As well as investing in the biggest investments, Alibaba also secured the biggest exits, after it acquired China based digital map service AutoNavi for $1.5bn, having earlier backed it. Alibaba was also a big investor in China-based microblogging platform Weibo, which raised $285.6m in an initial public offering (IPO).
Nokia Growth Partners also secured a big exit with UCWeb, a mobile browser company with 500 million users, selling it to China-based Alibaba for a multi-billion dollar sum.
China-based technology company Tencent secured big wins from the IPO of JD.com, a China-based e-com- merce company, and the sale of China-based games developer Elex Technology to publishing firm Chinese Universe Publishing and Media for $433m.
Take-Two Interactive Software, a developer, publisher and distributor of computer games, was a big winner, after its portfolio company Twitch, a US-based live-video streaming service, was sold to YouTube for $1bn.
Norwest, the venturing unit of US bank Wells Fargo, secured exits including a $500m sale of US-based satellite imaging company Skybox, and MobileIron, a US-based developer of mobile device management software, which raised $100m in an IPO. Google Ventures was also an investor in Skybox.
Qualcomm Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the US-based semiconductor company, secured exits including the sale of Divide to US-based search engine Google, and the $300m sale of Wilocity to Qualcomm.
SAP Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the Germany-based software company, secured multiple exits, including the sale of business intelligence software producer Jaspersoft in a $184m deal to infrastructure software company Tibco Software. Jaspersoft was also backed by technology companies Red Hat and Quest Software.
Other exits included the $100m sale of a majority stake in Payscale, a US-based salary database company, and the IPOs of Five9, a US-based provider of cloud-based software, and Imprivata, a provider of authentication and security services for hospitals.
China-based electronics company Foxconn and Steamboat Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Walt Disney, were both winners in the IPO of camera maker GoPro, which raised $427m.