{"id":2172,"date":"2019-04-19T18:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T13:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2019-06-21T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:31:34","slug":"12x-to-81b-in-5years-growth-in-venture-capital-investment-in-asia-2013-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/12x-to-81b-in-5years-growth-in-venture-capital-investment-in-asia-2013-18\/","title":{"rendered":"12x to $81B in 5years &#8211; Growth in venture capital investment in Asia (2013-18)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The huge growth in funding to Asian startups since 2013 has resulted in some monstrous exits. 5 of the 10 to be exact which included 2 from China ( none in 2013) and the humungous $21B Walmart acquisition of Flipkart in India &#8211; one of the largest VC backed M&amp;A exits. The growth in startups and their value creation is now all over South East Asia.\u00a0Between 2017 and 2018 Asia saw the birth of 65 Unicorns with 3 from Indonesia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/C5112AQHYX5xhm30kWA\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/0?e=1566432000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=0On_U0B3D10E7hI7T3UYka0RCtEbOiAJXnNMHC4djys\" alt=\"Growth in venture capital investment in Asia\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>CBInsights in collaboration with the New York Times identified 20 top VC\u2019s in Asia as a part of their global rankings and it includes the likes of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Neil Shen<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;<em>&nbsp;Sequoia China (Rank 1),&nbsp;<\/em><strong>Lee Fixel&nbsp;<\/strong><em>&#8211; Tiger Global (Rank 2),&nbsp;<\/em><strong>Shailendra Singh<\/strong><em>&nbsp;&#8211; Sequoia India (Rank 6),&nbsp;<\/em><strong>Yuri Milner<\/strong><em>&nbsp;&#8211; DST Global (Rank 7),&nbsp;<\/em><strong>Jenny Lee<\/strong><em>&nbsp;&#8211; GGV Capital (Rank 8) and<\/em>&nbsp;<strong>Chen Xiaohong<\/strong><em>&nbsp;&#8211; H Capital (Rank 14) ,&nbsp;<\/em>among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data driven ranking considered :&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An investor\u2019s exits \u2013 the frequency\/volume, size, and stage of entry<\/li><li>Consistency \u2013 stage, industry consistency of investments<\/li><li>Recency of performance&nbsp;amongst other parameters.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>SoftBank was conspicuous in their absence unless Japan is considered as a separate entity from Asia, as in the case of US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link for more details and complete Asian ranking :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Top 20 Venture Capitalists In Asia<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbinsights.com\/research\/top-asia-venture-capital-partners\/\">https:\/\/www.cbinsights.com\/research\/top-asia-venture-capital-partners\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The huge growth in funding to Asian startups since 2013 has resulted in some monstrous exits. 5 of the 10 to be exact which included 2 from China ( none in 2013) and the humungous $21B Walmart acquisition of Flipkart in India &#8211; one of the largest VC backed M&amp;A exits. The growth in startups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/12x-to-81b-in-5years-growth-in-venture-capital-investment-in-asia-2013-18\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,80],"tags":[8,70,97,127],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-biz-tech","tag-business","tag-alwayslearning","tag-managing","tag-techindustry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-z2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}