By way of the
upcoming TechCrunch
“un-conference” style demo-brainstorm-fest Wiki I came across a
blog post by Michael
Arrington titled:
Top 5 Web 2.0 VCs. Here is the entire list (Top 5, Notables,
and Up and Coming) extracted from the post (see my
linkblog page to get some insight into the motivation behind
this post):
David
Cowan
is a partner at
Bessemer Venture Partners
and writes a blog
called Who Has Time For
This
.
He’s on this list partially because he incubated the hottest and
most anticipated company on the web right now, Flock.
Tim Draper
invested in Skype.
Done. He also sits on the board of SocialText, and his fund was in
Baidu.
David Hornik
is is a General
Partner at August Capital and writes a blog that has over 10,000 RSS
readers.
Josh Kopelman, through FirstRoundCapital,
is quietly filtering through just about every young web 2.0
company, and investing in many of them.
Fred Wilson is a founding partner of Union Square
Ventures and writes the extremely
popular A VC. If you are new to web 2.0,
start with his Blogging
1.0 post.
Jeff Clavier - Jeff
is a former VC and
still makes the odd angel investment (Feedster, Truveo, and a few
others). His new venture allows him to work with
pre-funding companies and get them ready for prime time.
Brad Feld - Brad is a managing director
at Mobius Venture
Capital and writes a must-read web 2.0
blog called Feld Thoughts. Read his posts on
Term Sheets if you are in the process of
raising capital.
O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
- This is the only
non-person on here. OATV just closed a $50 million fund
to invest in young companies. Given the incredible access Tim
O’Reilly has to these companies, OATV could quickly become an
important fund in the web 2.0 space.
Pierre Omidyar - Pierre founded ebay and is the
Co-founder of Omidyar
Network
, where he’s invested in a
number of interesting companies including EVDB, SocialText and
Feedster, and others.
Peter Rip
- Peter is a
founding partner of Leapfrog
Ventures, a $100 million fund. Peter
also writes Early Stage
VC
,
another must-read blog. His investments include ojos, an incredible
new photo-metadata service that is going to be extremely disruptive
(and useful).
Peter Thiel
- Peter, the
former CEO of paypal, has invested in LinkedIn, Friendster,
LinkedIn and other web 2.0 companies. He’s just created the
Founders
Fund
.
Thomas Ball
- Tom is a Venture Partner at Austin
Ventures, a fund with $3 billion under management. He’s their
consumer and web 2.0 guy and seems to be spending a lot of time in
Silicon Valley and at web 2.0 event.
Dan Grossman
-
Dan is a principal at Venrock
Associates and has recently started a great blog called
A Venture Forth
(where he wrote a
much bookmarked post on
Ajax
).
Jason
Pressman - Jason
is a principal at
Shasta Ventures, a young $200 million fund that has a deep
commitment to and expertise in consumer-focused
businesses.