SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List
January 30th, 2009 by Benjamin KuoSouthern California venture capitalists are mostly absent from Forbes’ latest Midas List — the magazine’s list of the most influential venture capitalists — with the exception of Domain Associates’ James Blair. The subjective list–based on Forbes’ assessment of how much venture capitalists did for their investors–has previously included Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Andrew Senyei of Enterprise Partners, and Clearstone’s Bill Elkus, along with Blair.
Of course, with exits few and far between nowadays, the traditional data that drives the list — who backed the biggest and best exits — is hard to come by.