Mary Meeker – a general partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Age: 58 years old
Country: USA
Position in the rating of 2018: 6
Mary Meeker is the only woman who entered the top ten ranking. She earned a fortune by investing in key players on the Internet market - Facebook, JD.com, Airbnb, Spotify, and Twitter. She is an author of the annual Internet Trends report, which covers trends of the Internet industry. This is the most authoritative study of its kind.
Miker is not married.
Rebecca Lynn – a co-founder and general partner in Canvas Ventures
Age: 58 years old
Country: USA
Position in the rating of 2018: 31
The main areas for venture capital investments, on which Lynn focuses, are fintech, digital healthcare, and artificial intelligence. One of the latest projects, which was invested by Rebecca Lynn (the financing round reached $9.5 million), was the Gabi company. The firm helps to analyze the data and personally selects the best insurance rates.
Lynn is married and has three children.
Anna Miura-Ko – a partner of Floodgate
Age: 41 years old
Country: USA
Position in the rating of 2018: 55
She is an investor who invests in the companies that develop software for artificial intelligence - Ayasdi and Xamarin. Companies were bought by Microsoft in February 2016 for more than $400 million. Except that Anna is engaged in investment, she also gives courses on fast-growing start-ups at Stanford University. Forbes refers to such an interesting fact about the girl: Miura-Ko can print the whole English alphabet in four seconds.
Beth Saindberg – a general partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Country: USA
Position in the rating of 2018: 62
Beth is a doctor, that's probably why she chooses companies which are engaged in digital health care and biotechnology. Moreover, she is a member of Board of Directors, which consists 12 pharmaceutical companies, including Atara Bio, Epizyme, and Tesaro.
Saindberg is married and has two children.
Jenny Lee – a managing partner in GGV Capital
Age: 46 years old
Country: Singapore
Position in the rating of 2018: 74
One of the most respected venture capital investors in China. Lee is interested in completely different projects - from the application of the Lingochamp artificial intelligence, which helps the Chinese to improve their spoken English, to the world's first company of the eHang184 flying taxi. Among the projects in which Lee has invested, is also a publisher of computer games, Gamepedia and China Talent Group, which specializes in personnel management.
Jenny Lee is married.
Kirsten Green – a founder of Forerunner Ventures Foundation
Age: 46 years old
Country: USA
Position in the rating of 2018: 77
A graduate of the University of California in Los Angeles, Kirsten Green worked as a stock analyst in the Montgomery Securities investment bank in San Francisco. Before the foundation of Forerunner Ventures, Kirsten spent several years working as a business angel. She is also an investor in the women's venture companies of Birchbox and Glossier.
Green is a co-founder of the American All Raise venture club for women. The club aims to increase the number of women in the venture industry.
Kirsten Green is married and has two children.
Theresa Gow - a founding partner of Aspect Ventures
Age: 46 years old
Country: USA
Position in the rating of 2018: 89
In 2014, Theresa Gow, together with her business partner Jennifer Fonstad, founded the venture fund - Aspect Ventures. The fund specializes in start-ups, which develop software and security technologies. She invested in such start-ups as Trulia (real estate search service entered the IPO in 2012), Cato Networks (engaged in network security), and Exabeam (leader in studies related to behaviour of the Internet users).
Teresa Gow has two children.
Sonali De Rycker - a partner of the Accel Venture Fund
Age: 44 years old
Country: United Kingdom
Position in the rating of 2018: 95
Sonali was born in the Indian city of Mumbai, studied at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and was an employee of one of the world's largest investment banks Goldman Sachs and the Atlas Venture company, then in 2008, joined Accel.
Accel Fund invested in the Swedish Spotify start-up, a service that allows you to legally and for free listen to music tracks. The key role in those investments was played by Sonali. She also invested in the Russian KupiVIP online shop.
Sonali De Rycker has two children, she is married.
Aileen Lee - a founder of the Cowboy Ventures Fund
Age: 48 years old
Country: USA
Position in the rating of 2018: 97
A debutante of the Midas list in 2018. Aileen Lee invested in such projects as Bloom Energy, a company that develops new types of generators for urban communications, and Rent the Runway, an online rental service of designer clothes.
In addition, Lee is one of the founders of the All Raise venture club. Before the foundation of her own company, she worked in the venture fund of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Aileen Lee is also successful in family life, she is married and has three children.
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