Eleven Indian-American investors feature in Forbes magazine’s yearly list of the 100 best venture capitalists.
The Forbes 2015 Midas list represents the world’s 100 smartest technology investors with valuations greater than $1 billion and an aggregate of 766 deals.
Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital kept up the number 1 spot for the second year in succession because of WhatsApp, the mobile messaging organization obtained by Facebook for $22 billion.
The main Indian Americans in the list are;
Aneel Bhusri, CEO and Co-founder of Workday, a cloud-based financials and human resources software firm. He is positioned 17th on the list and has a total assets of $1.22 billion.
Salil Deshpande, Managing Director of Bain Capital Ventures, is in 24th spot.
Norwest Venture Partners Senior Managing Partner Promod Haque comes is at the 26th rank.
The other Indian Americans on the list are;
Greylock partner Asheem Chandna, Accel partner Sameer Gandhi, Founding Partner at Wing Venture Partners Gaurav Garg, Managing Director of Mayfield Fund Navin Chaddha, Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners Deven Parekh, General Partner at Battery Ventures Neeraj Agrawal, Managing Director at Menlo Ventures Venky Ganesan and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures Satish Dharmaraj.
Forbes is well known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest people, and rankings of world’s top companies.
