ROPEA Awards Gala 2024
ROPEA Awards Gala 2024 took place on 4 December 2024 at the prestigious InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest. This highly anticipated event broght together leaders from across the private equity and venture capital sectors to celebrate exceptional achievements over the past year, from 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2024.
About the Awards
Now in its second edition, the ROPEA Awards Gala is our annual celebration of excellence in the private equity and venture capital industry. Building on last year’s success, the 2024 awards highlighted the outstanding management teams, high-performing portfolio companies, impactful investments and the advisory teams that have significantly contributed to the sector.
Award Categories
This year, we honored excellence through distinct categories, ensuring recognition across both private equity and venture capital sectors. ROPEA members had cast their votes for finalists chosen by an esteemed jury of experts.
HERE ARE THE WINNERS OF THE 2024 ROPEA AWARDS:
- Most Active Fund or Fund Manager (Private Equity): Morphosis Capital
- Most Active Fund or Fund Manager (Venture Capital): Early Game Partners
- Deal of the Year (PE and VC) – Investment round of 60 mil. USD of FintechOS, a GapMinder portfolio company
- Best Performing Portfolio Company (Private Equity): Medima, a Morphosis Capital portfolio company
- Best Performing Portfolio Company (Venture Capital): Druid AI, a GapMInder portfolio company
- Most Impactful Investment: Green Group, an Abris portfolio company
- Special Prize for M&A Advisory Services: BICF/IMAP
- Legal Adviser of the Year: RTPR
- Financial & Tax Adviser of the Year: PwC Romania
- Best Young Professional of the Year: Bogdan Bunea, Investment Executive, MidEuropa
The Jury
Our distinguished panel of external experts has shortlisted finalists for each category, ensuring a rigorous and transparent selection process:
- Camelia Dragoi – Mandate Manager, EIF
- Cristian Nacu – Senior Country Officer for Romania and Moldova, IFC
- Victoria Zinchuk – Country Director Romania, EBRD
- Radu Craciun – CEO BCR Pensii, President APAPR
- Aurel Bernat – Board Member, BT Pensii
The Guest Speaker of the Gala was Mr. Horia Roman Patapievici, who held a lecture on “Capitalism as the source of prosperity”.
The Partners
This year’s event was made possible with the generous support of our partners and sponsors:
Gold Sponsors: Van Campen Liem, Banca Transilvania
Silver Sponsors: Forvis Mazars in Romania, MidEuropa, Morphosis Capital, Patria Bank, Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii, PwC, RTPR, Taxhouse.
Supported by: LEVEL 20
