Global Corporate Venturing has decided the shortlist for its 2015 awards ceremony, which takes place at our London Symposium on the evening of June 2. The shortlist has been curated by GCV's editorial team and will be voted on by our editorial advisory board. The time period analysed was the period from today to the beginning of April 1, 2014.
Unit of the Year
Comcast Ventures
GE Ventures
Google Ventures
IBM Venture Capital
Intel Capital
Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
Naspers
Nokia Growth Partners
Novartis Venture Fund
Qualcomm Ventures
Samsung Ventures
SR One
SVB Capital
USAA
Fund of the Year
Axa Strategic Ventures – $226m
Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners – $620m
DRX Capital (Qualcomm Ventures and Novartis) – $100m
Google Ventures Europe -$100m
IDG Capital Partners – IDG China Venture Capital Fund IV – $586m
Infosys – Innovate in India fund – $250m
Mediatek Ventures – $300m
Norwest Venture Partners – Norwest Venture Partners XII – $1.2bn
Nokia Capital Partners – Connected Car Fund – $100m
New Entrant of the Year
American Family Ventures
Axa Strategic Ventures
Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners
DRX Capital (Qualcomm Ventures and Novartis)
Line
Mediatek Ventures
Orange Digital Ventures
Santander Innoventures
M&A Exit of the Year
Alios BioPharma – – $1.75bn to Johnson & Johnson – Novartis Venture Fund, Roche Venture Fund, SR One, Novo Ventures
Beats – $3bn to Apple – Universal Music, HTC
Maker Studios – $500m to Walt Disney Company – Singtel Innov8, Time Warner Investments, Canal+, Team Downey
Skybox Imaging – $500m to Google – Norwest Venture Partners
Twitch – $970m to Amazon– Take Two Interactive
IPO of the Year
Alibaba – $25bn – Yahoo!, Softbank Corporation
Lending Club – $870m – Google Capital, Norwest Venture Partners
Markit – $1.5bn – Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan
Rocket Internet – $1.8bn – United Internet, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, Access Industries, Holtzbrinck Ventures
Truecar – $70m – USAA, Capital One, DealerTrack
Large Investment of the Year
Magic Leap – $542m – Google, Qualcomm Ventures
Snapdeal – $627m – Softbank, eBay, Intel Capital
Vice Media – $250m – A&E Television Networks, 21st Century Fox, WPP
Kuaidi Dache and Didi Dache ($1.3bn raised by both, ahead of merger)
– Alibaba, Tencent, Softbank Internet
Uber – $1.8bn – Baidu, Google Ventures, Times Internet
Flipkart – $1.9bn raised in 2014 – Naspers
Legendary Entertainment – Softbank
Xiaomi – $1.1bn – Qualcomm Ventures
Sub-$50m Investment of the Year
Kabbage – UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Softbank Capital, BlueRun Ventures
Verdezyne –Sime Darby, BP Ventures, DSM Venturing
Instacart – American Express Ventures
Udacity – Bertelsmann, Recruit and Cox Enterprises
Veracode- Symantec, In-Q-Tel, Rovi
Legal Firm of the Year
Baker Botts
Cooley
DLA Piper
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Financial Firm of the Year
Allen & Co
Goldman Sachs
Silicon Valley Bank
Morgan Stanley
JP Morgan
Software Service Provider of the Year
Relevant EquityWorks
Salesforce
Sungard
Wellspring
Consultancy Firm of the Year
Bell Mason Group
Boston Consulting Group
Clareo
Deloitte
Ernst & Young
KPMG
McKinsey
PwC
Talent Award of the Year
To be picked alongside our executive search sponsor Intramezzo
Lifetime Achievement Award
Decided by Global Corporate Venturing in consultation with the chair of our advisory board, Claudia Fan Munce, head of IBM Venture Capital.