<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">he war in Ukraine, Europe&rsquo;s energy crisis, a frozen IPO market and a sell-off in public tech stocks herald a hard winter for Europe&rsquo;s tech ecosystem. Investment in the continent&rsquo;s startups dropped % from a record $ billion in , but the investors from the sixth annual Midas List Europe are still picking out future winners.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Produced in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Partners, the Midas List Europe is the definitive ranking of the top tech investors in Europe, Israel and the Middle East. This year, Jan Hammer&rsquo;s four-year run at the top of the Midas List Europe has been broken by his Index Ventures colleague Danny Rimer. Hammer&rsquo;s star investment Robinhood has seen its share price slip % since going public in July , along with many other pandemic-era shooting stars, while Rimer&rsquo;s seed investment in design startup Figma blossomed with a $ billion takeover offer from Adobe in September.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Index Ventures now has an unprecedented four partners on the Midas List Europe, including Rimer&rsquo;s brother, Neil, and Martin Mignot. Index&rsquo;s tally is only rivaled by Accel, which counts three partners, led by Philippe Botteri, among Europe&rsquo;s top investors.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">The shakeup in the valuations of public and private tech companies has led to six investors falling off the list while four new entrants have broken through. These include Northzone veteran Michiel Kotting and transatlantic transplant Matt Miller of Sequoia Capital, Ophelia Brown of London&rsquo;s Blossom Capital, and Filip Dames of Berlin&rsquo;s Cherry VC.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">The Midas List Europe is a data-driven list that recognizes startup investors&rsquo; most successful bets, from high-profile IPOs to still-private unicorns. Each year, Forbes and TrueBridge review confidential data submissions for hundreds of investors across dozens of firms to track their performance. The Midas List Europe counts investments in private companies that have raised funding at a valuation of $ million or more or that have gone public or been acquired for at least $ million within the past five years.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">Extra weight is given to realized and more recent returns. Years of carefully collected submissions and publicly available datasets help ensure that each year s list is the most accurate yet.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #ffffff;">See below for who&rsquo;s weathered the storm in the full list, then check out highlights of list newcomers, a full breakdown of the Midas methodology, and a look at companies that drove the year&rsquo;s big movers.</p>