Forbes Ranks 15 Venture Investors With Most Midas List Appearances
Forbes published a ranking of venture investors who appeared on its annual Midas List at least 15 times since 2001. Four current or former Sequoia Capital partners rank among the top ten.
forbes.comForbes published a ranking of the 15 venture investors with the most appearances on the Midas List since the list began in 2001. The ranking covers investors who appeared on the list at least 15 times. Doug Leone and Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital each appeared 21 times. John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins recorded 20 appearances.
Ventures and Danny Rimer of Index Ventures each recorded 19 appearances. Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capital and Scott Sandell of New Enterprise Associates each recorded 18 appearances. Navin Chaddha of Mayfield Fund also recorded 18 appearances. Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital recorded 17 appearances.
Peter Thiel of Founders Fund and James Breyer of Breyer Capital each recorded 16 appearances. Neil Shen of HSG, Mary Meeker of Bond Capital, Bill Gurley of Benchmark, and Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz each recorded 15 appearances.
U.S. venture funds managed $262 billion when the Midas List started. The article notes that several listed investors backed companies including Google, Amazon, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Stripe.
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