The Top 100 Venture Capitalists

For the fourth year in a row, CB Insights partnered with The New York Times to provide an algorithmically-driven view into the question of who are the top VCs. Not swayed by narrative or a storied history in venture capital, the NYT-CBI rankings provide a current view into the best venture capitalists in the world at an individual and firm level.

The rankings were based on CB Insights data which is gathered via our machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher) and complemented by thousands of submissions that we received from VC partners and firms via The Editor.

Some of the top movers in 2019 include:

• JP Gan, who moved up 39 spots to #16
• Hans Tung (+41) to #18
• Jan Hammer (+43) to #43
• Ryan Sweeney (+42) to #46

19 investors made their first appearances this year. Included for the first time were Par-Jorgen Parson (#29), Shailendra Singh (#46), and Ajay Royan (#68).

Below is our comprehensive list of the Top 100 Venture Capital Partners in addition to our Selection Methodology:

• Top 100 Venture Capital Partners of 2019
• Top 100 Venture Capital Partners of 2018
• Top 100 Venture Capital Partners of 2017
• Top 100 Venture Capital Partners of 2016
• Selection Methodology

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• The United States Of Venture Capital: The Most Active VC In Each State
• Here Are The Top 5 Most Active VC Investors
• How the Traditional Venture Capital Pipeline is Changing

2019 VC Partner Rankings

Rank	Portrait	Name	Firm
1		Neil Shen	Sequoia Capital China
2		Lee Fixel	Tiger Global Management
3		Bill Gurley	Benchmark
4		Alfred Lin	Sequoia Capital
5		Jeffrey Jordan	Andreessen Horowitz
6		Peter Fenton	Benchmark
7		Brian Singerman	Founders Fund
8		Mary Meeker	Bond
9		Matt Cohler	Benchmark
10		Ravi Mhatre	Lightspeed Venture Partners
11		Joshua Kopelman	First Round Capital
12		Bryan Schreier	Sequoia Capital
13		Allen Zhu	GSR Ventures
14		Mike Volpi	Index Ventures
15		Sameer Gandhi	Accel
16		JP Gan	Qiming Venture Partners
17		Ann Miura-Ko	Floodgate
18		Hans Tung	GGV Capital
19		Aydin Senkut	Felicis Ventures
20		Ben Horowitz	Andreessen Horowitz
21		Asheem Chandna	Greylock Partners
22		Kirsten Green	Forerunner Ventures
23		Robert Nelsen	ARCH Venture Partners
24		Steve Anderson	Baseline
25		Michael Moritz	Sequoia Capital
26		Jeremy Liew	Lightspeed Venture Partners
27		Jeremy Levine	Bessemer Venture Partners
28		Peter Levine	Andreessen Horowitz
29		Par-Jorgen Parson	Northzone
30		Hemant Taneja	General Catalyst
31		Danny Rimer	Index Ventures
32		Roelof Botha	Sequoia Capital
33		Keith Rabois	Founders Fund
34		Shawn Carolan	Menlo Ventures
35		Andrew Braccia	Accel
36		Byron Deeter	Bessemer Venture Partners
37		Neeraj Agrawal	Battery Ventures
38		Reid Hoffman	Greylock Partners
39		Richard Liu	Morningside Ventures
40		Scott Sandell	New Enterprise Associates
41		Jon Callaghan	True Ventures
42		Mamoon Hamid	Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
43		Jan Hammer	Index Ventures
44		Randy Glein	DFJ
45		Shailendra Singh	Sequoia Capital India
46		Ryan Sweeney	Accel
47		Yuri Milner	DST Global
48		Marc Andreessen	Andreessen Horowitz
49		Mitch Lasky	Benchmark
50		Joel Cutler	General Catalyst
51		Rick Heitzmann	FirstMark Capital
52		Bryan Roberts	Venrock
53		Navin Chaddha	Mayfield Fund
54		Satish Dharmaraj	Redpoint Ventures
55		Jenny Lee	GGV Capital
56		Joe Lonsdale	8VC
57		Fred Wilson	Union Square Ventures
58		David Chao	DCM
59		Micky Malka	Ribbit Capital
60		Jixun Foo	GGV Capital
61		Beth Seidenberg	Westlake Village BioPartners
62		Neil Rimer	Index Ventures
63		Todd Chaffee	IVP
64		Jeff Crowe	Norwest Venture Partners
65		Albert Wenger	Union Square Ventures
66		Joshua Kushner	Thrive Capital
67		Theresia Gouw	Aspect Ventures
68		Ajay Royan	Mithril Capital
69		Roger Ehrenberg	IA Ventures
70		David Frankel	Founder Collective
71		Xiaojun Li	IDG Capital
72		Jeff Clavier	Uncork Capital
73		Hurst Lin	DCM
74		Tom Stafford	DST Global
75		Nabeel Hyatt	Spark Capital
76		Peter Thiel	Founders Fund
77		Deven Parekh	Insight Venture Partners
78		Scott Friend	Bain Capital Ventures
79		Yi Cao	Source Code Capital
80		Somesh Dash	IVP
81		Jim Breyer	Breyer Capital
82		Erhai Liu	Joy Capital
83		Woody Marshall	TCV
84		Adam D’Augelli	True Ventures
85		Chen Xiaohong	H Capital
86		Bijan Sabet	Spark Capital
87		Bill Trenchard	First Round Capital
88		Rich Wong	Accel
89		Geoff Lewis	Bedrock Capital
90		Manu Kumar	K9 Ventures
91		Nigel Morris	QED Investors
92		Richard Peng	Genesis Capital
93		Tony Florence	New Enterprise Associates
94		Amish Jani	FirstMark Capital
95		Saar Gur	CRV
96		Jeffrey Lieberman	Insight Venture Partners
97		Aileen Lee	Cowboy Ventures
98		David Cowan	Bessemer Venture Partners
99		Eric Liaw	IVP
100		Justin Niu	IDG Capital

SELECTION METHODOLOGY

Below are the factors considered in ranking our list of top venture capital partners:

• An investor’s exits – the frequency/volume, size, and stage of entry
• Network centrality – connectivity to other investors. Think of it as akin to Google Pagerank.
• Consistency – stage, industry consistency of investments
• Illiquid portfolio company value – frequency, size and stage of entry in high value (but un-exited companies). Given relatively less weight as these are paper valuations
• Recency of performance – Our focus was on these metrics since 2010. As a result, we didn’t give a lot of credit to those who made glorious picks in the 80s, 90s, or early 2000s. This is a ranking of today’s best VCs — not the best VCs in history.

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