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 FinTech industry. FinTech refers to the integration of technology into financial services in order to improve their use and delivery to consumers. It includes micro lending, payments, personal finance, and financial software.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $629.1M, which is 1.5% of the total amount of money raised in the FinTech industry in Eastern Asia over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in FinTech 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. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tokyo, Hong Kong Island and Beijing which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Yamanashi. VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan, The United States, and Nigeria. 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, Gamification and Legal.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1996 and the newest one in 2020. In 2015 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2014 to 2021. 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 7 - 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 381. Average number of funding rounds is 80.0 while median is 34.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 101. Average amount of lead investments is 14.2 while median is 4.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. 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 9.11 and the median is 17.07. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - Funds participate in rounds with 4 - 5 or 3 - 4 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 347.28 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 19.94 and median is 0.08. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.