Top 20 Tech Investors of 2012
Bangalore: What’s the best part of being an investor? It’s when the companies give you best returns and makes you one of the successful investors. Indeed, it’s what happening in Silicon Valley right now, especially to the Tech- invested VCs. As Forbes state it: “The Valley is back: seed capital is plentiful; the battle for engineers is fierce; real-estate prices are on the rise; and the VCs of Sand Hill Road are hard at work building the next generation of tech giants.”
Meet the top 20 tech investors, from Forbes Midas List.
#20 Fred Wilson
Investment sector: Technology
Firm: Union Square Ventures
Big Deal: Zynga
In addition to a successful investor, Fred is a good technology writer and owns one of the most popular tech blogs in the valley, AVC.com. Zynga’s IPO and Twitter’s huge funding round helped him to make it into the list.
#19 Jeff Brody
Firm: Redpoint Ventures
Big Deal: HomeAway
HomeAway, the online vacation rental marketplace went public in 2011 and got a market capital of $1.97 billion, which made Redpoint along with its co founder and partner Jeff, super rich.