Forbes magazine just published the 24th instalment of its annual ‘Midas List’, a rundown of the 100 best VC investors in the world.
Compiled using submissions from VC firms and publicly available data, the Midas List evaluates investors’ success based on their returns over the past five years.
To qualify, VCs must have invested in companies that — within that period — either went public or were acquired for a minimum of $200m, or that have at least doubled in valuation to $400m or more.
This year’s list features just seven investors based in Europe, with six of them operating out of London and just one from Berlin.
Europe-based VCs on the Forbes 2025 Midas list:
Eric Liaw
Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)
Notable deal: UiPath
Rank: 100
Danny Rimer
Index Ventures
Notable deal: Figma
Rank: 94
Phillipe Botteri
Accel
Notable deal: Docusign
Rank: 59
Luciana Lixandru
Sequoia
Notable deal: UiPath
Rank: 51
Jan Hammer
Index Ventures
Notable deal: Robinhood
Rank: 50
Tom Stafford
DST Global
Notable deal: Nubank
Rank: 43
Pawel Chudzinski
Point Nine Capital
Notable deal: Revolut
Rank: 28
