Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Legal 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 3 years. They are actively investing in Legal industry.
Legal deals with law and provides law-related services. It includes compliance, blockchain, intellectual property, e-signature, and legal tech.

Amount of money raised in Legal funding rounds is $255.7M, which is 0.9% of the total amount of money raised in Seed rounds in Eastern Asia over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Legal 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. There is an equal amount of VCs in Tokyo and Hong Kong Island which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from Beijing and Shanghai. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from Japan, Singapore, and China. For 8 funds in the sample, 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 Gamification, Legal and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1986 and the newest one in 2018. In 2017 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. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2009 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2020 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 381. Average number of funding rounds is 66.4 while median is 34.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 101. Average amount of lead investments is 8.9 while median is 3.5. 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 15.22 and the median is 19.86. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Funding rounds with these VCs have 5 – 6 or 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 1 – 5 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 143000000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 7150000.28 and median is 0.02. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.