Voting for the 2014 AVCJ Awards has now closed
Voting for the 2013 AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards has now closed. Thank you for taking the opportunity to pay tribute to the leading fundraises, investments, exits, individuals and firms of the past 12 months.
Votes were cast via the AVCJ Awards website (www.avcjforum.com/static/avcj-awards), which also includes full details of the process, rules and past winners. No more than 10 votes were accepted from the employees of a single firm. The public has a 50% say in the final outcome, with a judging panel of industry experts and the AVCJ Editorial Board each accounting for 25%.
Based in part on recommendations submitted by the private equity community, 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
- DCM Ventures China Fund (DCM VII) (DCM)
- GGV Capital V (GGV Capital)
- Morningside China TMT Fund III (Morningside Technologies)
- Qiming Venture Partners IV (Qiming Venture Partners)
- Shunwei China Internet Fund II (Shunwei Capital Partners)
FUNDRAISING OF THE YEAR - MID CAP
(Fund size - below $1 billion)
- Kedaara Capital I (Kedaara Capital)
- Orchid Asia VI (Orchid Asia)
- Quadrant Private Equity No.4 (Quadrant Private Equity)
- SSG Capital Partners II (SSG Capital)
- Vision Knight Capital (China) Fund II (Vision Knight Capital Partners)
FUNDRAISING OF THE YEAR - LARGE CAP
(Fund size - above $1 billion)
- Affinity Asia Pacific Fund IV (Affinity Equity Partners)
- CDH Fund V (CDH Investments)
- CVC Capital Partners Asia Pacific IV (CVC Capital Partners)
- Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia IV (Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia)
- Navis Asia Fund VII (Navis Capital Partners)
DEAL OF THE YEAR - VENTURE CAPITAL
- Flipkart (Tiger Global/Naspers/GIC Private/Morgan Stanley Investment Management/DST Global/Accel Partners/Iconiq Capital/Sofina)
- LanzaTech NZ (Siemens Venture Capital/K1W1/Qiming Venture Partners/Khosla Ventures/Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund/China International Capital Corp)
- Mogujie (Hopu Investments/Trustbridge Partners/Qiming Venture Partners/IDG Capital Partners)
- Snapdeal (eBay/Intel Capital/Bessemer Venture Partners/Nexus Venture Partners/Kalaari Capital/Saama Capital)
- Youxinpai (Warburg Pincus/Tiger Global)
DEAL OF THE YEAR - MID CAP
(Investment size - below $100 million)
- CTOS Data Systems (Creador)
- Estia Health (Quadrant Private Equity)
- IMAX China (FountainVest Partners/China Media Capital)
- National Bulk Handling Corp (India Value Fund Advisors)
- Union Bank of Colombo (TPG Capital)
DEAL OF THE YEAR - LARGE CAP
(Investment size - above $100 million)
- Goodpack (KKR)
- Nanfu Battery (CDH Investments)
- Sinopec Marketing (CICC/Bohai Industrial Investment Fund Management/RRJ Capital/Haixia Capital/CITIC Goldstone /Hopu Investments)
- Sony Corp - personal computer business (Japan Industrial Partners)
- Velocity Frequent Flier Program (Affinity Equity Partners)
EXIT OF THE YEAR - IPO
- Alibaba Group (Silver Lake/Yunfeng Capital/CITIC Capital/Boyu Capital/Asia Alternatives/Pavilion Capital/Siguler Guff)
- Asaleo Care (Pacific Equity Partners)
- Healthscope (The Carlyle Group/TPG Capital)
- JD.com (Tiger Global/Hillhouse Capital Management/DST Advisors/Capital Today)
- Nord Anglia Education (Baring Private Equity Asia)
EXIT OF THE YEAR - MID CAP
(Investment size on entry - below $100 million)
- Dick Smith Holdings (Anchorage Capital Partners)
- Golden Gate (Mekong Capital)
- Tirumala Milk Products (The Carlyle Group)
- United Cinemas (Advantage Partners)
- Yonghui Superstores (Headland Capital Partners)
EXIT OF THE YEAR - LARGE CAP
(Investment size on entry - above $100 million)
- CSPC Pharmaceutical (Hony Capital)
- Matahari Department Store (CVC Capital Partners)
- Oriental Brewery (Affinity Equity Partners/KKR)
- Peters Ice Cream (Pacific Equity Partners)
- Techpack Solutions (MBK Partners)
VC PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
- Hurst Lin (DCM)
- Jixun Foo (GGV Capital)
- Richard Liu (Morningside Technologies)
- Naren Gupta (Nexus Venture Partners)
- J.P. Gan (Qiming Venture Partners)
PE PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
- K.Y Tang (Affinity Equity Partners)
- Shuge Jiao (CDH Investments)
- David Liu & Julian Wolhardt (KKR)
- Gabriel Li (Orchid Asia)
- Chris Hadley (Quadrant Private Equity)
FIRM OF THE YEAR
- Affinity Equity Partners
- CVC Capital Partners
- KKR
- Pacific Equity Partners
- Quadrant Private Equity
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