Top Venture Capital Firms – Based on InvestorRank

InvestorRank is a method that has been developed by Chris Farmer, a VC at General Catalyst Partners. Based on this ranking, a list of the top venture capital firms has been created. InvestorRank works like Google's PageRank. Where Google's PageRank orders search results based on how many links each page gets from other sites, InvestorRank looks at the connections between venture capital firms. A bond is created whenever two venture capital firms co-invest in the same deal. If one of the venture capital firms follows another one in a later round, that boosts the rank of the earlier investor. The more that venture capital firms invest in syndicates with other highly ranked venture capital firms or even before they do, the higher the InvestorRank. According to this method of ranking, the top five venture capital firms are: Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Accel, Benchmark Capital, and Union Square Ventures.