This morning FORBES tech team tallied its annual list of the most successful venture capitalists of the last 12 months—a year of incredible activity for the community. “After a decade of mediocre returns,” writes my colleague Tomio Geron, “The venture business is buzzing like it’s 1999. Facebook this year will launch an historic stock offering, following a spate of IPOs from other venture-backed startups, like LinkedIn, Groupon, Splunk and Zynga.”
Indeed, it seems like business in The Valley is booming: startup capital is plentiful the battle for talent is heating up and the venture capitalists are hot on the trail of the next big thing. But while money is certainly changing hands in the tech community—and the Midas list highlights the top 100 investors each year—one thing is still made glaringly obvious with the list: of the 100 venture capitalists profiled, only five of them are women. While it’s easy to bemoan the dirth of women (and oh, do we bemoan), first it’s time to celebrate.
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