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Released each year by Forbes magazine, the Midas List ranks the top investors in technology. These fine men and women lead the pack in terms of angel investing, venture capital firms and devoting funding to technology startups around the world.

Using data compiled by TrueBridge Capital Partners, Forbes created this list by ranking the investors that were able to "generate profits for their investors and help to build valuable technology and life science companies." A number of factors went into the rankings, including the amount of involvement the venture capitalist had in the growth of the startup company, the size of the investment transactions and the frequency of the investment transactions, among other factors.

Once all the numbers were crunched, Jim Breyer from Accel Partners came out on top. Among other top brands, Breyer's Accel Partners invested in Facebook, turning $12.7 million into $5 billion. Accel, Breyer and others at the firm on this list are also involved in companies like Marvel Entertainment, Etsy and BBN Technologies.

It's no surprise that many of those who made the Midas List are involved in the most active venture capital firms of the last decade, as the combined funding provided by these fine individuals and firms have made many of the brands, companies and websites we use today household names.

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Rank   Name Profession Gender Institution Degree
  1. 1
    Investor
    Stanford University, Harvard University
    Accel Partners
  2. 2
    Venture capitalist
    Male
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford, Christ Church, Oxford, University of Pennsylvania More
    Master's degree, M.A.
    Sequoia Capital
  3. 3
    Businessperson, Entrepreneur
    Male
    Stanford University, University of Oxford, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute More
    Bachelor of Science
    Greylock Partners
  4. 4
    Venture capitalist
    Male
    Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
    MBA, Bachelor of Arts
    Benchmark Capital
  5. 5
    Venture capitalist
    Male
    Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dartmouth College
    MBA, Bachelor of Arts
    New Enterprise Associates
  6. 6
    Entrepreneur, Venture capitalist
    Male
    Stanford University, Stanford Graduate School of Business
    Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Bachelor of Arts, MBA
    Accel Partners
  7. 7
    Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Chief Executive Officer
    Male
    Stanford University
    Founders Fund
  8. 8

    Peter J. Barris

    New Enterprise Associates
  9. 9
    Venture capitalist
    Male
    Stanford Graduate School of Business, Yale University
    MBA, Bachelor of Arts
    Greylock Partners
  10. 10
    Programmer
    Male
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Andreessen Horowitz
  11. 11
    Venture capitalist
    Male
    Columbia University, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology More
    Master of Science, Bachelor of Science
    Sequoia Capital
  12. 12
    Male
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology More
    Union Squares Ventures
  13. 13

    Ronald Conway

    Male
    SV Angel investor
  14. 14
    Venture capitalist
    Male
    Rice University, Harvard University
    Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, MBA
    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  15. 15
    Venture capitalist
    Male
    Brown University, Stanford Graduate School of Business
    Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, MBA
    Greylock Partners
  16. 16

    Bryan E Roberts

    Male
    Venrock
  17. 17
    FLOODGATE
  18. 18

    Josh Kopelman

    Businessperson, Entrepreneur
    Male
    First Round Capital
  19. 19
    Venture capitalist
    Male
    University of California, Berkeley, Stanford Graduate School of Business More
    Bachelor of Science, MBA
    Redpoint Ventures
  20. 20

    Jeremy Levine

    Male
    Bessemer Venture Partners
  21. 21
    Venture capitalist
    Male
    Harvard Business School, Duke University
    MBA, Bachelor's degree
    New Enterprise Associates
  22. 22

    David R. Skok

    Male
    University of Sussex
    Bachelor of Science
    Matrix Partners
  23. 23

    Ross A. Jaffe

    Versant Ventures
  24. 24

    Jay Hoag

    Male
    Northwestern University, University of Michigan
    Bachelor of Arts, MBA
    Technology Crossover Ventures
  25. 25

    Yuri Milner

    Digital Sky Technologies

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