BANGALORE: What’s required for an early-stage, high potential, and growth startup companies? Venture Capital! By investing funds in a company, a venture investor acquires equity in the companies they invest.

And if the risk turns out in a big business, they fill big money bags! Quiet risky but many investors around the world bet on early stage startups and it has been reasonably lucrative too.  “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect, inspiration is necessary at every stage of life.”  That’s why they deserve wide recognition.

Here is the list of the top 7 venture investors of 2014 as compiled by Forbes Magazine with the Midas touch.

1. Jim Goetz

Jim Goetz is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley, wears the crown to be on the top in the list of venture investors this year. Goetz is the largest venture capital investor of all time; he combined $60 million or so in three rounds to support WhatsApp.

And when WhatsApp's was sold to Facebook at a $19 billion, it meant he has $3 billion in Facebook stock.  Goetz spend half of his time in mobile and half time in enterprise where he's had a string of public exits: Ruckus Wireless, Palo Alto Networks and now Barracuda Networks and Nimble Storage.

Goetz continues to be on the board of director list on many four billion-plus public companies, as well as at Jive Software and WhatsApp.

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