The Forbes Midas list is the annual ranking by Forbes magazine of the most influential and best-performing venture capital investors. Described by Kara Swisher as the "Oscars for venture capitalists in tech,"[1] the Midas List uses parameters that include the first-day market capitalization of IPOs and the opinions of a panel of experts.[2]
The name alludes to the mythological King Midas, renowned for his ability to turn anything he touched into gold. Forbes partnered with venture capital fund TrueBridge Capital Partners to create the list from 2011 to 2016.[3][4][5][6]
Midas List Top 30, 2023
editAccording to Forbes, the top 30 venture capitalists in 2023 are as follows:[7]
| Rank | Name | Firm | Notable Deal | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neil Shen | Sequoia China | ByteDance | Hong Kong |
| 2 | Micky Malka | Ribbit Capital | Coinbase | Menlo Park |
| 3 | Alfred Lin | Sequoia | Citadel Securities | San Francisco |
| 4 | Richard Liu | 5Y Capital | Xiaomi | Hong Kong |
| 5 | Navin Chaddha | Mayfield Fund | HashiCorp | Saratoga, California |
| 6 | Garry Tan | Y Combinator | Coinbase | San Francisco |
| 7 | Zhen Zhang | Gaorong Capital | Pinduoduo | Beijing |
| 8 | Lee Fixel | Addition | Freshworks | New York City |
| 9 | Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | Coinbase | New York City |
| 10 | Hans Tung | GGV Capital | Airbnb | San Francisco |
| 11 | David Frankel | Founder Collective | Coupang | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 12 | Sameer Gandhi | Accel | Freshworks | San Francisco |
| 13 | Mike Speiser | Sutter Hill Ventures | Snowflake | London |
| 14 | Reid Hoffman | Greylock | Airbnb | Palo Alto |
| 15 | Satish Dharmaraj | Redpoint Ventures | Cockroach | Saratoga, California |
| 16 | Danny Rimer | Index Ventures | Figma | London |
| 17 | Eric Vishria | Benchmark | Confluent | Atherton, California |
| 18 | Jan Hammer | Index Ventures | Adyen | London |
| 19 | Luciana Lixandru | Sequoia | UiPath | London |
| 20 | Scott Shleifer | Tiger Global Management | Upstox | New York City |
| 21 | Pejman Nozad | Pear VC | DoorDash | Atherton, California |
| 22 | Saar Gur | CRV | DoorDash | Palo Alto |
| 23 | Ben Sun | Primary Venture Partners | Coupang | New York City |
| 24 | Peter Fenton | Benchmark | Airtable | San Francisco |
| 25 | Chris Dixon | Andreessen Horowitz | Coinbase | Menlo Park |
| 26 | Mar Hershenson | Pear VC | DoorDash | Los Altos, California |
| 27 | Roelof Botha | Sequoia | Unity Software | Menlo Park |
| 28 | Anna Fang | ZhenFund | Xiaohongshu | Beijing |
| 29 | Murat Bicer | CRV | Datadog | Atherton, California |
| 30 | Mike Volpi | Index Ventures | Confluent | Woodside, California |
References
edit- ^ "Accel's Breyer Leads Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors Again, While Kleiner's Doerr Leads in Media Scrutiny". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
- ^ Primack, Dan (April 6, 2011). "Nitpicking the Forbes Midas List". Fortune. Archived from the original on January 30, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
- ^ Perlroth, Nicole. "Midas: The Methodology - Forbes.com". Forbes.
- ^ Geron, Tomio (May 2, 2012). "Midas 2012: The Methodology - Forbes". Forbes.
- ^ Geron, Tomio (May 8, 2013). "Midas 2013: The Methodology - Forbes". Forbes.
- ^ Konrad, Alex. "The Top 10 Venture Capital Investors In The World: Midas List 2016". Forbes. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- ^ "The Midas List 2023". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-06-19.