Midas List Feeder Firms

The Forbes Midas list just came out today. But it doesn't answer the question I know you have: who do you know that can get Jim Breyer to take a look at your go-go somoloco robofoto co?

We at Neu VC decided to help you out. We scoured the Crunchbases to find out which investors coinvest with or invest prior to the Midas List investors' firms. You can think of these firms as the Midas List feeder firms.

The firms are ranked by the percentage of the companies they invested in over the past five years that a Midas List firm invested in at the same time or later.

	Fund	% Midas
1.	Collaborative Fund	86%
2.	Glynn Capital Management	82%
3.	Felicis Ventures	81%
4.	XG Ventures	81%
5.	Thrive Capital	80%
6.	PivotNorth Capital	78%
7.	Forerunner Ventures	77%
8.	Start Fund	76%
9.	Lerer Ventures	76%
10.	Red Swan Ventures	75%
11.	Version One Ventures	75%
12.	DAG Ventures	73%
13.	High Line Venture Partners	71%
14.	Freestyle Capital	71%
15.	Founder Collective	69%
16.	O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures	68%
17.	SoftTech VC	67%
18.	Tekton Ventures	67%
19.	Cowboy Ventures	67%
20.	Morado Venture Partners	67%
21.	CrunchFund	66%
22.	MuckerLab	63%
23.	Harrison Metal Capital	62%
24.	Northgate Capital	60%
25.	Phenomen Ventures	60%
26.	NextView Ventures	59%
27.	Neu Venture Capital	57%
28.	Kapor Capital	57%
29.	ENIAC Ventures	57%
30.	TriplePoint Capital	57%
31.	Radar Partners	57%
32.	Spring Ventures	57%
33.	A-Grade Investments	56%
34.	Data Collective	56%
35.	Trilogy Equity Partnership	55%
36.	Advancit Capital	55%
37.	Quest Venture Partners	54%
38.	Thomvest Ventures	53%
39.	Transmedia Capital	53%
40.	Helion Venture Partners	53%
41.	Vulcan Capital	53%
42.	Correlation Ventures	52%
43.	IA Ventures	52%
44.	Jafco Ventures	50%
45.	MentorTech Ventures	50%
46.	Silverton Partners	50%
47.	White Star Capital	50%
48.	Graph Ventures	50%
49.	Amicus Capital	50%
50.	Mohr Davidow Ventures	49%
51.	General Catalyst Partners	49%
52.	Google Ventures	48%
53.	Sutter Hill Ventures	48%
54.	Maveron	48%

The usual caveats: the data from Crunchbase is woefully incomplete. It doesn't include all deals. It doesn't have most angel investors, who might be the best way to get to some of these firms (because of the spotty angel coverage I decided to exclude anyone Crunchbase did not consider a 'financial organization,' so almost all angels are not on the list.)

I excluded firms that were primarily life sciences/biomedical and firms that invested primarily in non-US companies. I looked at investments for the last five years and weeded out firms that made fewer than five initial investments in that period or fewer than three in the last year.

I'm sure there's some signal in here, but there's also a ton of noise. Treat it as entertainment. There are many explanations for why these firms are here and others are not. Some good, some eh. For instance, note that Google Ventures is number 52; Google Ventures is making some solid bets and adding a ton of value. Why are they 52? I don't know.

Also note that the 40 firms from the Midas List that were used to generate this list are not themselves on the list. So, if you're like "why isn't SV Angel here?" the answer is that they are on the Midas List itself.