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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…
Africa Startups Turn Inward as US AI Boom Drains Venture Capital
African startups are rewriting their funding playbook as the global artificial intelligence boom pulls venture capital toward the US, forcing emerging markets to compete for cash. AI-related VC investment doubled to $259 billion last year from…
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.
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.
Forbes Releases 11th Edition Of 30 Under 30 Asia List
The 2026 List Highlights 300 Outstanding Young Entrepreneurs And Innovators From Across The Asia-Pacific Region SINGAPORE (May 28, 2026) – Forbes released today the 11 annual edition of its “30 Under 30 Asia” list, featuring…
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…
From Language Learning To Industry-Specific Solutions, Meet The Innovators On The 30 Under 30 Consumer And Enterprise Technology List
In 2018, Jihyun Kim was studying software engineering as a freshman at Kyung Hee University in Suwon, just south of Seoul, when the launch of a faster and more accurate computer vision algorithm grabbed her attention. A year later, she took a break…
Meet The Fintech Founders And Investors Of The 30 Under 30 Asia 2026 List
In 2022 Patrick Nappa was working as a software engineer at Apple in Sydney when, inspired by the company's famous slogan, “think different,” he teamed up with a banker pal to launch a fintech firm offering online loans to small…
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.
30 Under 30 Asia: The Retail And Ecommerce Innovators Spotting New Market Opportunities
T hree former colleagues from a cryptocurrency startup that had cratered got together over sandwiches and coffee at a Bangalore café in April 2024 to brainstorm ideas for a new venture. When their order took too long to arrive, they realised…
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