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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 Mobile industry. Mobile industry includes mobile payments, mobile apps, and app discovery.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $479.4M, which is 0.7% of the total amount of money raised in the Mobile industry in Eastern Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Mobile 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 Japan while others are in China. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 11 funds. There are also funds from Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai. VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also invest in startups from The United States, China, and Singapore. 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Telecommunications and Gamification.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1981 and the newest one in 2018. In 2008 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2015 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2013 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 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 2, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 123.8 while median is 44.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 113. Average amount of lead investments is 27.2 while median is 4.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 3. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 6.31 and the median is 6.38. 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 3 - 4 or 4 - 5 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 10 - 50 million. 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 18.88 and median is close to zero. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.