Forbes Midas List 2025

Forbes Midas List 2025 by Forbes: 100 investors ranked, led by Alfred Lin. Full list with movement since the last edition and method notes.

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Alfred Lin (Sequoia) ranked No. 1, with Reid Hoffman (Greylock) No. 2 and Peter Thiel (Founders Fund) No. 3. Forbes highlighted SpaceX backers Shaun Maguire (No. 80) and David Sacks (No. 85) as newcomers.

The full list

Rank	Name	Since 2024
1	Alfred LinAffiliation: Sequoia	No change
2	Reid HoffmanAffiliation: Greylock Partners	Up 6
3	Peter ThielAffiliation: Founders Fund	Up 9
4	Neil ShenAffiliation: HongShan	Down 1
5	Micky MalkaAffiliation: Ribbit Capital	Down 3
6	Vinod KhoslaAffiliation: Khosla Ventures	Up 3
7	Douglas LeoneAffiliation: Sequoia	Up 15
8	Hemant TanejaAffiliation: General Catalyst	Up 2
9	Fred WilsonAffiliation: Union Square Ventures	Down 2
10	Chris DixonAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Down 4
11	Mike SpeiserAffiliation: Sutter Hill Ventures	Up 6
12	Richard LiuAffiliation: 5Y Capital	Up 1
13	Roelof BothaAffiliation: Sequoia	Down 2
14	Satish DharmarajAffiliation: Redpoint Ventures	Down 9
15	Saurabh GuptaAffiliation: DST Global	Up 27
16	Avi EyalAffiliation: Entrée Capital	Up 14
17	Keith RaboisAffiliation: Khosla Ventures	Up 9
18	Marc AndreessenAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Up 18
19	Trae StephensAffiliation: Founders Fund	Up 72
20	Navin ChaddhaAffiliation: Mayfield	Down 16
21	Martin MignotAffiliation: Index Ventures	Up 44
22	Mamoon HamidAffiliation: Kleiner Perkins	Up 40
23	Eric VishriaAffiliation: Benchmark	Down 7
24	Gili RaananAffiliation: Cyberstarts	New
25	Randy GleinAffiliation: DFJ Growth	Down 11
26	Saar GurAffiliation: CRV	Up 1
27	David FrankelAffiliation: Founder Collective	Down 12
28	Pawel ChudzinskiAffiliation: Point Nine Capital	Up 23
29	Yi CaoAffiliation: Source Code Capital	Up 6
30	Topher ConwayAffiliation: SV Angel	Up 55
31	Tuck Lye KohAffiliation: Shunwei Capital	Up 10
32	Scott RaneyAffiliation: Redpoint Ventures	Up 25
33	Ben HorowitzAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Up 4
34	Hurst LinAffiliation: DCM	Down 2
35	Marc StadAffiliation: Dragoneer Investment Group	Down 10
36	Pat GradyAffiliation: Sequoia	Up 45
37	Barry SchulerAffiliation: DFJ Growth	Down 16
38	Neil MehtaAffiliation: Greenoaks	Up 16
39	Xi CaoAffiliation: Monolith	New
40	Brad GerstnerAffiliation: Altimeter Capital	New
41	Shardul ShahAffiliation: Index Ventures	Up 7
42	Ben SunAffiliation: Primary Venture Partners	Down 22
43	Tom StaffordAffiliation: DST Global	Up 27
44	Mar HershensonAffiliation: Pear VC	Down 13
45	Nicolas SzekasyAffiliation: Kaszek	Up 2
46	Pejman NozadAffiliation: Pear VC	Down 18
47	Fisher ZhangAffiliation: 5Y Capital	Down 18
48	Mike VolpiAffiliation: Index Ventures	Down 15
49	Mary MeekerAffiliation: BOND	No change
50	Jan HammerAffiliation: Index Ventures	Up 9
51	Luciana LixandruAffiliation: Sequoia	Down 33
52	Meng LianAffiliation: IDG Capital	New
53	Koichiro NakamuraAffiliation: Sozo Ventures	Down 8
54	David GeorgeAffiliation: Andreessen Horowitz	Up 1
55	Ravi MhatreAffiliation: Lightspeed Venture Partners	New
56	Peter FentonAffiliation: Benchmark	Down 37
57	Allen ZhuAffiliation: GSR Ventures	Up 3
58	Larry LiAffiliation: Amino Capital	New
59	Philippe BotteriAffiliation: Accel	Up 13
60	Byron DeeterAffiliation: Bessemer Venture Partners	New
61	Ronny ConwayAffiliation: A.Capital	New
62	Anna FangAffiliation: ZhenFund	Up 1
63	Lucas SwisherAffiliation: Coatue Management	New
64	David B. SingerAffiliation: Maverick Ventures	Up 3
65	Jixun FooAffiliation: Granite Asia	Down 21
66	Ilya FushmanAffiliation: Kleiner Perkins	New
67	Max GazorAffiliation: CRV	Down 6
68	Chetan PuttaguntaAffiliation: Benchmark	Up 6
69	Daniel LevineAffiliation: Accel	New
70	Kirsten GreenAffiliation: Forerunner Ventures	Down 4
71	Xiaojun LiAffiliation: IDG Capital	Up 13
72	Ashvin BachireddyAffiliation: SV Angel	Down 1
73	Rahul MehtaAffiliation: DST Global	Up 10
74	Lauren KolodnyAffiliation: Acrew Capital	Down 6
75	Jenny LeeAffiliation: Granite Asia	Down 29
76	Lee FixelAffiliation: Addition	Down 37
77	Matt WitheilerAffiliation: Wellington Management	Up 3
78	John LindforsAffiliation: DST Global	Down 2
79	Aydin SenkutAffiliation: Felicis Ventures	Up 9
80	Shaun MaguireAffiliation: Sequoia	New
81	Salil DeshpandeAffiliation: Uncorrelated	Down 2
82	Nisa LeungAffiliation: Qiming Venture Partners	Down 42
83	Pete SonsiniAffiliation: Laude Ventures	New
84	Brian SingermanAffiliation: Founders Fund	Down 2
85	David SacksAffiliation: Craft Ventures	New
86	Wesley ChanAffiliation: FPV	Up 12
87	Elad GilAffiliation: Gil Capital	New
88	Ross FubiniAffiliation: XYZ Venture Capital	New
89	Josh KopelmanAffiliation: First Round	New
90	Nigel MorrisAffiliation: QED Investors	Down 40
91	Rich WongAffiliation: Accel	New
92	Robert NelsenAffiliation: ARCH Venture Partners	No change
93	Annie LamontAffiliation: Oak HC/FT	Down 7
94	Danny RimerAffiliation: Index Ventures	Down 25
95	Scott SandellAffiliation: New Enterprise Associates	Down 31
96	Adam RossAffiliation: Goldcrest Capital	New
97	David SuAffiliation: Matrix Partners China	Down 45
98	Hans TungAffiliation: Notable Capital	Down 40
99	Reshma SohoniAffiliation: Seedcamp	Down 10
100	Eric LiawAffiliation: Institutional Venture Partners	New

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