Every year, Forbes experts publish the so-called "Midas List". It includes the world's most successful venture capitalists, i.e. people who are not afraid to invest millions of dollars in an ambitious, but sometimes risky project. Russian entrepreneurs do not stand aside either, who can assess the potential of any undertaking and invest in the most worthwhile of them.
It was they who entered the Top 10 most successful venture investors in Russia in 2013.
10.Sergey Belousov
Under the management of the Runa Capital fund, owned by Belousov, - $ 135 million. Until 2012, the fund had a stake in the British cloud services company ThinkGrid. Together with the Alexander Galitsky Foundation, Belousov is a co-owner of the Parallels IT company.
9. Marina Treshchova
The only woman in the top ten venture capital investors, until 2012 was a co-owner of the online shoe store Sapato. Among other well-known projects of the Treshchova Foundation is the Shopping Live TV shop.
8.Andrey Kazakov
The youngest member of the Top 10 is only 27 years old, but his Foresight Ventures fund has already had several successful deals. The first is joint participation in the creation of a service for comparing prices for DealAngel hotels, as well as the social network of realtors Rentjuice and service for travel agencies Flextrip.
7. Ulvi Kasimov
The largest transaction of Kasimov's venture fund IQ One is the sale of part of the shares of the cloud service for business automation "Megaplan" to the market leader - 1C. Kasimov is one of the largest investors in the Peterhof fund - he contributed 5 million rubles, having received part of the fund under his management.
6. Eduard Shenderovich
Created by Shenderovich in 2006, Kite Ventures has about $ 60 million under management. The most successful investments of the fund are gaming sites Kanobu.ru, OGL ru, WorldGames.ru, GamesLife.ru, discount site Darberry, hotel reservation site Ostrovok.
5. Mikhail Chuchkevich
Under the management of the Bright Capital venture fund headed by Chuchkevich - $ 220 million. The fund's largest deal in recent years is the sale of the DealAngel hotel selection service. Chuchkevich started venture investments when he was Chubais's advisor at the Rusnano Group of Companies.
4. Alexander Galitsky
The founder of the Almaz Capital Partners fund has about $ 200 million under management. Galitsky is one of the sponsors of the high-profile Foundation B612 project, which aims to raise money for the production of a space telescope for tracking asteroids.
3. Leonid Boguslavsky
Boguslavsky is a co-owner of ru-Net Ventures and RTP Ventures venture funds. The capitalist is involved in more than 20 companies, mainly related to the Internet. The investor owns a 20% stake in one of the largest Internet stores on the Runet - the Ozon.ru megamarket.
2. Victor Remsha
For the first time people started talking about Remsha as a successful venture investor after the sale in 2012 of 49.9% of the advertising service Begun of the United Company Rambler and Afisha. The head of the Finam fund is also known for investing in Banki.ru resource, Astrostar horoscope compilation service, as well as in the production of computer games.
1. Yuri Milner
The founder of the DTS fund is the most successful venture investor and the only one among Russians to be included in the global Midas List, ranking 35th. Milner received fabulous profits from investments in Facebook, Zygna, Groupon and other Internet projects.The most promising among Milner's current investments are the IPOs of Twitter, as well as the Chinese Alibaba Group.