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Midas At 25: The 15 Best Venture Capital Investors
When the Midas List began in 2001, Silicon Valley was still coming to terms with the “tech wreck.” The excitement in early internet companies led to public flameouts and a long and painful reset that saw the Nasdaq drop 39.3%, its…
How AI Mega-Startups Rewired Venture Capital And The Midas List
A tiny group of AI companies absorbed hundreds of billions in capital, created historic paper fortunes and reshaped the 2026 Forbes Midas List—while testing whether public markets can absorb trillion-dollar startups. For most of venture…
This 20-Year PayPal Veteran Takes on Venture Capital's Gender Bias
Despite women in the U.S. launching nearly half (49 percent) of new businesses, they received just 2.1 percent of all venture capital funding in 2024. That figure dropped to 1.1 percent in 2025 as investors concentrated funding in A.I. companies.
I Taught Myself to Code at Age 10. After Working At Google and Twitter, I Turned to Venture Capital. Here's What I Look for When Investing in Startups.
Alex Roetter taught himself how to code as a child, setting the foundation for a lifelong builder's mindset. He spent years at Google and Twitter, now X, honing his coding and interpersonal skills. Now he works as a general partner at venture…
Apollo CEO Marc Rowan argues AI's massive capital demands will outgrow venture equity and rely on private credit · Digg
— Apollo manages more than $1 trillion in assets. Original post Financing the Global Industrial Renaissance with Apollo CEO Marc Rowan Marc Rowan is CEO of Apollo Global Management, one of the most important financial institutions and the…
Forbes Daily: Micron Technology Is The Latest $1 Trillion Chipmaker
Eric Wu cofounded Opendoor in 2014 to automate purchasing homes with cash. Now, he's targeting a different side of the real estate equation: construction. His new startup, NavigateAI, aims to build what Wu describes as an AI coach for construction…
Inside The Earliest Bets Of The AI Era
Before OpenAI became a trillion-dollar IPO candidate, before AI coding assistants generated billions in revenue, and before defense tech became one of Silicon Valley's hottest categories, a small group of seed investors had already made their bets.
The Companies Defining The Midas Era
For 25 years, the Forbes Midas List has tracked the venture investors generating the largest returns in venture capital. Across multiple technology eras, a relatively small group of startups has generated an outsized share of those returns. They…
The Midas List Formula: How The World's Top Venture Capitalists Are Ranked
The Midas List is built on the premise that the venture capitalists who consistently generate the strongest investment outcomes should be identifiable through the quality and performance of the companies they back—not merely by industry…
The Savvy Logic Behind VC Bets In 'Uninvestable' Sectors
Defense, energy, robotics and government have historically been classic no-go areas for VC investment. These “hard” industries have slow procurement cycles, tight regulatory oversight and high-friction customer migration in common.
The Venture Capitalists Winning The Frontier Race
In venture capital, the biggest fortunes are rarely made once a trend becomes obvious. By the time dozens of firms are competing for allocations into OpenAI or Anthropic, the investors generating truly outsized returns have usually been in for…
Israel defense ecosystem meets to accelerate fieldable counter-drone tech
More than 200 members of Israel's defense-tech community met on Tuesday for an urgent closed-door session to discuss how to accelerate deployment of solutions addressing the use of fiber optic and first person view (FPV) drones to attack IDF forces…
After the Shein shock, Everlane's founder launches his next act
Last weekend, when Puck announced that the sustainable fashion startup Everlane had been acquired by the Chinese ultra fast fashion retailer Shein, it sent shockwaves throughout the fashion world. Michael Preysman, who founded Everlane in 2011, was…
Maritime Startup Fund Aims to Help U.S. Catch China in Shipbuilding
The investment arm of warehousing giant Prologis and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) are the chief backers of a new venture capital fund aimed at investing in shipbuilding projects as the U.S. seeks to revitalize the industry. Early-stage…
Lawmaker suggests charity element for HK investment migration scheme
A lawmaker has suggested allowing part of the required investment under the New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES) to be used for charitable purposes. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Under the scheme, applicants are required to invest at…
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