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APEX'19 Summit & Awards witnessed the par�cipa�on of the Who's Who of the Indian PrivateEquity & Venture Capital ecosystem. The Summit saw leading top professionals from PE-VC firmsand Advisory Firms throw light on the latest trends affec�ng transac�ons - PE, VC and M&A - in thecurrent environment. The APEX'19 Awards recognized the leading PE and VC firms - for transac�ons in the year 2018 -across 14 categories. The Awards Dinner provided a great opportunity for advisory professionalsand entrepreneurs to catch up & network with top PE-VC Fund Managers in a relaxed se�ng. EB5 USA Services was the Presen�ng Sponsor of the event.

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EVENT PROCEEDINGS

The event kicked off with the Venture Capital panel covering trends in venture capital investmentsand exits, sectors investors are looking to back, legal and regulatory pi�alls, etc.

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(L-R): Sesh A.V, MD, Basiz Fund Services; Sudhir Sethi, Chairman, Chiratae Ventures; Bharat Banka,Member, Indian Angel Network (IAN); Anand Lunia, Partner, India Quo�ent; Archana Khosla,Partner, Ver�ces Partners; Sameer Nath, Partner, Iron Pillar Fund

The VC panel was followed by the M&A Panel covering how entrepreneurs and companies canavoid the failures of corporate M&A.

(L-R): LC Singh, Execu�ve Vice Chairman - Nihilent; Gowri S Subramanian, CEO - Aspire Systems;Pravin Advani, Co-Founder - SA Global Advisors; Sumit Sinha, Partner - DMD Advocates; YeshasviniRamaswamy, CPO - Mnagenome; Rajeev Agrawal, Partner - Ambit Pragma

The Private Equity panel covered Global and Domes�c events and trends that could impact PEInvestments & Exits in the coming months.

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(L-R): Santosh Sreedhar, Partner - Avalon Consul�ng; Shyam Pandya, Partner - Economic LawsPrac�ce; Niten Lalpuria, MD - Paragon Partners; Amit Jain, MD - Blackstone; Alok Gupta, Advisor -Founda�on Private Equity; Harjit Singh, Founder - EB5 USA Services

APEX AWARDS PROCEEDINGS

The Apex Awards session was kicked off by a fire-side chat with Kiran Reddy, CEO of SPI Group whorecounted lessons from the journey of building the "Sathyam Cinemas" Experience.

The APEX'19 Award winners were:

Accelerator of the year - Axilor Ventures

Seed VC Investor of the year - Blume Ventures

Early Stage VC of the year - Sequoia Capital India

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Family Office Investor of the year - Astarc Ventures

Impact Investor of the year - Asha Impact

VC Fund Raise of the year - Sequoia Capital India

Growth Capital VC Investor of the year - Norwest Venture Partners

Strategic Investor of the year - Naspers

Real Estate Investor of the year - Apollo Global

Healthcare Investor of the year - Tata Capital Healthcare Fund

Mid-Market PE Investor of the year - Gaja Capital

Private Equity Fund Raise of the year - ChrysCapital

Buyout Fund of the year - Blackstone

Private Equity Investor of the year - ChrysCapital

Investors @ the Event

Blume Ventures

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Event Partners

We thank everyone who made the event a grand success.