Eleven influential Indian-American investors feature in Forbes magazine’s annual list of the 100 best venture capitalists.
The Forbes 2015 Midas List represents the world’s 100 smartest technology investors who are making it big and are placing early bets on the leading technology companies of tomorrow.
Right at top of the list is, 49-year-old Aneel Bhusri.
He is the CEO and co-founder of Workday, a cloud-based financials and human resources software firm and is ranked 17th on the list. He has a net worth of $1.22 billion.
On the 24th spot is Salil Deshpande, Managing Director of Bain Capital Ventures.
Norwest Venture Partners Senior Managing Partner Promod Haque comes in at the 26th position.
The other Indian-Americans on the list are:
1. Asheem Chandna, Greylock partner
2. Sameer Gandhi, Accel partner
3. Gaurav Garg, founding partner, Wing Venture Partners
4. Navin Chaddha, managing director, Mayfield Fund
5. Deven Parekh, manging director, Insight Venture Partners
6. Neeraj Agrawal, general partner, Battery Ventures
7. Venky Ganesan, managing director, Menlo Ventures
8. Satish Dharmaraj, managing director, Redpoint Ventures
A notable exclusion from the list is Vinod Khosla, who founded Khosla Ventures in 2004.
Khosla had been a regular on the Midas list till now, ranking 63rd last year.
Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital has maintained the number one spot for the second year in a row due to WhatsApp, which was recently acquired by Facebook for $22 billion.
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