Forbes Midas List 2021

Forbes Midas List 2021 by Forbes: 100 investors ranked, led by Alfred Lin. Full list with movement since the last edition and method notes.

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The 20th annual list. Alfred Lin (Sequoia) ranked No. 1 for the first time; Forbes editor Alex Konrad reported 33 new faces, 23 of them first-time listees, driven by listings such as Airbnb, Coinbase and Snowflake.

The full list

Rank	Name	Since 2020
1	Alfred LinAffiliation: Sequoia	Up 31
2	Neil ShenAffiliation: Sequoia China	Down 1
3	Hans TungAffiliation: GGV Capital	Up 7
4	Richard LiuAffiliation: 5Y Capital	Up 2
5	Mike SpeiserAffiliation: Sutter Hill Ventures	New
6	Satish DharmarajAffiliation: Redpoint Ventures	New
7	Chris DixonAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Up 22
8	Zhen ZhangAffiliation: Gaorong Capital	Up 10
9	Roelof BothaAffiliation: Sequoia	Down 6
10	Lee FixelAffiliation: Addition	Up 6
11	Navin ChaddhaAffiliation: Mayfield Fund	Down 6
12	Sameer GandhiAffiliation: Accel	Up 3
13	Jeff JordanAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Up 7
14	Jan HammerAffiliation: Index Ventures	Up 33
15	Pejman NozadAffiliation: Pear VC	New
16	Peter ThielAffiliation: Founders Fund	Up 27
17	Scott ShleiferAffiliation: Tiger Global Management	Up 24
18	Joe LonsdaleAffiliation: 8VC	Up 18
19	Jeremy LiewAffiliation: Lightspeed Venture Partners	Up 15
20	Bill GurleyAffiliation: Benchmark	Down 13
21	Mary MeekerAffiliation: Bond Capital	Down 13
22	Reid HoffmanAffiliation: Greylock Partners	New
23	Santi SubotovskyAffiliation: Emergence Capital Partners	New
24	JP GanAffiliation: INCE Capital	Down 11
25	Brian SingermanAffiliation: Founders Fund	Down 3
26	Anna FangAffiliation: ZhenFund	Up 65
27	Yi CaoAffiliation: Source Code Capital	Up 24
28	Douglas LeoneAffiliation: Sequoia	Down 16
29	Mar HershensonAffiliation: Pear VC	New
30	Rick HeitzmannAffiliation: FirstMark Capital	Up 20
31	Klaus HommelsAffiliation: Lakestar	Up 32
32	Hemant TanejaAffiliation: General Catalyst	Down 1
33	Jenny LeeAffiliation: GGV Capital	Up 2
34	Saar GurAffiliation: CRV	New
35	Garry TanAffiliation: Initialized Capital	Up 38
36	Fredrik CasselAffiliation: Creandum	Up 47
37	Keith RaboisAffiliation: Founders Fund	New
38	Ben HorowitzAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Down 34
39	Jing HongAffiliation: Gaocheng Capital	New
40	Vinod KhoslaAffiliation: Khosla Ventures	Up 20
41	Steven JiAffiliation: Sequoia China	Down 11
42	Tuck Lye KohAffiliation: Shunwei Capital	No change
43	Carl EschenbachAffiliation: Sequoia	New
44	Xiaojun LiAffiliation: IDG Capital	Down 25
45	Anton LevyAffiliation: General Atlantic	Up 29
46	Pär-Jörgen PärsonAffiliation: Northzone	Up 15
47	Rahul MehtaAffiliation: DST Global	Down 9
48	Robert NelsenAffiliation: ARCH Venture Partners	Down 20
49	Michael MoritzAffiliation: Sequoia	Down 3
50	Andrew BracciaAffiliation: Accel	Down 48
51	James MiAffiliation: Lightspeed China Partners	Down 30
52	Kevin WangAffiliation: Altimeter Capital	New
53	Bryan SchreierAffiliation: Sequoia	Up 14
54	Scott SandellAffiliation: New Enterprise Associates	Down 28
55	Saurabh GuptaAffiliation: DST Global	Up 3
56	Jixun FooAffiliation: GGV Capital	Up 20
57	Fred WilsonAffiliation: Union Square Ventures	New
58	Micky MalkaAffiliation: Ribbit Capital	New
59	Pat GradyAffiliation: Sequoia	Up 38
60	Scott RaneyAffiliation: Redpoint Ventures	Up 40
61	Murat BicerAffiliation: CRV	Up 10
62	Joel CutlerAffiliation: General Catalyst	New
63	Nicolas SzekasyAffiliation: Kaszek Ventures	New
64	Neil RimerAffiliation: Index Ventures	New
65	Philippe BotteriAffiliation: Accel	New
66	David ZhangAffiliation: Matrix Partners China	New
67	John O'FarrellAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Up 11
68	Duane KuangAffiliation: Qiming Venture Partners	Up 1
69	Frank RotmanAffiliation: QED Investors	Down 3
70	Matt WitheilerAffiliation: Wellington Management	New
71	Kathy XuAffiliation: Capital Today	Down 57
72	Koichiro NakamuraAffiliation: Sozo Ventures	New
73	Nisa LeungAffiliation: Qiming Venture Partners	Down 40
74	Kirsten GreenAffiliation: Forerunner Ventures	Up 12
75	Jim TananbaumAffiliation: Foresite Capital	New
76	Allen ZhuAffiliation: GSR Ventures	Down 36
77	John DoerrAffiliation: Kleiner Perkins	Down 33
78	Danny RimerAffiliation: Index Ventures	Down 19
79	Glenn SolomonAffiliation: GGV Capital	New
80	Chris FralicAffiliation: First Round	New
81	John LindforsAffiliation: DST Global	Down 33
82	Chetan PuttaguntaAffiliation: Benchmark	No change
83	Sonali De RyckerAffiliation: Accel	Down 2
84	Ravi MhatreAffiliation: Lightspeed Venture Partners	Down 57
85	Shardul ShahAffiliation: Index Ventures	Down 29
86	Nigel MorrisAffiliation: QED Investors	New
87	Aydin SenkutAffiliation: Felicis Ventures	Down 35
88	Elliot GeidtAffiliation: Redpoint Ventures	New
89	Ann Miura-KoAffiliation: Floodgate	Up 7
90	Fisher ZhangAffiliation: 5Y Capital	New
91	David GeorgeAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	New
92	Tom LoverroAffiliation: IVP	New
93	Rich WongAffiliation: Accel	New
94	Ashvin BachireddyAffiliation: Geodesic Capital	New
95	Ryan SweeneyAffiliation: Accel	Down 33
96	Roger EhrenbergAffiliation: IA Ventures	Down 4
97	Subrata MitraAffiliation: Accel	New
98	Neeraj AgrawalAffiliation: Battery Ventures	Down 75
99	Luciana LixandruAffiliation: Sequoia	New
100	Ruby LuAffiliation: Atypical Ventures	New

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