Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Education 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 5 years. They are actively investing in Education industry.
Education provides instruction and training on a wide variety of subjects. It includes primary, higher and secondary education, language learning, and edutainment, as well as EdTech and educational and training services.

Amount of money raised in Education funding rounds is $199.7M, which is 2.3% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Education 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 8 funds. There are also funds from Shanghai, Hong Kong Island and Hangzhou. These VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from The United States and Japan. 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 E-Commerce Platforms, Telecommunications and Retail.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2001 and the newest one in 2017. In 2006 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2011 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2015 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 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 9, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 158.2 while median is 94.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 240. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 113. Average amount of lead investments is 29.0 while median is 13.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 10. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -4.01 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 11.78 and the median is 10.94. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 3 – 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 100-500 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 63.69 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 4.0 and median is 0.26. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.