Forbes Releases 2020 Midas List

Forbes, in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Partners, has released the Midas List 2020, which ranks the most performing venture capitalists at a global level.

The #1 is Sequoia Capital China’s Neil Shen, followed by #2 Andrew Braccia, Accel, and #3 Roelof Botha of Sequoia. The list features 22 Chinese investors 12 newcomers, 6 returnees, and 11 women, led by Mary Meeker, as usual in the latest years.

The list below shows the name of the professional, the firm, the notable investment made during the past 12 months and the city in which they operate.

1. Neil Shen – Sequoia Capital China – ByteDance – Hong Kong

2. Andrew Braccia – Accel – Slack – Hillsborough

3. Roelof Botha – Sequoia Capital – Square – Menlo Park

4. Ben Horowitz – Andreessen Horowitz – Okta – Atherton

5. Navin Chaddha – Mayfield Fund – Lyft – Saratoga

6. Richard Liu – Morningside Ventures – Xiaomi – Shanghai

7. Bill Gurley – Benchmark – Uber – Portola Valley

8. Mary Meeker – Bond Capital – Spotify – Woodside

9. Eric Paley – Founder Collective – The Trade Desk – Boston

10. Hans Tung – GGV Capital – Peloton – San Francisco

11. Rob Hayes – First Round – Uber – San Francisco

12. Douglas Leone Sequoia Capital – Nubank – Atherton

13. JP Gan – INCE Capital – BiliBili – Shanghai

14. Kathy Xu – Capital Today – Meituan Dianping – Hong Kong

15. Sameer Gandhi – Accel – CrowdStrike -San Francisco

16. Lee Fixel – Addition – Peloton – New York

17. Bill Trenchard – First Round – Looker – Woodside

18. Zhen Zhang – Gaorong Capital – Pinduoduo – Beijing

19. Xiaojun Li – IDG Capital – Pinduoduo

20. Jeff Jordan – Andreessen Horowitz – Airbnb – Portola Valley

21. James Mi – Lightspeed China Partners – Pinduoduo

22. Brian Singerman – Founders Fund – Stemcentrx – San Francisco

23. Neeraj Agrawal – Battery Ventures – Brightree – Boston

24. Xiaoping Xu – ZhenFund – Meicai – Beijing

25. Peter Fenton – Benchmark – Elastic – San Francisco

26. Scott Sandell – New Enterprise Associates – Cloudflare – Portola Valley

27. Ravi Mhatre – Lightspeed Venture Partners – ThoughtSpot – Menlo Park

28. Robert Nelsen – ARCH Venture Partners – Vir Biotechnology – Seattle

29. Chris Dixon – Andreessen Horowitz – Coinbase – Menlo Park

30. Steven Ji – Sequoia Capital China – Ele.me – Shanghai

31. Hemant Taneja _ General Catalyst – Livongo – Palo Alto

32. Alfred Lin – Sequoia Capital – Airbnb – San Francisco

33. Nisa Leung – Qiming Venture Partners – Zai Lab – Hong Kong

34. Jeremy Liew – Lightspeed Venture Partners – Affirm – Menlo Park

35. Jenny Lee – GGV Capital – Kingsoft WPS – Shanghai

36. Joe Lonsdale – 8VC – Wish – Woodside

37. Jeremy Levine – Bessemer Venture Partners – Pinterest – New York

38. Rahul Mehta – DST Global – Robinhood – Dubai

39. Bryan Roberts – Venrock – 10X Genomics – Portola Valley

40. Allen Zhu – GSR Ventures – DiDi Chuxing – Shanghai

41. Scott Shleifer – Tiger Global Management – Meituan-Dianping – New York

42. Tuck Lye Koh – Shunwei Capital – Xiaomi – Beijing

43. Peter Thiel – Founders Fund – Airbnb – Los Angeles

44. John Doerr – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers – Slack – Woodside

45. Jeff Lieberman – Insight Venture Partners – Qualtrics – New York

46. Michael Moritz – Sequoia Capital – Stripe – San Francisco

47. Jan Hammer – Index Ventures – Adyen – London

48. John Lindfors – DST Global – Xiaomi – Hong Kong

49. Liu Erhai – Joy Capital – Mobike – Beijing

50. Rick Heitzmann – FirstMark Capital – Pinterest – New York

51. Yi Cao – Source Code Capital – ByteDance – Beijing

52. Aydin Senkut – Felicis Ventures – Adyen – Atherton

53. Mike Volpi – Index Ventures – Confluent – Woodside

54. Beth Seidenberg – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers – Livongo – Los Angeles

55. Tony Florence – New Enterprise Associates – Jet.com – New York

56. Shardul Shah – Index Ventures – Datadog – San Francisco

57. Shawn Carolan – Menlo Ventures – Roku – Los Altos

58. Saurabh Gupta – DST Global – Airbnb – San Francisco

59. Danny Rimer – Index Ventures – Dropbox – San Francisco

60. Vinod Khosla – Khosla Ventures – Oscar – Portola Valley

61. Pär-Jörgen Pärson – Northzone – Spotify – New York

62. Ryan Sweeney – Accel – Qualtrics – Menlo Park

63. Klaus Hommels – Lakestar – Airbnb – Zurich

64. Shailendra Singh – Sequoia Capital India – Pine Labs – Singapore

65. Jim Goetz – Sequoia Capital – GitHub – Los Gatos

66. Frank Rotman – QED Investors – Credit Karma – Richmond

67. Bryan Schreier – Sequoia Capital – Qualtrics – Menlo Park

68. Xiang Gao – Gaorong Capital – Huya – Guangzhou

69. Duane Kuang – Qiming Venture Partners – RoboRock – Shanghai

70. Kui Zhou – Sequoia Capital China – Pony.ai – Beijing

71. Murat Bicer – CRV – Datadog – Atherton

72. Theresia Gouw – Aspect Ventures – Cato Networks – Palo Alto

73. Garry Tan – Initialized Capital – Coinbase – San Francisco

74. Anton Levy – General Atlantic – Slack – New York

75. Jules Maltz – IVP – MuleSoft – San Francisco

76. Jixun Foo – GGV Capital – Qunar – Shanghai

77. Carl Gordon – OrbiMed – ARMO Biosciences – New York

78. John O’Farrell – Andreessen Horowitz – Slack – Atherton

79. Josh Kopelman – First Round – Clover Health – Philadelphia

80. Aileen Lee – Cowboy Ventures – Guild Education – Palo Alto

81. Sonali De Rycker – Accel – Spotify – London

82. Chetan Puttagunta – Benchmark – Elastic – San Francisco

83. Fredrik Cassel – Creandum – Stockholm

84. Steve Anderson – Baseline Ventures – PagerDuty – San Francisco

85. Young Guo – IDG Capital – iQiyi – Cupertino

86. Kirsten Green – Forerunner Ventures – Chime – San Francisco

87. Sunil Dhaliwal – Amplify Partners – Datadog – Hillsborough

88. Byron Deeter – Bessemer Venture Partners – Twilio – Menlo Park

89. Marc Andreessen – Andreessen Horowitz – Samsara – Atherton

90. Devdutt Yellurkar – CRV – SignalFx – Palo Alto

91. Anna Fang – ZhenFund – RED (XiaoHongShu)

92. Roger Ehrenberg – IA Ventures – TransferWise – New York

93. Mamoon Hamid – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers – Slack – Menlo Park

94. Ping Li – Accel – Snyk – Palo Alto

95. Tim Connors – PivotNorth Capital – Looker – Atherton

96. Ann Miura-Ko – Floodgate – Lyft – Menlo Park

97. Pat Grady – Sequoia – Zoom – Portola Valley

98. Asheem Chandna – Greylock Partners – Rubrik – Atherton

99. Peter Levine – Andreessen Horowitz – GitHub – Portola Valley

100. Scott Raney – Redpoint Ventures – HashiCorp – Menlo Park

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14/04/2020