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.