Top 20 investors in South Asia that took part in the most funding rounds in Content industry over the recent years

Intro

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 over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Content industry.
Content is for creating and managing content. It includes content creators and creative agencies, discovery and delivery networks, and content management systems.

Amount of funding rounds in South Asia is 98, which is 2.6% of the total amount of rounds in the Content industry over the last 4 years.

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

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – All VCs are located in India. The most common city is Mumbai which is home to 8 funds. There are also funds from Gurgaon, Bengaluru and Bangalore. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: India and The United States with the majority investing in India. 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 Gamification, Telecommunications and Enterprise Software.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1946 and the newest one in 2017. In 2017 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2015 to 2021. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals.
• 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 4, the maximum is 280. Average number of funding rounds is 85.2 while median is 56.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 8. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 1 and maximum is 122. Average amount of lead investments is 34.9 while median is 22.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 25.15 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -16.24 and the median is -16.13. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Seed stages are more common for funds in the sample. Late and Venture stages are less common. Funding rounds with these VCs have 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 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 3.04 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.37 and median is 0.08. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.