Top Venture Capital List In The World

Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity,^[1] a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake, in the companies they invest in. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology.
The typical venture capital investment occurs after an initial "seed funding" round. The first round of institutional venture capital to fund growth is called the Series A round. Venture capitalists provide this financing in the interest of generating a return through an eventual "exit" event, such as the company selling shares to the public for the first time in an initial public offering (IPO) or doing a merger and acquisition (also known as a "trade sale") of the company.

In addition to angel investing, equity crowdfunding and other seed funding options, venture capital is attractive for new companies with limited operating history that are too small to raise capital in the public markets and have not reached the point where they are able to secure a bank loan or complete a debt offering. In exchange for the high risk that venture capitalists assume by investing in smaller and early-stage companies, venture capitalists usually get significant control over company decisions, in addition to a significant portion of the companies' ownership (and consequently value). Start-ups like Uber, Airbnb, Flipkart, Xiaomi & Didi Chuxing are highly valued startups, where venture capitalists contribute more than financing to these early-stage firms; they also often provide strategic advice to the firm's executives on its business model and marketing strategies.
Venture capital is also a way in which the private and public sectors can construct an institution that systematically creates business networks for the new firms and industries, so that they can progress and develop. This institution helps identify promising new firms and provide them with finance, technical^[2] expertise, mentoring, marketing "know-how", and business models. Once integrated into the business network, these firms are more likely to succeed, as they become "nodes" in the search networks for designing and building products in their domain.^[3] However, venture capitalists' decisions are often biased, exhibiting for instance overconfidence and illusion of control, much like entrepreneurial decisions in general.^[4]

 

VC Partner Rankings

Rank	Portrait	Name	Firm
1		Bill Gurley	Benchmark
2		Chris Sacca	Lowercase Capital
3		Jeffrey Jordan	Andreessen Horowitz
4		Alfred Lin	Sequoia Capital
5		Brian Singerman	Founders Fund
6		Ravi Mhatre	Lightspeed Venture Partners
7		Josh Kopelman	First Round Capital
8		Peter Fenton	Benchmark
9		Nanpeng (Neil) Shen	Sequoia Capital (China)
10		Steve Anderson	Baseline Ventures
11		Fred Wilson	Union Square Ventures
12		Kirsten Green	Forerunner Ventures
13		Jeremy Liew	Lightspeed Venture Partners
14		Neeraj Agrawal	Battery Ventures
15		Michael Moritz	Sequoia Capital
16		Danny Rimer	Index Ventures
17		Aydin Senkut	Felicis Ventures
18		Asheem Chandna	Greylock Partners
19		Mitch Lasky	Benchmark
20		Mary Meeker	Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
21		Roelof Botha	Sequoia Capital
22		Peter Thiel	Founders Fund
23		Michael Maples Jr.	Floodgate
24		Nabeel Hyatt	Spark Capital
25		Rebecca Lynn	Canvas Ventures
26		Marc Andreessen	Andreessen Horowitz
27		Matt Cohler	Benchmark
28		Ping Li	Accel
29		Scott Sandell	New Enterprise Associates
30		Salil Deshpande	Bain Capital Ventures
31		David Sze	Greylock Partners
32		Ben Horowitz	Andreessen Horowitz
33		Bijan Sabet	Spark Capital
34		Jenny Lee	GGV Capital
35		Bradley Feld	Foundry Group
36		Sameer Gandhi	Accel
37		Bryan Roberts	Venrock
38		Douglas Leone	Sequoia Capital
39		Promod Haque	Norwest Venture Partners
40		Josh Stein	Draper Fisher Jurvetson
41		Sandy Miller	Institutional Venture Partners
42		Carl Gordon	OrbiMed Advisors
43		Ted Schlein	Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
44		Randy Glein	DFJ Growth
45		Ryan Sweeney	Accel
46		Byron Deeter	Bessemer Venture Partners
47		Navin Chaddha	Mayfield Fund
48		George Zachary	CRV
49		Mike Volpi	Index Ventures
50		Michael Dearing	Harrison Metal