{"id":136448,"date":"2025-05-27T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136448\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:18:08","slug":"ranking-the-worlds-top-venture-capitalists-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136448\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking The World\u2019s Top Venture Capitalists In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Midas List returns for its 24th year with another definitive ranking of the 100 best tech investors in the world.<\/p>\n<p>O<\/p>\n<p><strong>ver the last two decades,<\/strong> a big stock market listing or sale were key for VCs to land a spot on the Midas List. Now the soaring valuations of a new crop of super-sized private startups like OpenAI, SpaceX and Databricks are shaking up the rankings of the world\u2019s best tech investors.<\/p>\n<p>That shift has seen investors from Silicon Valley like Sequoia and the so-called PayPal Mafia further locking in their positions on the list but it\u2019s also brought a crop of new faces with a talent for picking future unicorns.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-embed-link color-link target-blank image-embed__placeholder\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/midas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"FORBES.com\" style=\"padding-top:56.12%;position:relative\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/midas\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\">Cody Pickens for Forbes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midas List 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/midas\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link target-blank\" 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