<p>Nine Indian Americans have made it to the list of 100 dealmakers with "Midas Touch" compiled by the Forbes Magazine.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Forbes list comprises of venture capitalists who had made investments in start-up companies and then sold off their stakes with handsome gains.<br /><br />Aneel Bhusri the co-CEO of Workday -- a cloud-based financials and human resources software company was ranked 25th in the list.<br /><br />The list was topped by Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, who had bet USD 12.7 million on a Harvard drop-out with a social network (Facebook), a deal that turned into a "once-in-a- generation investment" Forbes said.<br /><br />With an 11 per cent stake, Accel Partners, is Facebook's second largest shareholder after Mark Zuckerberg. Breyer personally owns 1 per cent in Facebook.<br /><br />Bhusri is accompanied by 8 other persons of Indian origin on the list, including Navin Chaddha (46th) -- an IIT graduate who heads India investments of Mayfield Fund-and well-known venture capitalist Vinod Khosla (34th).<br /><br />Chaddha's current investments include those in mobile app platform, Appcelerator, cloud storage company, StorSimple, a social media company, Gigya, fashion app, Poshmark, and India- based Bharat Matrimony.<br /><br />Others on the list include Rob Chandra (28th), Sameer Gandhi (33rd), Neeraj Agrawal (36th), Ajay Agarwal (95th), Asheem Chandna (96th) and Subrata Mitra (99th).<br /><br />Rob Chandra had a string of IPOs on India public markets, including IL&FS Transportation Networks (2010), Orient Green Power (2008), Shriram EPC (2008), OnMobile (2008) and Motilal Oswal Financial Services (2007).<br /><br />His current investments include Avnera (semiconductors), Tilera (multi-processors) and Applied Solar Technologies (energy services).<br /><br />Gandhi's current investments include growth investments in hot music startup Spotify and celebrity-focused ecommerce site BeachMint, as well as social browser StumbleUpon, an India online shopping site called Flipkart and custom men’s pants retailer Bonobos.<br /><br />Neeraj Agrawal's current investments include some hot companies such as Marketo and Wayfair, as well as Brightree, Glassdoor and Sprinklr.<br /><br />Mobile, internet and software investor Ajay Agarwal invested in warehouse robot company Kiva Systems, which was sold to Amazon for USD 775 million in March 2012.<br />Chandna's current investments include Aquantia, AppDynamics, Delphix, Sumo Logic, TechProcess, Xsigo Systems, and Zenprise.<br /><br />Subratra Mitra had invested in Flipkartm which recently raised a new funding round reportedly at a USD 850 million valuation.</p>
<p>Nine Indian Americans have made it to the list of 100 dealmakers with "Midas Touch" compiled by the Forbes Magazine.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Forbes list comprises of venture capitalists who had made investments in start-up companies and then sold off their stakes with handsome gains.<br /><br />Aneel Bhusri the co-CEO of Workday -- a cloud-based financials and human resources software company was ranked 25th in the list.<br /><br />The list was topped by Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, who had bet USD 12.7 million on a Harvard drop-out with a social network (Facebook), a deal that turned into a "once-in-a- generation investment" Forbes said.<br /><br />With an 11 per cent stake, Accel Partners, is Facebook's second largest shareholder after Mark Zuckerberg. Breyer personally owns 1 per cent in Facebook.<br /><br />Bhusri is accompanied by 8 other persons of Indian origin on the list, including Navin Chaddha (46th) -- an IIT graduate who heads India investments of Mayfield Fund-and well-known venture capitalist Vinod Khosla (34th).<br /><br />Chaddha's current investments include those in mobile app platform, Appcelerator, cloud storage company, StorSimple, a social media company, Gigya, fashion app, Poshmark, and India- based Bharat Matrimony.<br /><br />Others on the list include Rob Chandra (28th), Sameer Gandhi (33rd), Neeraj Agrawal (36th), Ajay Agarwal (95th), Asheem Chandna (96th) and Subrata Mitra (99th).<br /><br />Rob Chandra had a string of IPOs on India public markets, including IL&FS Transportation Networks (2010), Orient Green Power (2008), Shriram EPC (2008), OnMobile (2008) and Motilal Oswal Financial Services (2007).<br /><br />His current investments include Avnera (semiconductors), Tilera (multi-processors) and Applied Solar Technologies (energy services).<br /><br />Gandhi's current investments include growth investments in hot music startup Spotify and celebrity-focused ecommerce site BeachMint, as well as social browser StumbleUpon, an India online shopping site called Flipkart and custom men’s pants retailer Bonobos.<br /><br />Neeraj Agrawal's current investments include some hot companies such as Marketo and Wayfair, as well as Brightree, Glassdoor and Sprinklr.<br /><br />Mobile, internet and software investor Ajay Agarwal invested in warehouse robot company Kiva Systems, which was sold to Amazon for USD 775 million in March 2012.<br />Chandna's current investments include Aquantia, AppDynamics, Delphix, Sumo Logic, TechProcess, Xsigo Systems, and Zenprise.<br /><br />Subratra Mitra had invested in Flipkartm which recently raised a new funding round reportedly at a USD 850 million valuation.</p>