The Venture Intelligence APEX 24  Summit and Awards saw top professionals from Private Equity - Venture Capital investors and Advisory Firms throw light on the key trends affecting transactions in the current environment.

Highlights

EVENT PROCEEDINGS

The days proceedings started with the inaugural panel titled Focus on Private Equity featuring a diverse panel consisting of some of the most active PE funds in the country.

Speakers included:

• Gautam Singh, Partner, Trilegal (Moderator)

• Anuradha Ramachandran, Managing Partner, TVS Capital

• Nithya Easwaran, Managing Director, Multiples PE

• Shankar Narayanan, Founder, Sanaka Capital

• C. Venkat Subramanyam; Founder & Director; Veda Corporate Advisors

• Saurabh Chatterjee, Director, ChrysCapital

The PE panel was followed by the Focus on Growth Capital panel which focused on the key metrics that growth capital investors look for and the sectors they are scanning for investment opportunities currently.

Speakers included:

• Pranav Atit, Partner, Trilegal (Moderator)

• Imran Jafar, Managing Partner, Gaja Capital

• Niren Shah, Managing Director, Head Norwest India

• Chintan Kothari, Partner, Eight Roads Ventures

• Sandeep Kumar Jain, Co-founder, InteQuant Advisors

The third panel of the Summit was titled Focus on Venture Capital.

The panelists discussed what 2024 holds for VC investors.

Speakers included:

• Vishruta Kaul, Partner, Trilegal (Moderator)

• Piyush Bansal, Head, Aditya Birla Ventures

• Ashish Fafadia, Partner, Blume Ventures

• Tarun Davda, Managing Director, Matrix Partners India

• Kunjan Chikhlikar, Head, RPG Ventures

• Krithika Sivaraman, Senior Vice President, Indium Capital

• Arun Raghavan, Managing Partner, Arali Ventures

PE-VC Investors who participated in the Event included:

PE-VC Investors confirmed to participate are Aavishkaar Group, Aditya Birla Ventures, Arali Ventures, Blackstone, Blume Ventures, Cactus venture Partners, Cap70 Angels, Chiratae Ventures, ChrysCapital, Eight Roads Ventures, Gaja Capital, IAN, Invascent, ITI Growth Opportunities LLP, Jarvis Invest, JITO Angels, Kotak Securities, Kotak Strategic Situations Fund, Lightbox VC, Manipal Group, Matrix Partners India, Motilal Oswal Alternates, Multiples PE, Norwest India, Omnivore VC, Pentathlon VC, RPG Ventures, Sanaka Capital, Singularity Ventures, Speciale Invest, Stride Ventures, TPG NewQuest, TVS Capital & Many more

APEX 24 Awards

The Venture Intelligence-Awards for Private Equity Excellence (APEX) is dedicated to celebrating the best that the Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital industry has to offer. The APEX Awardees are selected based on both Self Nomination by the participating PE-VC firms as well as "crowd-sourced" nominations and voting from the Limited Partner, PE-VC and advisory communities. (The main criteria are Exit Track Record, New Fund Raises & Follow-on Funding Rounds for Portfolio Companies).

The awards this year received participation from over 2,600 folks from across the PE-VC ecosystem and recognized awardees across 6 categories.

APEX 24 Award Winners:

Speciale Invest received the Seed VC Investor of the Year 2023 Award

Stride Ventures received the Venture Debt Investor of the Year 2023 Award

Chiratae Ventures received the VC Fund of the Year 2023 Award

InvAscent received the Healthcare Investor of the Year 2023 Award

Motilal Oswal Alternates received the Growth Capital Investor of the Year 2023 Award

Blackstone received the Private Equity Fund of the Year 2023 Award