Top 20 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Health Care 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 Health Care industry.
Health care provides medical services, manufactures medical equipment or drugs, and facilitates the provision of healthcare to patients. It includes pharmaceutical and first aid, nursing and residential care, and health diagnostics and medical devices, as well as funeral, rehabilitation, and cannabis.

Amount of money raised in Health Care funding rounds is $4.5B, which is 14.6% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in South Asia over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Health Care 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 11 funds. There are also funds from Bangalore, New Delhi and Gurgaon. These VCs tend to invest in startups from India, but also invest in startups from The United States and Canada. 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, E-Commerce Platforms and Consumer.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1984 and the newest one in 2016. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2010 and 2020 years. For some funds, 2017 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 4, the maximum is 425. Average number of funding rounds is 99.0 while median is 38.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 30. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 127. Average amount of lead investments is 31.2 while median is 13.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 7. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -39.42 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -8.51 and the median is -6.24. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is -4.33.
• Typical Rounds – The most common investment stage for funds in the sample is Early stage. Late, Seed and Private Equity stages are less common. 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 less than 100 thousands and 10 – 50 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 47.73 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 5.75 and median is 0.81. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.