Пророки инвестиционного мира - комплексное обзорное исследование венчурной отрасли.
Сюрприз: На 9 место вырвался Юрий Мильнер!

Investigation of the effectiveness of investment on the first decade of the 21 century.
Created by Future Europe Rating association in 2010.

The technique is as follows:
we take the ratings of lucky investors that exit with the highest multipliers
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/99/midas09_The-Midas-List_Rank.html
http://www.herringevents.com/RHE2010/rhe2010winners/rhe2010winners.html
http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Business/world-top-billionaires.php
www.absolutereturn-alpha.com/Article/2453645/The-Rich-List.html
http://www.thefunded.com/funds/show/Foundry+Group
and add the investors that invested in early stage companies that are now showing the fastest growth (according to our rating of industries and http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/28/fast-tech-growth-technology-fasttech09_0129_intro.html).

In total, our field of vision were more than 100 investment companies have provided over the past 5-10 years, long-term growth in sales volume at a level no less than 30-40% per annum, and got in at least two reputable international rating.

Then we compile a list of his investing in fast-growing companies, and rating them by the number of successes (exits and invested companies from top-growest sectors with the highest multipliers - the biotechnology and ITC, including social media network).

Consider how increased investment in the three most successful project for each of them.
Detail: We make individually-group rating, so if someone from the investors have invested together in the composition of a company
Somehow this company and should be put as the sum of the 3 most successful investments of its members.

The highest weight, we have given rating of FORBES -
TOP 10 MIDAS LIST - ranking formula weighs most heavily either the market capitalization of the venture-backed firm at the time of its initial public offering or the company's acquisition price if purchased by another corporation.


Rating of prophets of the investment world.

If the first two prophets coincided with most other ratings, then the next surprise: On the third escaped Yuri Milner, due to the high multiples of social networks in which the invested capital - Mail.ru, Groupon & Facebook!

1 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers - L. John Doerr. Notable members of the firm include partners John Doerr, Ray Lane, and Brook Byers, as well as high-profile individuals such as Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
2 Sequoia Capital - Michael Moritz, Douglas Leone, Roelof Botha and Greg McAdoo
3 Medallion Fund - James Simons surged 70 - 80 percent two last years. Jim Simons' Renaissance Technologies, ranked 4th in Alpha's 2008 hedge fund rankings. http://www.marketfolly.com/2008/06/hedge-fund-rankings.html
4 Accel Partners - Arthur Patterson and J. Peter Wagner - has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful category-defining companies including: AdMob, Alfresco,Baidu, BBN Technologies, ComScore, Etsy, Facebook, Focus Media, Foundry Networks, Gameforge, Gigle Networks. Glam Media, Imperva, Infinera, Knewton, Macromedia, metroPCS, Mochi Media[1], Mu Sigma, Nimbula[2], Portal Software, QlikTech, Rapt, Real Networks, Redback Networks, Riverbed Technology, SB Nation, Sohu.com, Trulia.com, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, Webroot, XenSource, and Zimbra.
In addition to Accel’s continued investments in early-stage startups from the Accel X early stage fund, Accel announced its $480 million growth fund in December of 2008.
5 General Atlantic - William Ford (Invested $130 million in Archipelago Exchange and made 5.5 times his money selling to the New York Stock Exchange in 2006. Other big hits: New York Mercantile Exchange, Priceline.com and E*Trade)
6 Ronald Conway As founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, he was an early stage investor in Google, Ask Jeeves and PayPal
7 Arista Networks - Andreas von Bechtolsheim the first GOOGLE investor (found Granite Systems in the 1990s and later Kealia in 2003, then rejoined Sun in 2004 when it bought Kealia for $90 million. )
8 Eplanet Ventures - Asad Jamal
9 DST - Jury Milner (Mail.ru Group)
10 John Moores - JMI Equity had a substantial investment in DoubleClick, the New York digital marketing company acquired by Google for $3.1 billion in 2008. JMI says its other representative investments include Blackbaud, Eloqua, Navicure, Nimsoft, and Service-now.com. Service-now.com discloses that it has raised almost $41.4 million in a venture round that intends to raise more than $66.1 million. Sequoia Capital.
В 2008 - has secured $5 million of Series B funding to grow its business from JMI Equity.
Service-now.com Ranks 69 on 2010 Inc. 500 With Three-Year Sales Growth of More Than 3000 Percent - The fastest growing software company with revenues greater than $25 million
11 Tiger Global Management LLC - Charles P. Coleman III
12 Apax Partners
13 Stanford University - David Cheriton (Invested early in Google and VMware. Co-founded Granite Systems (sold to Cisco Systems for $220 million) and Kealia (sold to Sun Microsystems for $90 million)
14 Bessemer Venture Partners - Rob S. Chandra, G. Felda Hardymon, Robert P. Goodman, J. Edmund Colloton and David J. Cowan
15 Draper Fisher Jurvetson - T. Draper and Jennifer Fonstad
16 New Enterprise Associates - Peter J. Barris, M.Perry and Peter Morris -in 2007's sale of IronPort to Cisco for $830 million. Also sale of digital mapmaker Tele Atlas to Dutch GPS gizmo maker TomTom. Still working the IT beat with Force10 Networks, which recently announced a merger with Turin Networks.
17 Ram Shriram Sherpalo (Plaxo, gobbled up by Comcast, and Tellme company acquired by Microsoft in 2007. mKhoj and job-hunting site Naukri.com)
18 August Capital - Howard Hartenbaum - Had big exit in 2008 from social network Bebo, bought by AOL for $850 million. Was a primary investor in Internet phone company Skype, Cashed out in eBay's $3.1 billion acquisition in 2005
19 Mangrove Capital Partners - Mark Tluszcz Mangrove co-founder cashed in on eBay's $3.1 billion purchase of Skype in 2005
20 Telesoft Partners - Arjun Gupta
Since Gupta began venture investing, he has helped to build 61 companies, of which 33 have gone public or been acquired. Notable among them are Cerent, which was bought by Cisco Systems (CSCO), and Ikanos Communications (IKAN), which went public.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2009/tc20090610_428766.htm