Midas List Explained

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

According 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Accel's Breyer Leads Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors Again, While Kleiner's Doerr Leads in Media Scrutiny . 2022-04-27 . AllThingsD . en-US.
2. News: Primack. Dan. Nitpicking the Forbes Midas List. Fortune. April 6, 2011. August 30, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120130123753/http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/06/nitpicking-the-forbes-midas-list/. January 30, 2012. dead.
3. News: Midas: The Methodology - Forbes.com. Forbes . Nicole . Perlroth .
4. News: Midas 2012: The Methodology - Forbes . Forbes . Tomio . Geron . May 2, 2012.
5. News: Midas 2013: The Methodology - Forbes . Forbes . Tomio . Geron . May 8, 2013.
6. Web site: Konrad. Alex. The Top 10 Venture Capital Investors In The World: Midas List 2016. Forbes. 20 October 2016.
7. Web site: The Midas List 2023 . 2023-06-19 . Forbes . en.