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World's Top Venture Capital Investors Of 2023
Forbes Middle East - English
|Jan 2024
These are the top five investors featured on Forbes' 2023 Midas List, from cryptocurrency investors to global capital managers.
1. Neil Shen
Firm: HongShan
Notable deal: ByteDance
Headquarters: Hong Kong, China SAR
Citizenship: Hong Kong
Shen serves as the founding and managing partner of HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, the Chinese arm of the U.S. venture capital giant. Renowned for backing Meituan, Pinduoduo, and ByteDance, the 55-year-old secured the top spot on the 2023 Midas List, his twelfth appearance. With a background in investment banking at Deutsche Bank Hong Kong, Chemical Bank, Lehman Brothers, and Citibank, Shen co-founded Ctrip.com before joining Sequoia. Forbes valued his fortune at $3.6 billion as of November 21, 2023.
2. Micky Malka
Firm: Ribbit Capital
Notable deal: Coinbase
Headquarters: U.S.
Citizenship: Venezuela
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