From Alibaba and Meta to OpenAI and SpaceX, these are the startups that generated the greatest venture returns and defined 25 years of the Forbes Midas List.

From Alibaba and Meta to OpenAI and SpaceX, these are the startups that generated the greatest venture returns and defined 25 years of the Forbes Midas List.

OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic and other private companies are concentrating venture returns and reshaping the Midas List as trillion-dollar IPOs loom.

Profiles the investors whose early bets on AI, defense, space and frontier tech are reshaping the 2026 Midas List.

The 2026 Forbes Midas Brink List spotlights rising venture capitalists whose early bets on AI and frontier tech could land them on the Midas List in years ahead.

How Forbes and TrueBridge rank the world's top 100 venture capitalists—using verified data, private valuations and a methodology built to reward recent performance.