Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Cloud Computing 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 in Late stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Cloud Computing industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $4.4B, which is 18.0% of the total amount of money raised in the Cloud Computing industry in Late rounds over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Cloud Computing 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 Beijing and Hong Kong Island which host 5 funds each. There are also funds from Tokyo and Shanghai. These VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan and India. 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 Banking. They also invest in Autonomous Vehicles, Manufacturing and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1977 and the newest one in 2015. In 2008 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 2, 7 – 12 or in 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5, the maximum is 276. Average number of funding rounds is 57.6 while median is 41.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 115. Average amount of lead investments is 24.4 while median is 13.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 14.71 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -3.29 and the median is -1.61. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is 14.71.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3, 4 – 5 or 5 – 6 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands, 100-500 million, 10 – 50 million or 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 5.42 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.88 and median is 0.28. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.