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SAIF, Kedaara Capital bag 2 awards each at Venture Intelligence APEX’18 PE-VC Awards

Mumbai, India, March 6, 2013: Kedaara Capital and SAIF Partners bagged two awards each as part of the Venture Intelligence “Awards for Private Equity Excellence” (APEX) event organized by Venture Intelligence. SAIF Partners bagged the VC Exit of the Year – 2017 Award (for the part exit from Paytm/One97 Communications) and the New Fund Raise of the Year – Venture Capital - 2017 Award. Kedaara Capital won the Best Private Equity Firm – Special Situations – 2017 the New Fund Raise of the Year – Private Equity - 2017.

The event opened with a Fireside Chat with V Vaidyanathan, Founder & Executive Chairman, Capital First interviewed by Sesh A.V, Managing Director, Basiz Fund Services


Snapshots of the awards ceremony:


Sesh AV, Managing Director, Basiz Fund Services presents the Venture Capital Investment of the Year award to Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Partner, Artiman Ventures.


Nagaraja Prakasam, Board Member, Sattva Consulting presents the Impact Investor of the Year award to Varun Saini, Program Manager , Michael & Susan Dell Foundation


David Jaegly, Deputy Managing Director, SBI-SG Global Securities presents the Corporate Venture Capital Investor of the Year award to Ashutosh Sharma, India Head - Investments and M&A of Naspers Ventures

 

Sesh AV, Managing Director, Basiz Fund Services presents the New Fund Raise of the Year - Venture Capital award to Deepak Gaur, Managing Director, SAIF Partners


Rajesh Begur, Managing Partner, ARA Law presents the Venture Capital Exit of the Year award to Deepak Gaur, Managing Director, SAIF Partners


Loknath Mishra, ICICI Bank Global Markets presents the Seed Capital Investment of the Year award to Sourabh Gupta, Co-founder & CEO of Vernacular.ai and Revant Bhat, Partner, Kalaari Capital-KStart


Sujjain Talwar, Partner, Economic Laws Practice presents the Private Equity Investor of the Year - Special Situation award to Devadatta Rajadhyaksha, Financial Controller, Kedaara Capital


David Jaegly, Deputy Managing Director, SBI-SG Global Securities presents the Private Equity Investor of the Year - Infrastructure award to Shantanu Chakraborty,  ‎Director - Infrastructure Finance Division, ‎Asian Development Bank


Sesh AV, Managing Director, Basiz Fund Services presents the Private Equity Investment of the Year - Listed Enterprise award to Nithya Easwaran, Managing Director at Multiples


Sesh AV, Managing Director, Basiz Fund Services presents the New Fund Raise of the Year - Private Equity award to Devadatta Rajadhyaksha, Financial Controller, Kedaara Capital


David Jaegly, Deputy Managing Director, SBI-SG Global Securities presents the Private Equity Investor of the Year – Investments award to  Vishal Mahadevia, Managing Director; India Co-Head & Member of Warburg Pincus’s Global Executive Management Group and Narendra Ostwal, Managing Director of Warburg Pincus India 


Sujjain Talwar, Partner, Economic Laws Practice presents the Private Equity Investor of the Year 2017 – Buyouts award to Srikrishna Dwaram, Partner, TrueNorth


Sujjain Talwar, Partner, Economic Laws Practice presents the Private Equity Investor of the Year 2017 – Buyouts award to Kunal Shroff, Managing Partner of ChrysCapital

Snapshot of the awardees with keynote speaker V Vaidyanathan:


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