Intro

The top 9 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in South Asia that have invested in Late 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 funding rounds in South Asia is 18, which is 1.3% of the total amount of Late rounds in the Artificial Intelligence industry over the last 3 years.

Top 9 investors in South Asia that took part in the most Late funding rounds in Artificial Intelligence industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - All VCs are located in India. The most common city is Bangalore which is home to 3 funds. There are also funds from New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad. There are 2 countries that funds tend to invest in: India and The United States with the majority investing in India. 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 Enterprise Software, Gamification and E-Commerce Platforms.
  • Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1999 and the newest one in 2016. In 2000 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2007 to 2020. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals.
  • Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 13 - 24. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 19, the maximum is 280. Average number of funding rounds is 104.8 while median is 50.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 9 and maximum is 122. Average amount of lead investments is 42.1 while median is 22.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 10. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -28.26 and 2.81 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is -12.59 and the median is -13.14. It means that these funds act as lead investors less often than other funds.
  • Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 - 3 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 0.0 at minimum and 2.0 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.53 and median is 0.29.