Post of Techcrunch, June 27, 2009.
So which venture investors have the best networks? Here are the top 10:
1. Draper Fisher Jurvetson
2. Sequoia Capital
3. Accel Partners
4. Intel Capital
5. First Round Capital
6. Dag Ventures
7. New Enterprise Associates
8. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
9. Benchmark Capital
10. Ron Conway
Vijay Dondeti
, a graduate student in bioinformatics, applied the analysis in the Hochberg paper to about 2,700 investors in CrunchBase
who participated in over 3,300 startup funding rounds between 2006 and
2008. He scored each investor based on how well connected they are to
other investors as well as how well-connected their co-investors are to
other investors. “In summary,” says Dondeti, “to get a high score, you
need to co-invest often with others that also co-invest often.”
Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance -
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