Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Information 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 in Late stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Information Services industry.
Information services create, manage, and deliver information. It includes cloud computing, systems and information management, and IT consulting and outsourcing.

Amount of money raised in Late funding rounds is $7.9B, which is 65.6% of the total amount of money raised in the Information Services industry in Eastern Asia over the last 2 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Information Services 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. The most common city is Beijing which is home to 9 funds. There are also funds from Hong Kong Island, Shanghai and Zhongshan. 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, Medical Service and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1981 and the newest one in 2017. In 2008 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.
• 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 2, the maximum is 327. Average number of funding rounds is 93.6 while median is 54.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 83. Average amount of lead investments is 21.6 while median is 10.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.64 and the median is 2.87. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 4 – 5 or 3 – 4 investors VCs in the sample have an average round size of 50 – 100 million or 100-500 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 225500000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 11868421.81 and median is 0.45. The most common multiplicator value is 0.83.