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The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in South Asia that have invested in Early stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Financial Services industry. Financial services are provided to people and companies. It includes accounting, audit, and tax services, as well as asset management, investment and financing advisory, and brokerage.

Amount of funding rounds in South Asia is 87, which is 2.8% of the total amount of Early rounds in the Financial Services industry over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in South Asia that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Financial Services industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - All VCs are located in India. The most common city is Mumbai which is home to 10 funds. There are also funds from Bangalore, New Delhi and Bengaluru. These VCs tend to invest in startups from India, but also invest in startups from The United States 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 Banking, Gamification and Enterprise Software.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2000 and the newest one in 2017. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. 2019 holds the most deals for 8 VCs. 2018, 2020 and 2015 were also fruitful. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2015 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2019 became the year with the most successful exits.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 7 - 12. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 425. Average number of funding rounds is 113.2 while median is 84.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 127. Average amount of lead investments is 33.3 while median is 22.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.26 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -5.09 and the median is -10.29. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 2 - 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 - 50 million and less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 22.67 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.9 and median is 0.46. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.