Top 20 investors in Southeast Asia with the biggest sum of Seed 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 Southeast Asia that have invested in Seed stage 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 funding rounds in Southeast Asia is $101.1M, which is 0.9% of the total amount of money raised in the Health Care industry in Seed rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 20 investors in Southeast Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in Health Care industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in Singapore while others are in Malaysia. Headquarters of VCs are located in two cities: Central Region and Kuala Lumpur with the majority being in Central Region. VCs tend to invest in startups from Singapore, but also invest in startups from The United States, India, and Malaysia. For 9 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Enterprise Software and Medical Service.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1959 and the newest one in 2019. In 2016 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, 2020 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 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 424. Average number of funding rounds is 64.8 while median is 17.0. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 16. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 87. Average amount of lead investments is 14.0 while median is 2.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -46.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 4.77 and the median is 14.65. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 – 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of 10 – 50 million and less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 7.61 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.8 and median is 0.07. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.