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

Friday, 28 March 2014, 00:43 IST
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Mr Deshpande, 45 managing director at Bain Capital Ventures has a deep expertise in open source and infrastructure software, "the kind of products that consumers never see or touch. In his first ten months at Bain he invested about $30 million in five new deals, Forbes said.

Mr Garg, 48 is founding partner at Wing Venture Partners and has invested in technology and mobile.

The top 10 list is dominated by Facebook and Twitter investors.

New faces to the top ten for 2014 include seed investor Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures and Paul Madera of Meritech Capital Partners on the strength of Twitter and Facebook respectively.

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman stays in the top 10 at number 7 thanks to Facebook. WhatsApp was the largest acquisition on the list since it is the largest venture-backed private exit ever.

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Source: PTI