The Top 23 Seed-Stage Investors for 2024 ๐ธ ๐
Forbes has just released its highly anticipated ranking of the top seed investors for 2024. While landing on a Forbes cover hasn’t always guaranteed good fortune (remember Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Changpeng Zhao?), making it onto this list is a different story.
To qualify for this prestigious ranking, investors must have portfolio companies that have either gone public, been acquired for at least $50 million, or have private valuations exceeding $100 million.
Here’s the top 23 for 2024 (with LinkedIn tags):
1) Pejman Nozad – Pear VC (Notable Deal: DoorDash) | Atherton
2) David Frankel – Founder Collective (Deal: SeatGeek) | Mass
3) Benjamin Sun – Primary Venture Partners (Coupang) | NY
4) Anna Fang – ZhenFund ็ๆ ผๅบ้ (RED) | Beijing, China
5) Benjamin Ling – Bling Capital (Deal: Veho) | Miami
6) Ann Miura-Ko – Floodgate (Deal: SmarterDX) | Menlo Park
7) Satya Patel – Homebrew (Deal: Chime) | Burlingame, Ca
8) Aneel Ranadive – Soma Capital(Deal: Deel) | Miami
9) Pawel Chudzinski – Point Nine (Deal: Docplanner) | Berlin
10) Ed Sim – boldstart ventures (Deal: Snyk) | Miami
11) Reshma Sohoni – Seedcamp (Deal: UiPath) | Miami
12) Semil Shah – Haystack (Deal: Figma) | Mill Valley, Ca
13) Gil Dibner – Angular Ventures (Deal: CruxOCM) | Tel Aviv
14) Salil Deshpande – Uncorrelated (Deal: Redis) | Palo Alto
15) Jesse Beyroutey – IA Ventures (Deal: Komodo) | New York
16) Chad Byers – Susa Ventures (Deal: Robinhood) | SF
17) Wei Guo– UpHonest Capital (Deal: Rippling) | Menlo Park
18) Larry Li– Amino Capital (Notable Deal: Chime) | Palo Alto
19) Gili Raanan – Cyberstarts ( Deal: Wiz) | Israel
20) Tim Connors – PivotNorth Capital (Deal: Zipline) | Nashville
21) Ross Fubini – XYZ Venture Capital (Deal: Anduril) | SF
22) Jesse Walden – Variant (Deal: Uniswap) | New York
23) Topher Conway – SV Angel (Deal: Rippling) | SF
Source: Forbes
