| New Unicorns Created | Average Funding in New Unicorns | Average Time from Series A to Unicorn | Median Number of Investors |
| 112 | $ 372M | 4.0 Years | 8 |
The Investment sector has over 9K+ startups that comprise of companies offering platforms for retail and institutional investors to research and invest in multiple financial assets. It also includes companies offering solutions to financial institutions providing investment related services, financial data and analytics.
Investment Tech is also one of the active sectors for investors, with an overall funding of nearly USD 51 Bn in 2.5K+ companies. It is also interesting to note that nearly half of the funding has been raised in the recent 3 years (2017-2019).
Plug and Play Tech Centre, FinTech Innovation Lab, Startupbootcamp, 500 Startups and Y Combinator are amongst the most active investors in this sector, by number of investments.
Mid & Back Office Solutions, Financial Data & Research, Securities Trading Platforms are the top business models attracting major funding.
The sector has also seen the rise of over 10 unicorns - OnceConnect, Tiger Broker, Dave just to name a few. We also have nearly 120 public companies - with Futu5, Zuu and Raiz, going public in the recent past.
We, at 秘密研究所, keep a track of the latest happenings in the world of startups and their associated ecosystems 鈥� including venture capital funds, private equity funds and investment banks amongst others.
In this edition, we have the 鈥楾op Investment Tech startups鈥� 鈥� a curated list of the most promising startups leading the Investing industry, from across the globe.