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Announcing this year's Midas List—honoring the world’s best venture capital investors: on.forbes.com/6015KFtZz #ForbesMidas Image
Inflation fears, broken supply chains and conflict in Ukraine have tech valuations tightening and IPOs on hold. But given their recent records, that won’t slow down these investors on the 21st annual Midas List of the world’s leading venture capitalists for long #ForbesMidas
The #ForbesMidas List is the definitive ranking of the top 100 tech investors. At number one for the first time is Andreessen Horowitz partner Chris Dixon, the two-time entrepreneur turned crypto investment king Image
That company and other public offerings, such as those for Coupang and HashiCorp, and soaring valuations for companies like Airtable, Databricks and Nubank help propel 15 newcomers onto this year’s #ForbesMidas list
To qualify, investors are ranked by their portfolio companies that have gone public or been acquired for at least $200 million over the past five years, or that have at least doubled their private valuation since initial investment to $400 million or more over the same period
Learn more and check this year's full list here: on.forbes.com/6015KFtZz #ForbesMidas Image

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