AVCJ Awards
Asia Awards: Special Achievement – Lewis Rutherfurd
In AVCJ's 25th year, the Special Achievement Award – which recognizes an individual who has distinguished himself or herself over a long period of time in developing the industry – went to a man who can claim more credit than most for getting the publication...
Asia Awards: VC Professional of the Year – Sanjeev Aggarwal
SanjeevAggarwal, managing partner at Helion Venture Partners, reflects on a successful fundraise, the popularity of Indian venture capital, and a portfolio that is becoming increasingly international
AVCJ honored at State Street Asia Press Awards
Asian Venture Capital Journal was honored at the 2012 State Street Institutional Press Awards, Asia Pacific, winning two prizes for its reporting on the private equity industry.
Please vote in the AVCJ India Awards
Voting has opened for the 2012 AVCJ Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards. The region’s private equity community has until November 26 to pay tribute to the leading fundraising, investments, exits, individuals and firms of the past 12 months....
Last chance to vote in the AVCJ Indian Awards
Voting for the 2012 AVCJ Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards closes today. The region’s private equity community has until 5 p.m. (Hong Kong time) to pay tribute to the leading fundraising, investments, exits, individuals and firms of the past...
Bain Capital wins Firm of the Year at 2012 AVCJ Awards
12th AVCJ Asia Awards: CVC’s Roy Kuan named PE Professional of the Year; Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia takes Private Equity Deal of the Year; Inter-Asia’s Lewis Rutherfurd wins special achievement honor
Cast your vote in the AVCJ Awards
Voting has opened for the 2012 AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards. The region’s private equity community has until October 31 to pay tribute to the leading fundraising, investments, exits, individuals and firms of the past 12 months.
Matrix, Lightspeed invest $5m in India's LimeRoad
Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners have invested $5 million in Series A funding for LimeRoad.com, a social commerce site aimed at women in India.
Last chance to vote in the 2012 AVCJ Awards
Members of Asia’s PE community have until October 31 to cast their votes in the 2012 AVCJ Asian Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards.
Bain, CVC lead nominations for 2012 AVCJ Awards
Bain Capital leads the way with four nominations in the 2012 AVCJ Asian Private Equity & Venture Capital Award, including the Firm of the Year category where it will compete for the honor against Archer Capital, Hony Capital, KKR and Navis Capital Partners....
AVCJ Asia Awards 2012: Voting opens Monday
Voting opens on Monday for the 2012 AVCJ Asian Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards. The AVCJ Editorial Board, in consultation with a judging panel of industry experts, has put together shortlists of nominees. We now invite Asia's private equity community...
VCs invest $1.2m in Japanese website Retty
GREE ventures, NTT investment Partners and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital have jointly invested JPY100 million ($1.2 million) into Retty, a Japanese social restaurant guide.
Nominations open for the 2012 AVCJ India Awards
The AVCJ Editorial Board is pleased to announce that nominations for the 2012 Awards are now open. We are inviting our entire reader base and many others in the industry to put forward candidates to be considered for the nomination shortlist.
Launching the 2012 AVCJ India Awards
India sees relatively few big-ticket private equity deals outside the infrastructure space. As such, Bain Capital’s $851 million investment in Hero Honda Motors last March, was an outlier – and by far the largest buyout of 2011.
Nominations for the 2012 AVCJ Awards close today
Nominations for the 2012 Asian Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards close on Friday. We invite you to take this last chance to acknowledge the leading fundraises, investments, exits, individuals and firms over the last 12 months.
Nominations open for the 2012 AVCJ Awards
Will it be Hony Capital Fund V, which closed at $2.4 billion in January 2012, becoming China’s largest US dollar-denominated vehicle in four years? The Chinese GP spent barely four months in the market, exceeding its previous vehicle by more than $1 billion....
Have your say in the 2012 AVCJ Awards
Last year Archer Capital scooped the prize for Firm of the Year, Baring Private Equity Asia was honored for its fund raise, and Affinity Equity Partners and Unitas Capital won plaudits for best exit. Unitas also claimed the prize for PE Deal of the Year,...
AVCJ China Awards: VC Professional of the Year – Bo Feng
Bo Feng, founding partner of Ceyuan Ventures, on the treats and trials of VC investing in China
AVCJ China Awards: RMB Fundraising of the Year – Cowin Capital
After barely three months in the market, Shenzhen-based Cowin Capital successfully closed its Nanhai Growth Fund V in June 2011 at a total of RMB2.5 billion ($393 million). The vehicle took the VC firm’s total assets under management past RMB7.5 billion....
AVCJ China Awards: VC Deal of the Year – Dianping.com
As China’s leading restaurant reviews website, Dianping.com has developed a business model that is difficult for others to replicate. VC backers TrustBridge, Lightspeed, Sequoia and Qiming don’t expect this to change
AVCJ China Awards: PE Deal of the Year – Alibaba Group
Silver Lake started building relations with Alibaba Group almost as soon as it launched its Asia operations in 2008. It was the logical thing to do: the private equity firm assiduously builds relationships with senior management at most of the world’s...
AVCJ China Awards: PE Exit of the Year – Beijing Leader & Harvest
Much is made of the commercial implications of China’s clean energy drive. The government has pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and energy intensity, promote industrial efficiency and minimize industrial pollution, protect forests, curb motor...
AVCJ China Awards: PE Professional of the Year – David Liu
David Liu, KKR member and head of the firm’s China operations, explains how the drop in public market valuations has created a swath of deal-making opportunities
AVCJ China Awards: Firm of the Year – Hony Capital
Hony Capital further endorsed its claim to be China’s preeminent domestic PE firm, raising a $2.4 billion US dollar fund and securing some landmark investments