AlwaysOn's Top 100 Venture Capitalists
The Forbes Midas List may be gone, but AlwaysOn has stepped into the breach with what founder Tony Perkins says will be its first annual VC100 list of top performing venture capitalists. Winners were selected based on four years worth of data -- from Oct. 1, 2005 through Sept. 30, 2009 -- and were judged on "total number and dollar amounts of successful M&A and IPO deals from their portfolio companies. For IPOs, AlwaysOn examined opening market capitalization as well as subsequent stock performance, relative to the Nasdaq. For each investment, AlwaysOn counted one lead investor per firm, in order to identify the true dealmakers. Much of the data required for a thorough evaluation remains private and inaccessible..." No one from Kleiner Perkins made the list, which is unusual, and it isn't ranked -- the copy I have is in alphabetical order. Get it after the jump:
