Top 100 Best Venture Capital Investors In 2025

Are you looking for the best venture capital firms? The Forbes Midas list of 2025 is the most reliable source of reference information.

The name Midas list comes from the name Midas in Greek mythology – The man who has the ability to turn everything he touches into gold.

The Midas List is the annual ranking of the top 100 tech investors. They are angel investors of startups, especially in the field of tech, blockchain, or AI – the technologies of the future. The list is known as the “Oscars for venture capitalists in tech.”

In 2025, the Midas list was produced by Forbes magazine in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Partners.

Ranking the best 100 Venture Capital Investors In 2025

Rank Name Firm Notable Deal Headquarters
1. Chris Dixon Andreessen Horowitz Coinbase Menlo Park
2. Micky Malka Ribbit Capital Coinbase Menlo Park
3. Shen Neil Sequoia China ByteDance Hong Kong
4. Richard Liu 5Y Capital Xiaomi Hong Kong
5. Navin Chaddha Mayfield Fund Poshmark Saratoga
6. Hans Tung GGV Capital StockX San Francisco
7. Alfred Lin Sequoia Airbnb San Francisco
8. Keith Rabois Founders Fund Opendoor Miami
9. Neil Mehta Greenoaks Capital Coupang San Francisco
10. Peter Thiel Founders Fund Airbnb Los Angeles
11. David Frankel Founder Collective Coupang Brookline
12. Anna Fang ZhenFund Yatsen Beijing
13. Lee Fixel Addition Freshworks New York
14. Zhen Zhang Gaorong Capital Pinduoduo Beijing
15. Pejman Nozad Pear VC DoorDash Atherton
16. Satish Dharmaraj Redpoint Ventures Snowflake Saratoga
17. Jan Hammer Index Ventures Robinhood London
18. Scott Shleifer Tiger Global Management Upstox New York
19. Fisher Zhang 5Y Capital Kuaishou Hong Kong
20. Douglas Leone Sequoia Nubank Atherton
21. Sameer Gandhi Accel Freshworks San Francisco
22. Marc Stad Dragoneer Investment Group PointClickCare San Francisco
23. Hemant Taneja General Catalyst Livongo Palo Alto
24. Bill Gurley Benchmark Uber Portola Valley
25. Nicolas Szekasy Kaszek Nubank Montevideo
26. Rick Heitzmann FirstMark Pinterest New York
27. Jixun Foo GGV Capital Xpeng Shanghai
28. Garry Tan Initialized Capital Coinbase San Francisco
29. Mary Meeker Bond Capital Spotify Woodside
30. Mar Hershenson Pear VC DoorDash Los Altos
31. Tom Stafford DST Global Nubank London
32. Yi Cao Source Code Capital ByteDance Beijing
33. Anton Levy General Atlantic Squarespace New York
34. Glenn Solomon GGV Capital HashiCorp Menlo Park
35. Mike Speiser Sutter Hill Ventures Snowflake San Francisco
36. Roelof Botha Sequoia Unity Software Menlo Park
37. Peter Fenton Benchmark Airtable San Francisco
38. Rahul Mehta DST Global DoorDash Dubai
39. Scott Raney Redpoint Ventures Stripe Menlo Park
40. Reid Hoffman Greylock Airbnb Palo Alto
41. Mike Volpi Index Ventures Confluent Woodside
42. Jeff Jordan Andreessen Horowitz Instacart Portola Valley
43. Brian Singerman Founders Fund Stemcentrx San Francisco
44. Jeremy Liew Lightspeed Venture Partners Affirm Menlo Park
45. Frank Rotman QED Investors Credit Karma Richmond
46. Hurst Lin DCM Kuaishou Beijing
47. Aydin Senkut Felicis Ventures Adyen Atherton
48. Saar Gur CRV DoorDash Palo Alto
49. Jenny Lee GGV Capital Kingsoft WPS Singapore
50. Matt Witheiler Wellington Management Stripe Rye
51. Peter Wagner Wing Venture Capital Snowflake Atherton
52. David George Andreessen Horowitz Roblox Menlo Park
53. Saurabh Gupta DST Global Airbnb San Francisco
54. Nigel Morris QED Investors Nubank Alexandria
55. Klaus Hommels Lakestar Revolut Zurich
56. Kirsten Green Forerunner Ventures Chime San Francisco
57. Elliot Geidt Redpoint Ventures Nubank San Francisco
58. Luciana Lixandru Sequoia UiPath London
59. Eric Vishria Benchmark Confluent Atherton
60. Barry Schuler DFJ Growth Coinbase Napa
61. Nisa Leung Qiming Venture Partners CanSino Biologics Hong Kong
62. Murat Bicer CRV Datadog Atherton
63. Koichiro Nakamura Sozo Ventures Coinbase Los Gatos
64. John Curtius Tiger Global Databricks Coral Gables
65. Ben Sun Primary Venture Partners Coupang New York
66. Avi Eyal Entree Capital monday.com Ra’anana
67. Vinod Khosla Khosla Ventures Instacart Portola Valley
68. Allen Zhu GSR Ventures DiDi Chuxing Shanghai
69. Young Guo IDG Capital iQiyi Cupertino
70. Michael Moritz Sequoia Stripe San Francisco
71. Danny Rimer Index Ventures Figma San Francisco
72. Robert Nelsen ARCH Venture Partners Altos Labs San Francisco
73. Fred Wilson Union Square Ventures Coinbase New York
74. Duane Kuang Qiming Venture Partners WeRide Shanghai
75. Andrew Braccia Accel Slack Hillsborough
76. Carl Eschenbach Sequoia Snowflake Los Altos Hills
77. Chetan Puttagunta Benchmark Elastic San Francisco
78. Elwin Yuan 5Y Capital Kuaishou Shanghai
79. Subrata Mitra Accel Flipkart Bangalore
80. Xiaojun Li IDG Capital Xiaomi Boston
81. Max Gazor CRV Airtable Atherton
82. Fredrik Cassel Creandum Spotify London
83. Jing Hong Gaocheng Capital Meituan Beijing
84. Ryan Sweeney Accel Qualtrics Menlo Park
85. Pat Grady Sequoia Snowflake Portola Valley
86. Bill Trenchard First Round Flexport Seattle
87. Ben Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz Databricks Atherton
88. Ann Miura-Ko Floodgate Starkware Menlo Park
89. Salil Deshpande Uncorrelated Redis Palo Alto
90. Mamoon Hamid Kleiner Perkins Slack Menlo Park
91. Philippe Botteri Accel DocuSign London
92. Pawel Chudzinski Point Nine Mambu Berlin
93. Ashvin Bachireddy SV Angel Growth Databricks Menlo Park
94. Reshma Sohoni Seedcamp UiPath London
95. Brad Gerstner Altimeter Capital Snowflake Woodside
96. Steven Ji Sequoia China Ele.me Shanghai
97. JP Gan INCE Capital BiliBili Shanghai
98. Kathy Xu Capital Today BOSS Zhipin Hong Kong
99. Byron Deeter Bessemer Venture Partners Twilio Menlo Park
100. Martin Mignot Index Ventures Revolut London

Source: https://www.forbes.com/midas/