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.