Forbes Releases 2020 Midas List

The #1 is Sequoia Capital China’s Neil Shen, followed by #2 Andrew Braccia, Accel, and #3 Roelof Botha of Sequoia. The list features 22 Chinese investors 12 newcomers, 6 returnees, and 11 women, led by Mary Meeker, as usual in the latest years. The list below shows the name of the professional, the firm, the notable investment made during the past 12 months and the city in which they operate. 1. Neil Shen – Sequoia Capital China – ByteDance – Hong Kong 2. Andrew Braccia – Accel – Slack – Hillsborough 3. Roelof Botha – Sequoia Capital – Square – Menlo Park 4. Ben Horowitz – Andreessen Horowitz – Okta – Atherton 5. Navin Chaddha – Mayfield Fund – Lyft – Saratoga 6. Richard Liu – Morningside Ventures – Xiaomi – Shanghai 7. Bill Gurley – Benchmark – Uber – Portola Valley 8. Mary Meeker – Bond Capital – Spotify – Woodside 9. Eric Paley – Founder Collective – The Trade Desk – Boston 10. Hans Tung – GGV Capital – Peloton – San Francisco 11. Rob Hayes – First Round – Uber – San Francisco12. Douglas Leone Sequoia Capital – Nubank – Atherton 13. JP Gan – INCE Capital – BiliBili – Shanghai 14. Kathy Xu – Capital Today – Meituan Dianping – Hong Kong 15. Sameer Gandhi – Accel – CrowdStrike -San Francisco 16. Lee Fixel – Addition – Peloton – New York 17. Bill Trenchard – First Round – Looker – Woodside 18. Zhen Zhang – Gaorong Capital – Pinduoduo – Beijing 19. Xiaojun Li – IDG Capital – Pinduoduo 20. Jeff Jordan – Andreessen Horowitz – Airbnb – Portola Valley 21. James Mi – Lightspeed China Partners – Pinduoduo 22. Brian Singerman – Founders Fund – Stemcentrx – San Francisco 23. Neeraj Agrawal – Battery Ventures – Brightree – Boston 24. Xiaoping Xu – ZhenFund – Meicai – Beijing 25. Peter Fenton – Benchmark – Elastic – San Francisco 26. Scott Sandell – New Enterprise Associates – Cloudflare – Portola Valley 27. Ravi Mhatre – Lightspeed Venture Partners – ThoughtSpot – Menlo Park28. Robert Nelsen – ARCH Venture Partners – Vir Biotechnology – Seattle 29. Chris Dixon – Andreessen Horowitz – Coinbase – Menlo Park 30. Steven Ji – Sequoia Capital China – Ele.me – Shanghai 31. Hemant Taneja _ General Catalyst – Livongo – Palo Alto 32. Alfred Lin – Sequoia Capital – Airbnb – San Francisco 33. Nisa Leung – Qiming Venture Partners – Zai Lab – Hong Kong 34. Jeremy Liew – Lightspeed Venture Partners – Affirm – Menlo Park 35. Jenny Lee – GGV Capital – Kingsoft WPS – Shanghai 36. Joe Lonsdale – 8VC – Wish – Woodside 37. Jeremy Levine – Bessemer Venture Partners – Pinterest – New York 38. Rahul Mehta – DST Global – Robinhood – Dubai 39. Bryan Roberts – Venrock – 10X Genomics – Portola Valley 40. Allen Zhu – GSR Ventures – DiDi Chuxing – Shanghai 41. Scott Shleifer – Tiger Global Management – Meituan-Dianping – New York 42. Tuck Lye Koh – Shunwei Capital – Xiaomi – Beijing 43. Peter Thiel – Founders Fund – Airbnb – Los Angeles 44. John Doerr – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers – Slack – Woodside 45. Jeff Lieberman – Insight Venture Partners – Qualtrics – New York 46. Michael Moritz – Sequoia Capital – Stripe – San Francisco 47. Jan Hammer – Index Ventures – Adyen – London 48. John Lindfors – DST Global – Xiaomi – Hong Kong 49. Liu Erhai – Joy Capital – Mobike – Beijing 50. Rick Heitzmann – FirstMark Capital – Pinterest – New York 51. Yi Cao – Source Code Capital – ByteDance – Beijing 52. Aydin Senkut – Felicis Ventures – Adyen – Atherton 53. Mike Volpi – Index Ventures – Confluent – Woodside 54. Beth Seidenberg – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers – Livongo – Los Angeles 55. Tony Florence – New Enterprise Associates – Jet.com – New York 56. Shardul Shah – Index Ventures – Datadog – San Francisco 57. Shawn Carolan – Menlo Ventures – Roku – Los Altos 58. Saurabh Gupta – DST Global – Airbnb – San Francisco 59. Danny Rimer – Index Ventures – Dropbox – San Francisco 60. Vinod Khosla – Khosla Ventures – Oscar – Portola Valley 61. Pär-Jörgen Pärson – Northzone – Spotify – New York 62. Ryan Sweeney – Accel – Qualtrics – Menlo Park 63. Klaus Hommels – Lakestar – Airbnb – Zurich 64. Shailendra Singh – Sequoia Capital India – Pine Labs – Singapore 65. Jim Goetz – Sequoia Capital – GitHub – Los Gatos 66. Frank Rotman – QED Investors – Credit Karma – Richmond 67. Bryan Schreier – Sequoia Capital – Qualtrics – Menlo Park 68. Xiang Gao – Gaorong Capital – Huya – Guangzhou 69. Duane Kuang – Qiming Venture Partners – RoboRock – Shanghai 70. Kui Zhou – Sequoia Capital China – Pony.ai – Beijing 71. Murat Bicer – CRV – Datadog – Atherton 72. Theresia Gouw – Aspect Ventures – Cato Networks – Palo Alto 73. Garry Tan – Initialized Capital – Coinbase – San Francisco 74. Anton Levy – General Atlantic – Slack – New York 75. Jules Maltz – IVP – MuleSoft – San Francisco 76. Jixun Foo – GGV Capital – Qunar – Shanghai 77. Carl Gordon – OrbiMed – ARMO Biosciences – New York 78. John O’Farrell – Andreessen Horowitz – Slack – Atherton 79. Josh Kopelman – First Round – Clover Health – Philadelphia 80. Aileen Lee – Cowboy Ventures – Guild Education – Palo Alto 81. Sonali De Rycker – Accel – Spotify – London 82. Chetan Puttagunta – Benchmark – Elastic – San Francisco 83. Fredrik Cassel – Creandum – Stockholm84. Steve Anderson – Baseline Ventures – PagerDuty – San Francisco 85. Young Guo – IDG Capital – iQiyi – Cupertino 86. Kirsten Green – Forerunner Ventures – Chime – San Francisco 87. Sunil Dhaliwal – Amplify Partners – Datadog – Hillsborough 88. Byron Deeter – Bessemer Venture Partners – Twilio – Menlo Park 89. Marc Andreessen – Andreessen Horowitz – Samsara – Atherton 90. Devdutt Yellurkar – CRV – SignalFx – Palo Alto 91. Anna Fang – ZhenFund – RED (XiaoHongShu) 92. Roger Ehrenberg – IA Ventures – TransferWise – New York 93. Mamoon Hamid – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers – Slack – Menlo Park94. Ping Li – Accel – Snyk – Palo Alto 95. Tim Connors – PivotNorth Capital – Looker – Atherton 96. Ann Miura-Ko – Floodgate – Lyft – Menlo Park 97. Pat Grady – Sequoia – Zoom – Portola Valley 98. Asheem Chandna – Greylock Partners – Rubrik – Atherton 99. Peter Levine – Andreessen Horowitz – GitHub – Portola Valley 100. Scott Raney – Redpoint Ventures – HashiCorp – Menlo Park 14/04/2020