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The top 20 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Southeast Asia that have invested in Early stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Software industry. Software develops, maintains, and publishes software used by people and companies. It includes internet and consumer software, operating systems, and desktop apps, as well as gamification, automation, and SaaS.

Amount of funding rounds in Software is 157, which is 27.0% of the total amount of Early rounds in Southeast Asia over the last 3 years.

Top 20 investors in Southeast Asia that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Software industry over the recent years
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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The majority of VCs are located in Singapore while others are in Indonesia. The most common city is Central Region which is a home to 17 funds. There are also funds from Jakarta and Jakarta Pusat. VCs in the sample usually invest in The United States and Singapore. They also invest in India and Israel. For 4 funds in the sample, 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, E-Commerce Platforms and Autonomous Vehicles.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1981 and the newest one in 2019. In 2017 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2000 to 2020. For some funds, 2019 was the year with the most amount of deals. 2019 was the peak for successful exits. 2020, 2017, and 2016 are the runner ups.
  • 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 5, the maximum is 424. Average number of funding rounds is 85.9 while median is 60.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 49. Average amount of lead investments is 15.0 while median is 13.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 13. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -4.87 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 8.19 and the median is 6.89. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
  • Typical Rounds - Funding rounds with these VCs have 3 - 4 or 4 - 5 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 28.24 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 2.56 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.