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 Mobile/Apps industry.

Amount of money raised in Late funding rounds is $12.8B, which is 41.6% of the total amount of money raised in the Mobile/Apps industry in Eastern Asia over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Mobile/Apps industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The majority of VCs are located in China while others are in Japan. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Hong Kong Island, Shanghai and Beijing. These VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan and 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 Banking. They also invest in Telecommunications, Real Estate and Manufacturing.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1970 and the newest one in 2019. In 2008 the most amount of funds were founded. The two years with the most amount of deals were 2019 and 2018. 2017 and 2020 were less fruitful.
  • 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 4, the maximum is 276. Average number of funding rounds is 87.8 while median is 77.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 90. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 115. Average amount of lead investments is 34.6 while median is 25.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -24.49 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -1.89 and the median is -3.17. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds participate in rounds with 3 - 4 or 4 - 5 investors more often than in rounds with 2 - 3 or 7 - 8 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 1.79 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.35 and median is 0.31. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.