Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Finance 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 Finance industry.

Amount of money raised in Finance funding rounds is $982.9M, which is 9.3% 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 Finance industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among the top VCs is Japan which hosts 11 funds. There are also funds from China and South Korea. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 11 funds. There are also funds from Hong Kong Island, Beijing and Shanghai. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also invest in startups from The United States and 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 Banking. They also invest in Legal, Digital Media and Social Network.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 and the newest one in 2017. In 2017 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 10 VCs. 2019, 2017 and 2016 were also 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 3, the maximum is 424. Average number of funding rounds is 89.0 while median is 57.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 112. Average amount of lead investments is 23.4 while median is 8.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 4. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -37.67 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.78 and the median is 9.3. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 10.82.
• Typical Rounds – Funds participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors more often than in rounds with 4 – 5 or 7 – 8 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 1 – 5 million, 100 thousands – 1 million and 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 2.98 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.21 and median is 0.02. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.