The finalists for our awards on May 20 have now been selected. Please do let us know who you think should win.

We have now nailed down the finalists for the Global Corporate Venturing Awards 2014, trimming back our shortlist. The event is held on the evening of our London Symposium on 20 May. Awards winners last year included Intel Capital, Telefonica’s Amerigo, Charles Searle, of Naspers, and Tony Askew, of Reed Elsevier Ventures.

The Global Corporate Venturing Awards winners will be announced at a special gala dinner, at the MIllenium Hotel, on the first night of our Symposium. No submissions can be made now, but please do let Toby Lewis know who you think should win on tlewis@globalcorporateventuring.com 

Your vote can be counted alongside our distinguished editorial advisory board.

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
  • ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures
  • GE Ventures
  • Google Ventures
  • IBM Venture Capital
  • Intel Capital
  • Qualcomm 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
  • Randstad – Randstad Innovation Fund

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), Silicon Valley Bank
  • JustDial – SAP Ventures
  • Qiwi – Mail.ru and Mitsui
  • RetailMeNot – Google Ventures

Large investment of the Year

  • Cloudera ($900m) – Intel Capital, Google Ventures
  • Flipkart ($200m) – Naspers
  • JD.com ($215m) – backed by Tencent
  • Mobileye ($400m) – Kraft, Motorola Solutions, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
  • Palantir ($100m) – In-Q-Tel, Reed Elsevier
  • Pinterest ($225m) – backed by Rakuten
  • Skyonic Corporation ($128m) – Cenovus Energy, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures, Toyo-Thai Corporation Public Company Limited, Energy Technology Ventures, and BP Ventures
  • 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)
  • Takadu  – 3M New Ventures, ABB Technology Ventures, Emerald Technology Ventures
  • WellDoc – Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

Best Social Impact Venture –winner to be decided in association with our corporate social impact investing report partners Volans

If you are interested in attending the event please go to www.gcvsymposium.com for more details.