AVCJ Awards 2020 - voting has closed

For full details of the awards process, please go to www.avcjforum.com/awards. The nominee shortlists are also available (www.avcjforum.com/awards/shortlist).

The region’s PE and VC community has a 50% say in the result, with the judges and the AVCJ Editorial Board accounting for 40% and 10% respectively. As in previous years, 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 will be 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 (Australia) Fund IV (Blackbird Ventures)
• Eastern Bell Capital Fund I (Eastern Bell Capital)
• Ince Capital Partners I (Ince Capital)
• Lightspeed India Partners III (Lightspeed India Partners)
• Qiming Venture Partners VII (Qiming Venture Partners)

Fundraising of the Year – Mid Cap

(Fund size - below $2 billion)       

• Advantage Partners VI (Advantage Partners)
• Ascendent Capital Partners III (Ascendent Capital Partners)
• NewQuest Asia Fund IV (NewQuest Capital Partners)
• Pacific Equity Partners VI (Pacific Equity Partners)
• VIG Partners Fund IV (VIG Partners)

Fundraising of the Year – Large Cap

(Fund size - $2 billion and above) 

• Carlyle Japan Partners IV (The Carlyle Group)
• Hahn & Co III (Hahn & Company)
• MBK Partners Fund V (MBK Partners)
• Primavera Capital Fund III (Primavera Capital Group)
• SSG Capital Partners V & SSG Capital Partners V Sidecar (SSG Capital)

Deal of the Year – Small Cap

(Equity commitment – below $50 million) 

• AIpark (Gaorong Capital/ZGC Capital)
• Fujitsu Interconnect Technologies (Advantage Partners)
• Shukun Technology (BOC International/CCBI Investment/China Creation Ventures/Huagai Capital)
• TaniGroup (Golden Gate Ventures/Intudo Ventures/Openspace Ventures/BRI Ventures/Tenaya Capital/UOB Venture Management/Vertex Ventures)
• XYZ Robotics (Gaorong Capital/Morningside Venture Capital/Source Code Capital)

Deal of the Year – Mid Cap

(Equity commitment – $50-199 million)

• Airwallex (ANZ Ventures/DST Global/Hillhouse Capital/Horizons Ventures/Salesforce Ventures/Sequoia Capital China/Tencent Holdings)
• Kakao M (Anchor Equity Partners)
• Miaoshou Doctor (CITIC Securities/Ince Capital Partners/Index Capital/Qiming Venture Partners/Sequoia Capital China)
• Perfect Diary (Boyu Capital/Hopu Investment/Tiger Global Management)
• Unacademy (Blume Ventures/Facebook/Nexus Venture Partners/Sequoia Capital India/Steadview Capital)

Deal of the Year – Large Cap

(Equity commitment – $200 million and above)

• Jio Platforms (Abu Dhabi Investment Authority/General Atlantic/Intel Capital/KKR/L Catterton/Mubadala Investment/Public Investment Fund/Qualcomm Ventures/Silver Lake/TPG/Vista Equity Partners)
• Kuaishou (Boyu Capital/Sequoia Capital China/Yunfeng Capital/Temasek Holdings/Tencent Holdings)
• Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings (GIC Private/KKR)
• Virgin Australia Holdings (Bain Capital)
• Wumart (Ascendent Capital Partners)

Exit of the Year – IPO

(Please see awards website for list of investors)

• ESR
• I-Mab Biopharma
• SBI Cards & Payment Services
• Venus Medtech
• Xpeng

Exit of the Year – Small Cap

(Equity commitment on entry – below $50 million)

• Au Small Finance Bank (ChrysCapital Partners)
• China Feihe (Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia)
• Nexus Day Hospitals (Mercury Capital)
• PaySense Services (Jungle Ventures/Nexus Venture Partners)
• WhiteHat Jr (Nexus Venture Partners/Omidyar Network/Owl Ventures)

Exit of the Year – Mid Cap

(Equity commitment on entry – $50-149 million)

• APM (Quadrant Private Equity)
• EMC Holdings (Affirma Capital)
• Laobaixing (EQT)
• Modern Star (Navis Capital Partners)
• Vati (NSSK)

Exit of the Year – Large Cap

(Equity commitment on entry – $150 million and above)

• Velocity Frequent Flyer (Affinity Equity Partners)
• Daesung Industrial Gases (MBK Partners)
• ESR (Warburg Pincus)
• H-Line Shipping (Hahn & Company)
• SBI Cards & Payment Services (The Carlyle Group)

Firm of the Year – Mid Cap

(AUM – below $5 billion)

• Advantage Partners
• Ascendent Capital Partners
• NewQuest Capital Partners
• Qiming Venture Partners
• Quadrant Private Equity

Firm of the Year – Large Cap

(AUM - $5 billion and above) 

• Hahn & Company
• KKR
• MBK Partners
• Sequoia Capital China
• Warburg Pincus

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