Forbes Publishes List of 15 Venture Investors With Most Midas Appearances
The ranking covers investors who appeared on the Forbes Midas List at least 15 times since 2001. It lists names, firms, appearance counts, and selected investments.
forbes.comForbes published its ranking of the 15 venture investors with the most appearances on the Midas List since the list began in 2001. The article states that only these investors reached 15 or more appearances over the 25-year period. It provides data on total appearances, average and best ranks, first and last years on the list, and selected portfolio companies.
1 and a best rank of No. 4 in 2013. His listed deals include Wiz, Nubank, RingCentral, ServiceNow, and Rackspace. 5 and a best rank of No. 1 in 2006. His listed deals include Google, LinkedIn, PayPal, Yahoo, and Stripe. 2. His listed deals include Google, Amazon, DoorDash, Slack, and Netscape.
Ventures recorded 19 appearances. His listed deals include Juniper and OpenAI, which Forbes states was valued at $852 billion and is reportedly preparing an initial public offering. His listed deals include Figma, Etsy, Dropbox, King, and Notion. Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capital recorded 18 appearances.
His listed deals include Yelp, Elastic, Twitter, Sierra, and New Relic. Scott Sandell of New Enterprise Associates recorded 18 appearances. His listed deals include Cloudflare, Coursera, Robinhood, Patreon, and Workday. Navin Chaddha of Mayfield Fund recorded 18 appearances.
His listed deals include Lyft, HashiCorp, Akamai, Poshmark, and SolarCity. Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital recorded 17 appearances. His listed deals include MongoDB, Eventbrite, Unity, Block, and YouTube. Peter Thiel of Founders Fund recorded 16 appearances.
His listed deals include Palantir, Stripe, SpaceX, Facebook, and Airbnb. James Breyer of Breyer Capital recorded 16 appearances. His listed deals include Facebook, Etsy, Circle, Spotify, and Datalogix. Neil Shen of HSG recorded 15 appearances. His listed deals include ByteDance, Meituan, Pinduoduo, Ant Group, and Kuaishou.
Mary Meeker of Bond Capital recorded 15 appearances. Her listed deals include Canva, Facebook, Spotify, Ring, and AlphaSense. Bill Gurley of Benchmark recorded 15 appearances. His listed deals include Uber, GrubHub, OpenTable, Snapchat, and Zillow. Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz recorded 15 appearances.
His listed deals include Coinbase, Wiz, Databricks, Skype, and Lyft.
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