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The Global Corporate Venturing Awards

The first GCV event ran in 2010, but in the short time since then the Global Corporate Venturing Awards have fast become the industry celebratory event of the year, embracing and rewarding the great and the good from around the globe.

Categories for 2015 include:

  • Legal Firm of the Year
    Baker Botts
    Cooley
    DLA Piper - Award Winner!
    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

  • Financial Firm of the Year
    Allen & Co
    Goldman Sachs
    Silicon Valley Bank - Award Winner!
    Morgan Stanley
    JP Morgan

  • Software Service Provider of the Year
    Relevant EquityWorks
    Salesforce - Award Winner!
    Sungard
    Wellspring

  • Consultancy Firm of the Year
    Bell Mason Group
    Boston Consulting Group
    Clareo
    Deloitte
    Ernst & Young
    KPMG
    McKinsey
    PwC - Award Winner!

  • Unit of the Year (sponsored by Relevant Equity Systems)
    Comcast Ventures
    GE Ventures
    Google Ventures
    IBM Venture Capital
    Intel Capital
    Merck Global Health Innovation Fund - Award Winner!
    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 - Award Winner!
    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 (sponsored by American Express)
    American Family Ventures
    Axa Strategic Ventures
    Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners
    DRX Capital (Qualcomm Ventures and Novartis) - Award Winner!
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    Mediatek Ventures
    Orange Digital Ventures
    Santander Innoventures

  • M&A Exit of the Year (sponsored by PwC)
    Alios BioPharma - - $1.75bn to Johnson & Johnson - Novartis Venture Fund, Roche Venture Fund, SR One, Novo Ventures
    Beats - $3bn to Apple – Universal Music, HTC - Award Winner!
    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 - Award Winner!
    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- Award Winner!

  • Sub-$50m Investment of the Year (sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank)
    Kabbage – UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, Softbank Capital, BlueRun Ventures
    Verdezyne –Sime Darby, BP Ventures, DSM Venturing
    Instacart – American Express Ventures - Award Winner!
    Udacity – Bertelsmann, Recruit and Cox Enterprises
    Veracode- Symantec, In-Q-Tel, Rovi

  • Talent Award of the Year (sponsored by Intramezzo)
    Naspers MIH - Award Winner!

  • 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.
    Arvind Sodhani - Award Winner!

2014 GCV Awards Winners
  • Lifetime Achievement Award:
Bob Ackerman
  • Powerbroker of the Year:
Arvind Sodhani
  • Unit of the Year:
Intel Capital
  • Fundraising of the Year:
IBM Venture Capital – Watson Fund
  • New Entrant of Year:
Microsoft Ventures
  • M&A Exit of the Year:
Waze
  • IPO of the Year:
Fireeye, backed by Juniper Networks
and Norwest Venture Partners
  • Large Investment of the Year:
Cloudera, backed by Google Ventures,
Intel Capital
  • Sub $50m Investment of the Year:
Takadu, backed by 3M new Ventures,
ABB Technology Ventures, Emerald Technology Investors
  • Best Social Impact Investment of the Year:
CO2Nexus, backed by Patagonia

The GCV Pitch Event 2015

Hear from some of the brightest leaders in the innovation ecosystem at a special event for leading corporate venture and corporate development executives. You’ll have the opportunity to review 60 selected high-quality early-stage and growth-stage technology businesses, presenting across 2 streams, each with pitches of just 2 minutes.

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