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Forbes List of Top Women Angels and VCs

This Forbes List is actually ripped off from TechCocktail's Femanomics, which lists 106 great women in venture capital and angel investment.

The Femanomics list was put together by Melissa Pierce, below in alphabetical order.

Thank you Melissa Pierce for putting together this list!

*Note: If there is no venture fund listed, the women are private investors.

  1. Renata Akhunova - Innopolis-Kazan, SMARTiQ BA

  2. Geraldine Alias – North Bridge Venture Partners

  3. Cyan Banister

  4. Amy Banse – Comcast Ventures

  5. Rachel Botsmen – Collaborative Fund

  6. Corinne Bright – Onset Ventures

  7. Eileen Burbidge – White Bear Yard

  8. Christina Cacioppo – Union Square Ventures

  9. Marissa Campise – Venrock

  10. Carmen Chang – NEA

  11. CeCe Cheng – First Round Capital

  12. Julie Chin

  13. Meg Devine – North Bridge Venture Partners

  14. Monica  Dodi – Women’s VC Fund

  15. Tracy Doree – MMC Ventures

  16. Edith Dorsen – Women’s VC Fund

  17. Lara Druyan - G&B Partners

  18. Esther Dyson – EdVenture Holdings

  19. Amy Errett – Maveron

  20. Caterina Fake

  21. Deborah Farrington – StarVest Partners

  22. Shana Fisher – Highline Ventures

  23. Diane Fraiman – Voyager Capital

  24. Allison Goldberg – Time Warner Investments

  25. Theresia Gouw Ranzetta – Accel Partners

  26. Dayna Grayson – North Bridge Venture Partners

  27. Kirsten Green – Forerunner Ventures

  28. Jill Greenthal – The Blackstone Group

  29. Karen Griffith Gryga - MAG Fund

  30. Christine Herron – Intel Capital

  31. Mellody Hobson – Ariel Investments

  32. Sandra Horbach – The Carlyle Group

  33. Shirley Hornstein

  34. Ann Hummer – Hummer Winblad

  35. Naheed Ismaili Misfeldt – Aberdare Ventures

  36. Jessica Jackley – Kiva and Collaborative Fund

  37. Jalak Jobanputra – RTP Ventures

  38. Whitney Johnson – Rose Park Advisors

  39. Lynn Jurich

  40. Karin Klein – Bloomberg Ventures

  41. Sharon Knight – Avik Ventures

  42. Vani Kola – NEA Venture

  43. Venetia Kontogouris – Trident Capital

  44. Kay Koplovitz – Koplovitz & Co

  45. Jill Krishnamurthy – Dolphin Capital

  46. Rachel Lam – Time Warner Investments

  47. Lisa Lambert – Intel Capital

  48. Ann Lamont – Oak Investment Partners

  49. Christina LaMontagne – Physic Ventures

  50. Kathleen LaPorte – New Leaf Venture Partners

  51. Jenny Lee – GGV Capital

  52. Aileen Lee - Kleiner Perkins

  53. Ellen Levy

  54. Ruby Lu – DCM

  55. Jennifer Lum – Apricot Capital

  56. Rebecca Lynn – Morgenthaler Ventures

  57. Helen MacKenzie – Women’s VC Fund

  58. Holly Maloney – North Bridge Venture Partners

  59. Joy Marcus – DFJ Gotham Ventures

  60. Susan Mason – Aligned Partners

  61. Mary Meeker – Kleiner Perkins

  62. Nell Merlino – Make Mine A Million

  63. Kate Mitchell - Scale Venture Partners

  64. Ann Miura-Ko - Floodgate Fund

  65. Hollie Moore Haynes – Silver Lake Partners

  66. Patricia Nakache - Trinity Ventures

  67. Anna Nikolayevsky- Axel Capital

  68. Natalia Oberti Noguera – Pipeline Fellowship

  69. Rebecca Norlander – Illuminate Ventures

  70. Adele Oliva – Quaker Partners

  71. Michel Orban – RRE Ventures

  72. Cindy Padnos – Illuminate Ventures

  73. Stephanie Palmeri - Soft Tech VC

  74. Ellen Pao – Kleiner Perkins

  75. Jill Preotle

  76. Katie Rae – Techstars

  77. Theresia Gouw Ranzetta – Accel Partners

  78. Amanda Reed – Palomar Ventures

  79. Julie Richardson – Providence Equity

  80. Laura Sachar – StarVest Partners

  81. Sarah Sclarsic – Canaan Partners

  82. Dana Settle – Greycroft Partners

  83. Rachel Sheinbein – CMEA Capital

  84. Ruthi Simha – Plenus

  85. Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

  86. Reshma Sohoni - Seedcamp

  87. Victoria Song – Flybridge Capital Partners

  88. Marya Stark

  89. Lucinda Stewart – OVP Venture Partners

  90. Jeanne Sullivan – StarVest Partners

  91. Sarah Tavel – Bessemer Venture

  92. Maria C. Thomas - MariaThomas.org

  93. Dafina Toncheva – Tugboat Ventures

  94. Sigrid Van Bladel - Aberdare Ventures

  95. Trae Vassallo – Kleiner Perkins

  96. Medha Vedaprakash – RHO Ventures

  97. Bess Weatherman – Warburg Pincus

  98. Ellen Weber – Robin Hood Ventures

  99. Margit Wennmachers – Andreessen Horowitz

  100. Ellie Wheeler – Greycroft Partners

  101. Sharon Wienbar – Scale Venture Partners

  102. Joanne Wilson

  103. Ann Winblad – Hummer Winblad

  104. Alison Wistner – Mercato Partners

  105. Marianne Wu – Mohr Davidow

  106. Gwill York – Lighthouse Capital

Melissa's TechCocktail article has links to their Twitter accounts, too.

There are a lot of great people on that list, and it feels like we're just getting started.

4:26 PM Jun 12 2012

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Fabulous list Adam! .. love to see you promoting these awesome women helping to change other peoples lives !

7:04 PM Jun 12 2012

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If I get a free moment I'll put links to their AngelList profiles.

Or feel free to look them up on http://angel.co/ individually. ;)

7:06 PM Jun 12 2012

:) already one step ahead of you

7:12 PM Jun 12 2012

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I should remember that whenever I'm about to say something...

See also these Quora answer to Who are some notable female investors?

7:17 PM Jun 12 2012

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thanks buddy ... :) Hope Beavis is doing ok :(

7:25 PM Jun 12 2012

He's still hanging in there, Louise. Just like everyone these days, it seems.

10:49 PM Aug 28 2012

Ellen Pao is #74. I wonder whether the KPCB scandal affected her placement on the list in either direction.

8:05 PM Jun 12 2012

It's an alphabetical list, so nope. :)

Some day, someone will come out with a ranked list.

Till then, this is the most comprehensive list I've seen.

8:34 PM Jun 12 2012

Update, August 28, 2012. Regarding #33 on the list, Shirley Hornstein.

This page was pointed to by TechCrunch -- Anthony Ha on @Shirls misrepresenting.

You learn something new every day.

6:32 PM Aug 29 2012

Catch her if you can.

12:31 AM Aug 29 2012

Well, right now she's at the GOP convention according to SFist.

SFist also links back to this page, for those of you keeping score at home.

6:32 PM Aug 29 2012

Thank God for these Angel Ladies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8:05 PM Jun 16 2012

Thank God for all Angels. ;)

10:36 PM Aug 28 2012

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