Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Autonomous Vehicles 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 Seed stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Autonomous Vehicles industry.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $557.7M, which is 9.2% of the total amount of money raised in the Autonomous Vehicles industry in Seed rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Autonomous Vehicles industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among the top VCs is China which hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from Japan and South Korea. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 7 funds. There are also funds from Beijing, Shanghai and Xuhui. 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Information Technology and Gamification.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1996 and the newest one in 2017. In 2014 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 13 – 24, 7 – 12 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 7, the maximum is 424. Average number of funding rounds is 76.9 while median is 54.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 21. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 112. Average amount of lead investments is 24.3 while median is 18.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -24.85 and 20.84 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 3.56 and the median is -0.18. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3, 4 – 5 or 6 – 7 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of less than 100 thousands, 100 thousands – 1 million, 5 – 10 million or 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 0.8 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.16 and median is 0.11. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.