Feb 18; Mumbai

The APEX'25 PE-VC Summit saw top professionals from Private Equity - Venture Capital investors and Advisory Firms throw light on the key trends affecting transactions in the current environment.

EVENT PROCEEDINGS

The days proceedings started with The LP-GP Interface panel which focused on the evolving market for PE-VC exits & geo-political developments.

Speakers included:

• Vikram Gupta, Founder and Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures (Moderator)

• Hemal Mirani, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners

• Imran Jafar, Managing Partner, Gaja Capital

• Sunil Mishra, Partner, Adams Street Partners

• Dushyant Singh, Managing Director, Playbook Partners

• Akhil Awasthi, Managing Partner, Tata Capital Growth Fund

• Dr. Paramjeet Singh Makani, Managing Partner, The Wealth Company

The LP-GP panel was followed by the The Venture Capital View panel which focused on the key trends in the  Early Stage investing segment as well VC fund domiciling and related issues .

Speakers included:

• Lalit Valecha, Founding Partner, AVA Insights (Moderator)

• Shabarish Seshadrinathan, Vice President, Basiz Fund Services

• Sumit Sinha, Partner, Phoenix Legal

• Mahima Narsaria, Investment Team, Brand Capital

• Amish Dedhia, Principal, Chiratae Ventures

• Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner and Founder, Ideaspring Capital

• Subeer Monga, Partner, Sorin Investments

• Daryl Ng, Vice President, HarbourVest Partners

The next panel, titled The Private Equity Perspective, discussed aspects related to Fund Raising, Investment & Exits environment, as well as  portfolio management.

Speakers included:

• Jay Gandhi, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (Moderator)

• Rajeev Gupta, Founding Partner, Arpwood Capital

• Liam Woods, Head of Business Development, APAC, Apex Group

• Gaurav Sekhri, Partner, TVS Capital Funds

• Srinivas Baratam, Managing Director, Stakeboat Capital

• Craig Gifford, Head of Private Equity Funds and Co‐Investments, BII

• Ruchir Lahoty, Managing Partner, MegaDelta Capital

The APEX'25 Summit was followed by APEX'25 PE-VC Awards segment presented by TH Global Capital and Co-Presented by Brand Capital.

This segment featured a discussion between Sridhar Venkiteswaran, CEO, Avalon Consulting and Atul Raheja, Chairman and Founder of Lifelong Group & GP, Sporos  on the topic Startup Turnaround: The GoMechanic Case Study

The APEX Awards segment also saw a Fireside Chat with Vishal Mahajan, Director,  Brand Capital.

APEX'25 PE-VC 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 5,000 professionals from across the PE-VC ecosystem and recognized awardees across 6 categories.

APEX'25 Private Equity Awardees:

• Tata Capital Growth Fund received the MidMarket PE Investor of the Year 2024

• Kedaara Capital received the PE Fund Raise of the Year 2024

• Blackstone received the Private Equity Fund of the Year 2024