Top 20 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Gaming 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 South Asia that have invested over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Gaming industry.
Gaming is about development, marketing, and monetization of video games. It includes online and offline games for pc and console and eSports.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in South Asia is $547.2M, which is 0.5% of the total amount of money raised in the Gaming industry over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Gaming 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 7 funds. There are also funds from Bangalore, Gurgaon and Bengaluru. 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 Enterprise Software, Banking and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 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 2014 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 13 – 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 30, the maximum is 502. Average number of funding rounds is 132.3 while median is 53.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 40. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 6 and maximum is 127. Average amount of lead investments is 28.8 while median is 19.0. 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 22.71 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -4.16 and the median is -1.79. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Early stage. Seed, Late and Venture stages are less common. Funds participate in rounds with 2 – 3 or 3 – 4 investors The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 – 50 million. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 13.83 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.23 and median is 0.82. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.