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

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Mr Haque, 65 is senior managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners has more than 20 years' experience as a venture capitalist, generating 40 billion dollars in exits so far. More than 10 of his venture firm's portfolio companies had exits, most notably cyber security company FireEye (second-best performing IPO in the US last year).

Mr Chaddha, 43 heads Mayfield Fund and invests in consumer, enterprise infrastructure and energy technology in the US, India and China, Forbes noted. He has invested in 35 companies in his career, of which 12 have gone public and 12 have been acquired. Mr Chaddha recently raised Mayfield's second dedicated India fund and successes there include online travel site MakeMyTrip (IPO 2010).

An avid cricket watcher and Bollywood movie fan, Mr Chaddha has currently invested in cloud storage company Swiftstack, social media company Gigya, fashion app Poshmark and India's Bharat Matrimony.

Mr Agrawal, 41, is general partner at Battery Ventures and has some promising investments lined up in furniture e-tailer Wayfair and Nutanix, each of which is verging on an IPO.

Mr Gandhi, 48 is an MIT alumnus and partner at Accel Partners, where he has led the firm's investments in file hosting service Dropbox and e-commerce company Quidsi, which Amazon.com acquired for $545 million in 2011. Before Accel, Mr Gandhi was a partner at Sequoia Capital, where he made the firm's seed investment in Dropbox.)
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