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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 4 years. They are actively investing in Mobile industry. Mobile industry includes mobile payments, mobile apps, and app discovery.

Amount of Early funding rounds is 89, which is 29.4% of the total amount of rounds in the Mobile industry in South Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in South Asia that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Mobile industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - All VCs are located in India. There is an equal amount of VCs in Mumbai and Bangalore which host 6 funds each. There are also funds from 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 Enterprise Software, Banking and Real Estate.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1983 and the newest one in 2016. In 2011 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2012 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 117.1 while median is 68.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 127. Average amount of lead investments is 34.0 while median is 22.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 6. 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 -8.15 and the median is -12.7. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 - 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 - 50 million and 50 - 100 million. 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 3.4 and median is 1.17. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.