11 Indian-Americans In Forbes Midas's Best Venture Investors

Friday, 28 March 2014, 00:42 IST
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"Perennial Midas Lister" Mr Bhusri, 48, notched big returns in 2007 when storage software outfit PolyServe was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $200 million, and OutlookSoft was acquired by SAP.

Some of Mr Bhusri's current investments at venture firm Greylock include entreprise platform Cloudera and enterprise storage company Pure Storage.

On the 22nd spot is Wharton School graduate Deven Parekh, managing director of Insight Venture Partners. The 44-year old, debuts high on the Midas List this year thanks to an early 2009 investment in Twitter, as well as investments in microblogging platform Tumblr and personalized magazine Flipboard.

Mr Parekh also helped steer Tumblr to its sale to Yahoo last year and manages investments in e-commerce, consumer internet data, and application software businesses.

In 2012, Parekh led a $165 million equity investment in Drilling Info, an Austin-based data intelligence provider the for oil and gas industry.

The other Indian-Americans on the list are Promod Haque ranked 27, Navin Chaddha (30), Neeraj Agrawal (37), Sameer Gandhi (41), Asheem Chandna (55), Venky Ganesan (57), Vinod Khosla (63), Salil Deshpande (67) and Gaurav Garg (86).
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Source: PTI