Top 20 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Enterprise 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 in Late stage over the last 5 years. They are actively investing in Enterprise industry. Enterprise industry supports every aspect of running a large-scale business. It includes project and product management, enterprise software, and data mining, as well as supply chain management, customer relations, and billing.

Amount of money raised in Late funding rounds is $2.9B, which is 67.4% of the total amount of money raised in the Enterprise industry in South Asia over the last 5 years.

Top 20 investors in South Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Enterprise 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 9 funds. There are also funds from Bangalore, New Delhi and Hyderabad. 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 Entertainment, Enterprise Software and EdTech.
• 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 2007 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 2020 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 6, the maximum is 502. Average number of funding rounds is 124.6 while median is 47.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 15. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 3 and maximum is 127. Average amount of lead investments is 31.8 while median is 19.5. The most common amount of lead investments is 7. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -46.0 and 22.71 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -12.75 and the median is -14.11. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds. The most common value is -21.0.
• Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 - 3 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is 10 - 50 million. Less common range is 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 3.24 and median is 1.16. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.