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

Amount of money raised in Hardware/Electronics funding rounds is $302.2M, which is 3.5% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 4 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located either in China or Japan. There are also funds from South Korea. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Beijing, Zhongshan and Wangjing. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also invest in startups from China 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 Manufacturing, Enterprise Software and Autonomous Vehicles.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1973 and the newest one in 2016. In 2015 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 7 – 12, 13 – 24 or in 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8, the maximum is 424. Average number of funding rounds is 86.7 while median is 61.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 112. Average amount of lead investments is 25.6 while median is 18.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -25.55 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 6.04 and the median is 6.52. 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 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors more often than in rounds with 4 – 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common ranges are 5 – 10 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 0.7 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.13 and median is 0.05. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.