Top 20 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Telecommunications 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 Telecommunications industry.
Telecommunications is about making communication possible. It includes providing cable and internet services, voice and video chatting, internet and communication software and hardware, as well as wireless technologies and NFC.

Amount of money raised in Seed funding rounds is $691.3M, which is 0.6% of the total amount of money raised in the Telecommunications industry in Eastern Asia over the last 5 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located either in Japan or China. The most common city is Tokyo which is home to 9 funds. There are also funds from Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong Island. VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also invest in startups from China, The United States, and Indonesia. 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 Medical Service, Business Development and Telecommunications.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1991 and the newest one in 2017. In 2005 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. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2013 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2016 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments – Funds equally often participate in 7 – 12 and 2 – 6 funding rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 3, the maximum is 687. Average number of funding rounds is 142.0 while median is 79.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 47. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 113. Average amount of lead investments is 27.3 while median is 11.5. 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 6.0 and the median is 8.47. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is -10.13.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 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 0.0 at minimum and 225500000.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 26370000.15 and median is 0.06. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.