Top 8 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Agriculture industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 8 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 Late stage over the last 2 years. They are actively investing in Agriculture industry.
Agriculture covers everything that is grown for human use. It includes farming and cultivation, hydroponics and agtech, and forestry.

Amount of money raised in Late funding rounds is $680.6M, which is 24.2% of the total amount of money raised in the Agriculture industry in Eastern Asia over the last 2 years.

Top 8 investors in Eastern Asia with the biggest sum of Late funding rounds in Agriculture industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The majority of VCs are located in China while others are in Japan. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. These VCs tend to invest in startups from China, but also invest in startups from Japan and The United States. 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 Hardware/Electronics, Enterprise Software and Consumer.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1974 and the newest one in 2016. In 2016 the most amount of funds were founded. 2018 holds the most deals for 4 VCs. 2020, 2019 and 2016 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 – 6 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 4, the maximum is 327. Average number of funding rounds is 86.5 while median is 14.5. The most common amount of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 6. 3 funds in the sample have 0 lead investments which is the most common amount. 1, 73 and 36 are found less often. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -21.3 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 16.29 and the median is 22.07. 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 2 – 3 investors. Less often in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 50 – 100 million. The most common average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation for funds in the sample is 0.0. 4.85, 0.45 and 0.4 are less common.