Top 6 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in IT Infrastructure industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 6 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Eastern Asia that have invested in Seed stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in IT Infrastructure industry.
IT infrastructure refers to the software, hardware, network resources, and services associated with the management information technology environment. It includes technical support, data center, and IaaS.

Amount of money raised in funding rounds in Eastern Asia is $93.7M, which is 11.9% of the total amount of money raised in the IT Infrastructure industry in Seed rounds over the last 2 years.

Top 6 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Seed funding rounds in IT Infrastructure industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in Japan while others are in China. Headquarters of VCs are located in two cities: Tokyo and Shenzhen with the majority being in Tokyo. These VCs tend to invest in startups from Japan, but also invest in startups from Kenya and China. 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 Gamification, Business Development and Telecommunications.
• Investments – All funds have different average numbers of rounds per year. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 10, the maximum is 132. Average number of funding rounds is 53.3 while median is 38.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 21. Average amount of lead investments is 8.0 while median is 3.5. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between 1.73 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 13.8 and the median is 14.35. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds.
• Typical Rounds – Funds usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 or 2 – 3 investors. The majority of funds have an average round size of less than 100 thousands. Others have 1 – 5 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 0.03 and 0.02 are less common.