I'm a senior editor at Forbes covering venture capital and startups, especially in cloud and AI, out of New York. I edit the Midas List and Under 30 for VC, and created the Midas List Europe and Cloud 100 lists. I've written more than a dozen cover stories on business leaders including Marc Benioff, Patrick Collison and Melanie Perkins.
From new fund managers to incubation experts, these young venture capital ists are funding the future, one tech startup at a time.decided to launch her venture capital firm Moth Fund in 2021, she raised some eyebrows. “I definitely don’t look like a model VC,” Mielke, 24, said. “I started to specialize more and more in helping tech companies at the earliest stages tell their stories.”
Mielke’s persistence paid off. She now counts billionaire investor Marc Andreessen, Coinbase cofounder Fred Ehrsam, AI investor Daniel Gross and Cendana Capital among the backers of her $6 million first fund at Moth Fund. Mielke has invested in 36 businesses so far, such as electric scooter firm Infinite Machine and robot dishwasher company Armstrong, writing checks of up to $250,000. She’s expected to raise a second fund in upcoming months, according to a source with knowledge of her plans.
Venture capitalists are known above all for writing checks, deploying the funding that startups often need to grow to maturity. But several of this year’s Under 30 cohort are taking a more hands-on approach., 29, leads strategy and operations for Menlo Labs, a startup studio inside of Menlo Ventures. She’s helped launch eight companies, including Squint.ai, a cloud cost-optimization platform.
Each list is judged by a panel of industry leaders after an open submission process. In Venture Capital, the 2025 list was judged byOf those named to the final list, 56% identify as people of color and 47% are women. This year’s list was edited by Alex Konrad, Dean Jones and David Jeans. For a link to our complete Venture Capital list,
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