There's no question that between mobile, social, big data and cloud computing, there's a major transformation going on with enterprise tech, all thanks to startups.
That means that many enterprise startups are raking in giant rounds of funding or getting ready to go public.
But as any startup founder will tell you, all venture capitalists are not created equal. And despite the rising popularity of enterprise tech these days, investors that specialize in enterprise are hard to find.
To come up with our list of we looked at factors like past success and experience, recommendations from founders, ranking on Forbes' 2013 Midas Touch list and the stature of the current startups they are backing. Many of these investors also back consumer tech, but they've all got game in enterprise.
Andreessen Horowitz's Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz and well-known in the tech world. He also writes one of the must-read blogs in the industry.
Last year, one of the companies he backed, Nicira, sold to VMware for $1.26 billion, a huge exit for a company that making less than $100 million a year.
He's currently backing enterprise companies like Asana, Capriza, Jawbone, GoodData, Okta, SnapLogic and Tidemark.
He and Marc Andreessen cofounded Opsware, acquired by HP in 2007. Before that, he helped establish the e-commerce industry, running AOL's first e-commerce platform.
Greylock's Aneel Bhusri
Aneel Bhusri is unique in the enterprise world: He's both an A-list investor and a cofounder who just took his super hot enterprise company, WorkDay, public (2012's biggest enterprise IPO).
Although he's technically a part-time partner at Greylock Ventures, he's backing a long list of hot enterprise startups including Cloudera, Okta, Pure Storage, Tidemark, Zuora.
He previously backed ServiceNow (a big IPO last year), PolyServe (sold to Hewlett-Packard for $200 million), OutlookSoft (acquired by SAP) and Data Domain (IPO).
Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla
The word "legendary" always seems to proceed Vinod Khosla's name these days and for good reason: he's been building and backing successful companies since the 1980's.
He was the cofounder of Sun Microsystems and became a VC in 1986 at Kleiner Perkins. In 2004, an interest in experimental tech lead him to start Khosla Ventures.
But he still backs plenty of enterprise companies too, such as software-defined networking startup, Contrail (bought by Juniper in 2012 for $176 million), Xsigo Systems (bought by Oracle).
Other companies in Khosla Ventures' portfolio include Big Switch Networks and Nirvanix.
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