BEST OF DISRUPTION 2016

We worked with The New York Times and used the CB Insights
Investor Mosaic algorithm to develop a data-driven ranking of the
top venture capital partners. Here are the top 100.
MARCH 13, 2016
The Top 100 Venture
Capitalists
We started working with The New York
Times in late 2015 to identify and rank
the top 100 venture capital
professionals using the CB Insights
Investor Mosaic algorithm.
It is a purely data-driven / algorithmic
ranking that uses CB Insights data. We’d
gathered this data via our machine
learning technology (dubbed The
Cruncher) as well as via several
thousand direct submissions from firms
and individual professionals using The
Editor.
The Investor Mosaic page walks
through the factors considered in the
algorithm in some detail but at a highlevel,
it considers several factors
including:
An investor’s exits – the
frequency/volume, size, and
stage of entry
Network centrality – connectivity
to other investors. Think of it as
akin to Google Pagerank.
Consistency – stage, industry
consistency of investments
Illiquid portfolio company value –
frequency, size and stage of
entry in high value (but un-exited
companies). Given relatively less
weight as these are paper
valuations
Recency of performance – Our
focus was on these metrics since
2008. As a result, we didn’t give a
lot of credit to those who made
glorious picks in the 80s, 90s, or
early 2000s. This is a ranking of
today’s best VCs — not the best
VCs in history.
Click here for the full list.