Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Media and Entertainment 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 3 years. They are actively investing in Media and Entertainment industry.
Media and entertainment is a large sector that includes music, movies, theatre, dating and sex industry, gambling, event management, photofraphy, publishing, cirtual reality, and graphic design.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $3.3B, which is 11.0% of the total amount of money raised in the Media and Entertainment industry in Late rounds over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Media and Entertainment industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located either in Japan or China. There are also funds from South Korea. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Hong Kong Island, Shenzhen and Beijing. VCs in the sample invest in Japan and China more often than they do in The United States. 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 Business Development, Telecommunications and Hardware/Electronics.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1974 and the newest one in 2017. In 2017 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 9 VCs. 2018, 2020 and 2016 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2009 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2017 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 – 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 527. Average number of funding rounds is 142.0 while median is 118.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 123. Average amount of lead investments is 31.0 while median is 18.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -32.54 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.67 and the median is 2.25. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• 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 10 – 50 million or less than 100 thousands. 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 5.46 and median is 0.82. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.