Top 7 investors in Southeast Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 7 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 Early stage over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Artificial Intelligence industry.
Artificial intelligence is a frontier research discipline to build computerized systems that perform tasks requiring human intelligence. It includes facial, speech and image recognition, machine learning, and natural language processing, as well as computer vision, visual search, and internet of things.

Amount of money raised in Early funding rounds is $140.0M, which is 26.8% of the total amount of money raised in the Artificial Intelligence industry in Southeast Asia over the last 3 years.

Top 7 investors in Southeast Asia with the biggest sum of Early funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among the top VCs is Indonesia which hosts 5 funds. There are also funds from Thailand and Philippines. The most common city is Jakarta which is home to 4 funds. There are also funds from Parañaque, Jakarta Pusat and Bangkok. VCs tend to invest in startups from Indonesia, but also invest in startups from The United States, Thailand, and Australia. 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 Autonomous Vehicles, Analytics and Security.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 2006 and the newest one in 2019. In 2017 the most amount of funds were founded. 2020 holds the most deals for 3 VCs. 2018, 2019 and 2017 were also fruitful.
• 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 5, the maximum is 60. Average number of funding rounds is 29.0 while median is 12.0. 3 funds in the sample have 1 lead investments which is the most common amount. 15, 13 and 11 are found less often. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -3.08 and 20.67 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 8.32 and the median is 9.0. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 9.0.
• Typical Rounds – No grouping tendencies in the amount of investors in the funding rounds were found in this sample. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 1.15 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.34 and median is 0.2. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.