.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 2 and maximum is 115. Average amount of lead investments is 27.6 while median is 17.5. 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 27.24 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -9.26 and the median is -5.99. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is -4.33.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Early stage. Late, Seed and Private Equity stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs have 4 – 5, 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors more often than 1 – 2 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 million or 50 – 100 million, more often than 10 – 50 million or 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.79 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.42 and median is 0.32. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.