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Voting for the 2018 AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards has now closed. Many thanks for your participation. The winners will be announced on November 12.

To review the nominee shortlists, please follow this link. For more information on the process, visit the AVCJ Awards website (http://www.avcjforum.com/awards).

The region's PE and VC community has a 50% say in the final outcome, with a judging panel of industry experts and the AVCJ Editorial Board each accounting for 25%. Voting is not limited to AVCJ subscribers but participants must register - providing name, company and contact details - so as to avoid vote packing. No more than 10 votes are accepted from employees of a single firm.

Three categories are not subject to a public vote. The Operational Value Add Award and the Responsible Investment Award are presented at the discretion of the AVCJ Editorial Board with substantial input from separate judging panels of industry professionals with expertise in those fields. Meanwhile, the AVCJ Special Achievement Award is presented solely at the discretion of the AVCJ Editorial Board.

Relying in part on industry recommendations, the AVCJ Editorial Board drew up nominee shortlists in consultation with the judging panel.

The nominees in each category are as follows:

Fundraising of the Year – Venture Capital

  • Blackbird Ventures 2018 (Blackbird Ventures)
  • Lightspeed India Partners II (Lightspeed India)
  • Openspace Ventures II (Openspace Ventures)
  • Qiming Venture Partners VI (Qiming Venture Partners)
  • Sequoia Capital China Venture Fund VII (Sequoia Capital China)

Fundraising of the Year – Mid Cap

(Fund size - below $1.75 billion)

  • Anacacia Partnership III (Anacacia Capital)
  • Japan Industrial No.5 Investment Enterprise (Japan Industrial Partners)
  • Orchid Asia VII (Orchid Asia)
  • Quadrant Private Equity No. 6 (Quadrant Private Equity)
  • SSG Capital Partners IV (SSG Capital Partners)

Fundraising of the Year – Large Cap

(Fund size - $1.75 billion and above) 

  • Affinity Asia Pacific Fund V (Affinity Equity Partners)
  • BGH Capital Fund I (BGH Capital)
  • Carlyle Asia Partners V (The Carlyle Group)
  • Hillhouse Fund IV (Hillhouse Capital)
  • Yunfeng Fund III (Yunfeng Capital)

Deal of the Year – Early Stage Technology

(Enterprise valuation – below $750 million) 

  • Deskera (Jungle Ventures/Tembusu Partners)                                                         
  • Huiying Medical Image (CDH Investments)
  • Klook (Goldman Sachs/Sequoia Capital China/Matrix Partners China)            
  • Perfect (China Creation Ventures/CyberLink Corp/Extol Capital/Yuanta Financial Holdings)    
  • Yihang.ai (CICC/Matrix Partners China/Source Code Capital/CICC Alpha)

Deal of the Year – Late Stage Technology

(Enterprise valuation – $750 million and above; please see awards website for list of investors)

  • Ant Financial
  • Go-Jek
  • Grab
  • JD Logistics
  • SenseTime

Deal of the Year – Mid Cap

(Investment size – below $100 million)

  • Everest Foods (Allegro Funds)
  • Joy Rent a Car (Hahn & Company)
  • Kohikan Corp (The Longreach Group)
  • Novartis – drug portfolio (Samara Capital)
  • Shenzhen Scholar Culture & Education Technology (CRE Alliance)

Deal of the Year – Large Cap

(Investment size – $100 million and above)

  • Axilone (CITIC Capital)
  • Lock & Lock (Affinity Equity Partners)
  • Luckin Coffee (Centurium Capital/GIC Private/Legend Capital/Joy Capital)
  • Mankind Pharma (ChrysCapital Partners/Adams Street Partners/GIC Private/HarbourVest Partners/Pantheon)
  • Toshiba Memory Corporation (Bain Capital Private Equity/Innovation Network Corporation of Japan/Development Bank of Japan/Apple/Dell/Kingston/Seagate)

Exit of the Year – IPO

(Please see awards website for list of investors)

  • Katitas
  • Meituan-Dianping
  • Mercari
  • Pinduoduo
  • Xiaomi

Exit of the Year – Mid Cap

(Investment size on entry – below $100 million)

  • Icon Group (Quadrant Private Equity)
  • Fasford Technology (Advantage Partners)
  • LiquidHub (ChrysCapital Partners)
  • Novotech Holdings (Mercury Capital)
  • Sai Life Sciences (Tata Capital Growth)

Exit of the Year – Large Cap

(Investment size on entry – $100 million and above)

  • Accolade Wines (CHAMP Private Equity)
  • Carver Korea (Bain Capital Private Equity/Goldman Sachs)
  • Ele.me (CITIC Private Equity/CMC Capital Partners/Gopher Asset Management/GSR Ventures/JD Group/Matrix Partners China/Sequoia Capital China/Tencent Holdings)
  • Flipkart (SoftBank/Naspers)
  • Myanmar Distillery (TPG Capital)

PE & VC Professional of the Year

  • Ben Gray (BGH Capital)
  • Sanjiv Kaul (ChrysCapital Partners)
  • Zhen Zhang (Gaorong Capital)
  • Zhang Lei (Hillhouse Capital)
  • Shane Chesson & Hian Goh (Openspace Ventures)

Firm of the Year – Mid Cap

(AUM – below $5 billion)

  • Advantage Partners
  • Japan Industrial Partners
  • Qiming Venture Partners
  • Quadrant Private Equity
  • Sequoia Capital China

Firm of the Year – Large Cap

(AUM – $5 billion and above)

  • Affinity Equity Partners
  • Bain Capital
  • The Carlyle Group
  • CDH Investments
  • Hillhouse Capital
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