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Forbes 30 Under 30 (United States) Class of 2025

Forbes 30 Under 30 (United States) Class of 2025 by Forbes: 30 founders listed. The entries on record, movement since the last edition, and method notes.

Publisher
Forbes
Published
2025
On this page
30 of 600 listed
Method
Editorial
Reliability
Grade C

Class of 2025. Venture Capital honorees include partners at Greylock, Lightspeed, NEA, IVP and Bain Capital Ventures.

The list on record

This page shows the 30 entries on record of 600 published. Only the Venture Capital category is loaded (30 honoree records from the Forbes list data API, https://www.forbes.com/forbesapi/person/30under30-venture-capital/2025/position/true.json?limit=40). The other categories of the class are not loaded. Group honorees (a firm's team listed jointly) appear under the group name with group_entry true. See the original list.

Name
Michelle AguinisTitle: Head of Strategy & Operations at Menlo Labs · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Menlo Ventures
Talia AskowitzTitle: Principal · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Deerfield Management
Kristina ChappleTitle: Director · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: 11 Tribes Ventures
Emily CohenTitle: Principal Investor · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: NEO
Elaine DaiTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Alt Capital
George EasleyTitle: Principal · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Outsiders Fund
Rak GargTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Bain Capital Ventures
Grace GengTitle: Vice President · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: DST Global
Elana GoldTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Red Beard Ventures
Alaina HartleyTitle: Principal · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Greycroft
Bradford JonesTitle: Principal · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: SignalFire
Yuri LeeTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: IVP
Hayden LekaczTitle: Vice President · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: TPG
Lindsey LiTitle: Vice President · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Bessemer Venture Partners
Ronnie MartinezTitle: Junior Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: CEAS Investments
Molly MielkeTitle: General Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Moth Fund
Zehra NaqviTitle: Investor · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Headline Ventures
Alyssa ReisnerTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: CVS Health Ventures
Corinne RileyTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Greylock
Will RobbinsTitle: General Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Contrary
Rachel SchowTitle: Vice President · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Left Lane Capital
Alex SharataTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: New Enterprise Associates
Michael ShephardTitle: Principal · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Insight Partners
John SmothersTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Scribble Ventures
Sarah WuTitle: Principal · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Emerson Collective
Jenny XiaoTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Leonis Capital
Mark XuTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Claire ZauTitle: Partner · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: GSV Ventures
Emily ZhenTitle: Principal · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: Zeal Capital Partners
Taha ZiaeeTitle: Principal · Category: Venture Capital · Affiliation: BOND

This list is reproduced as Forbes published it. Names are shown as printed. The ranking belongs to its publisher.

Sources and known limits

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