We have put together our shortlist of awards for the ceremony held in the evening of our London Symposium on 20 May. Winners last year included Intel Capital, Telefonica’s Amerigo, Charles Searle, of Naspers, and Tony Askew, of Reed Elsevier Ventures.
It is not too late, to submit a candidate for the award. The winners will be announced on the night at our Symposium.
This years categories include:
Powerbroker of the year – to be announced on the night
Lifetime achievement award – to be announced on the night
Unit of the Year
- Alibaba
- BP Ventures
- Chevron Technology Ventures
- Cisco
- Citi Ventures
- ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures
- Deutsche Telekom (T-Venture)
- GE Ventures
- GM Ventures
- Google Ventures
- IBM Venture Capital
- Intel Capital
- Nokia Growth Partners
- Qualcomm Ventures
- Robert Bosch Venture Capital
- Samsung Ventures
- SAP Ventures
- Siemens Venture Capital
- SR One (GlaxoSmithKline)
Fundraising of the Year
- Chevron – CTV Fund V ($90m)
- Dell – Strategic Innovation Venture Fund ($300m)
- IBM Venture Capital – Watson fund ($100m)
- LVMH – L Capital Asia II ($950m)
- SAP – SAP Ventures II ($651m)
- Unilever Ventures ($450m)
New entrant of the Year
- 7-Eleven – 7-Ventures
- Alibaba – US team
- Bloomberg – Bloomberg Beta
- Diageo – Distill Ventures
- E.On
- KPMG – KPMG Capital
- Mahle – Mahle Corporate Venture Capital
- Microsoft Ventures
M&A exit of the Year
- Climate Corporation ($930m) – Google Ventures and Monsanto
- Cyoptics ($400m) – Intel Capital, Cisco, Semi-Conductor Devices, Corning and Vitesse Semiconductor
- Nest ($3.2bn) – Google Ventures
- Waze ($1.3bn) – Qualcomm Ventures and BlueRun Ventures (Nokia spin-off)
- Whiptail ($415m) – Cisco Systems, SanDisk
IPO of the Year
- Akebia – Novartis Bioventures, Novo Ventures
- Care.com – USAA
- Castlight Health – Cleveland Clinic
- FireEye – Juniper, Norwest Venture Partners (Wells Fargo)
- JustDial – SAP Ventures
- Qiwi – Mail.ru and Mitsui
- RetailMeNot – Google Ventures
Large investment of the Year
- AutoNavi ($294m) – backed by Alibaba
- Box ($100m) – Itochu Technology Ventures, Macnica, Mitsui,Telefónica Digital, Telstra
- Flipkart ($200m) – Naspers
- Haier Electronics ($364m) – Alibaba
- JD.com ($215m) – backed by Tencent
- Mobileye ($400m) – Kraft, Motorola Solutions, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
- One Kings Lane ($112m) – backed by Scripps Networks Interactive
- Palantir ($100m) – In-Q-Tel, Reed Elsevier
- Pinterest ($225m) – backed by Rakuten
- Quikr ($90m) – Nokia Growth Partners, Norwest Venture Partners (Wells Fargo), eBay
- Skyonic Corporation ($128m) – Cenovus Energy, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures, Toyo-Thai Corporation Public Company Limited, Energy Technology Ventures, and BP Ventures
- Spotify ($250m) – entire round from Technology Crossover Ventures. Although previously backed by Coca-Cola
- SurveyMonkey ($444m) – backed by Google Capital
- TutorGroup ($100m) – Alibaba Group
- Uber ($363m) – backed by Google and Crunchfund (AOL-backed)
Sub – $50m Investment of the Year
- Ayasdi – Citi Ventures, GE Ventures
- Joyme – Fosun Venture Capital Investment, BlueRun Ventures (Nokia-backed)
- Medium – Google Ventures
- Persimmon – ABB Technology Ventures, Intel Capital, Nidec Sankyo
- Radius Intelligence – Amex Ventures, BlueRun Ventures (Nokia-backed)
- Reflektion – Intel Capital, Nike
- Shape Security – Allegis Capital, Google, Norwest (Wells Fargo-backed)
Best innovation – to be nominated by our advisory board.
Best Social Impact Investment – winner to be decided in association with our corporate social impact investing report partners Volans.