Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late 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 in Late stage over the last 5 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 Consumer Goods funding rounds is $35.9B, which is 12.4% of the total amount of money raised in Late rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late 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. There is an equal amount of VCs in Beijing, Hong Kong Island and Shanghai which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Tokyo. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: China and The United States with the majority investing in China. 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 1977 and the newest one in 2016. In 2002 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2015 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 and in 2 - 6 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6, the maximum is 620. Average number of funding rounds is 174.8 while median is 110.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 204. Average amount of lead investments is 46.8 while median is 32.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 8. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -27.25 and 22.6 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -3.18 and the median is -3.83. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds - 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 100-500 million and more than 1 billion. 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 3.0 and median is 0.86. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.