Forbes Midas List 2023

Forbes Midas List 2023 by Forbes: 100 investors ranked, led by Neil Shen. Full list with movement since the last edition and method notes.

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Neil Shen (then Sequoia China, now HongShan) ranked No. 1 for the fourth time, ahead of Micky Malka (Ribbit Capital) and Alfred Lin (Sequoia).

The full list

Rank	Name	Since 2022
1	Neil ShenAffiliation: Sequoia China	Up 2
2	Micky MalkaAffiliation: Ribbit Capital	No change
3	Alfred LinAffiliation: Sequoia	Up 4
4	Richard LiuAffiliation: 5Y Capital	No change
5	Navin ChaddhaAffiliation: Mayfield Fund	No change
6	Garry TanAffiliation: Y Combinator	Up 22
7	Zhen ZhangAffiliation: Gaorong Capital	Up 7
8	Lee FixelAffiliation: Addition	Up 5
9	Fred WilsonAffiliation: Union Square Ventures	Up 64
10	Hans TungAffiliation: GGV Capital	Down 4
11	David FrankelAffiliation: Founder Collective	No change
12	Sameer GandhiAffiliation: Accel	Up 9
13	Mike SpeiserAffiliation: Sutter Hill Ventures	Up 22
14	Reid HoffmanAffiliation: Greylock	Up 26
15	Satish DharmarajAffiliation: Redpoint Ventures	Up 1
16	Danny RimerAffiliation: Index Ventures	Up 55
17	Eric VishriaAffiliation: Benchmark	Up 42
18	Jan HammerAffiliation: Index Ventures	Down 1
19	Luciana LixandruAffiliation: Sequoia	Up 39
20	Scott ShleiferAffiliation: Tiger Global Management	Down 2
21	Pejman NozadAffiliation: Pear VC	Down 6
22	Saar GurAffiliation: CRV	Up 26
23	Ben SunAffiliation: Primary Venture Partners	Up 42
24	Peter FentonAffiliation: Benchmark	Up 13
25	Chris DixonAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Down 24
26	Mar HershensonAffiliation: Pear VC	Up 4
27	Roelof BothaAffiliation: Sequoia	Up 9
28	Anna FangAffiliation: ZhenFund	Down 16
29	Murat BicerAffiliation: CRV	Up 33
30	Mike VolpiAffiliation: Index Ventures	Up 11
31	Douglas LeoneAffiliation: Sequoia	Down 11
32	Barry SchulerAffiliation: DFJ Growth	Up 28
33	Keith RaboisAffiliation: Founders Fund	Down 25
34	Rick HeitzmannAffiliation: FirstMark	Down 8
35	Fisher ZhangAffiliation: 5Y Capital	Down 16
36	Peter ThielAffiliation: Founders Fund	Down 26
37	Marc StadAffiliation: Dragoneer Investment Group	Down 15
38	Subrata MitraAffiliation: Accel	Up 41
39	David SuAffiliation: Matrix Partners China	New
40	Hurst LinAffiliation: DCM	Up 6
41	Nisa LeungAffiliation: Qiming Venture Partners	Up 20
42	Jixun FooAffiliation: GGV Capital	Down 15
43	Tom StaffordAffiliation: DST Global	Down 12
44	Pawel ChudzinskiAffiliation: Point Nine	Up 48
45	Steve JangAffiliation: Kindred Ventures	New
46	Avi EyalAffiliation: Entree Capital	Up 20
47	Fredrik CasselAffiliation: Creandum	Up 35
48	Saurabh GuptaAffiliation: DST Global	Up 5
49	Neil MehtaAffiliation: Greenoaks Capital	Down 40
50	Michael MoritzAffiliation: Sequoia	Up 20
51	Hemant TanejaAffiliation: General Catalyst	Down 28
52	Andrew BracciaAffiliation: Accel	Up 23
53	Young GuoAffiliation: IDG Capital	Up 16
54	Yi CaoAffiliation: Source Code Capital	Down 22
55	Koichiro NakamuraAffiliation: Sozo Ventures	Up 8
56	Aydin SenkutAffiliation: Felicis Ventures	Down 9
57	Jeff JordanAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Down 15
58	Jenny LeeAffiliation: GGV Capital	Down 9
59	Kirsten GreenAffiliation: Forerunner Ventures	Down 3
60	Nicolas SzekasyAffiliation: Kaszek	Down 35
61	Salil DeshpandeAffiliation: Uncorrelated	Up 28
62	Steven JiAffiliation: Sequoia China	Up 34
63	David GeorgeAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Down 11
64	Chetan PuttaguntaAffiliation: Benchmark	Up 13
65	Santi SubotovskyAffiliation: Emergence Capital Partners	New
66	Mamoon HamidAffiliation: Kleiner Perkins	Up 24
67	Bryan SchreierAffiliation: Sequoia	New
68	Klaus HommelsAffiliation: Lakestar	Down 13
69	Allen ZhuAffiliation: GSR Ventures	Down 1
70	Duane KuangAffiliation: Qiming Venture Partners	Up 4
71	Anton LevyAffiliation: General Atlantic	Down 38
72	Philippe BotteriAffiliation: Accel	Up 19
73	Ben HorowitzAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Up 14
74	Scott RaneyAffiliation: Redpoint Ventures	Down 35
75	Ann Miura-KoAffiliation: Floodgate	Up 13
76	Jing HongAffiliation: Gaocheng Capital	Up 7
77	Ryan SweeneyAffiliation: Accel	Up 7
78	Xiaojun LiAffiliation: IDG Capital	Up 2
79	Scott SandellAffiliation: New Enterprise Associates	New
80	Martin MignotAffiliation: Index Ventures	Up 20
81	Max GazorAffiliation: CRV	No change
82	Matt WitheilerAffiliation: Wellington Management	Down 32
83	Shardul ShahAffiliation: Index Ventures	New
84	Carl EschenbachAffiliation: Sequoia	Down 8
85	Vinod KhoslaAffiliation: Khosla Ventures	Down 18
86	David B. SingerAffiliation: Maverick Ventures	New
87	Ashvin BachireddyAffiliation: SV Angel Growth	Up 6
88	Rahul MehtaAffiliation: DST Global	Down 50
89	Mary MeekerAffiliation: Bond Capital	Down 60
90	Frank RotmanAffiliation: QED Investors	Down 45
91	Pat GradyAffiliation: Sequoia	Down 6
92	Brian SingermanAffiliation: Founders Fund	Down 49
93	Laurel BowdenAffiliation: 83North	New
94	Topher ConwayAffiliation: SV Angel	New
95	Elliot GeidtAffiliation: Redpoint Ventures	Down 38
96	Adeyemi AjaoAffiliation: Base10 Partners	New
97	Reshma SohoniAffiliation: Seedcamp	Down 3
98	Nigel MorrisAffiliation: QED Investors	Down 44
99	Robert NelsenAffiliation: ARCH Venture Partners	Down 27
100	Lauren KolodnyAffiliation: Acrew Capital	New

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