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May 25, 2011 05:34 pm GMT

The Top 10 VC Firms, According To InvestorRank

Any seasoned investor knows that past performance is not indicative of future returns. That is as true with public stocks as it is with venture capital firms. But if someone were to ask you to rank the top VC firms today based on their probability of success, how would you do it? Remember, looking at past returns won't help you.Chris Farmer, a VC at General Catalyst Partners, has come up with a method which he calls InvestorRank. Just as Google's PageRank orders search results based on how many links each page gets from other sites, InvestorRank looks at the connections between VC firms. Whenever two VC firms co-invest in the same deal, that creates a bond between them. If one VC firm follows another one in a later round, that boosts the rank of the earlier investor.

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