Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of Facebook, is ranked No. 59 on the Forbes 2026 World’s Billionaires list with a net worth of $35.9 billion. He lives in Singapore and runs the venture capital firm B Capital.
Eduardo Luiz Saverin was born on March 19, 1982, in São Paulo, Brazil, to a wealthy Jewish-Brazilian family that later moved to Rio de Janeiro. His father, Roberto, was a businessman, and his grandfather founded the children’s clothing chain Tip Top. In 1993 the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Miami.
Net Worth and Rank
- Forbes 2026 list: No. 59, with $35.9 billion
- Later estimate: Wikipedia says Forbes put his wealth at $42.9 billion on September 25, 2026, making him the wealthiest Brazilian and the wealthiest person in Singapore
Harvard and Facebook
Saverin attended Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami and then Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in economics in 2006. As an undergraduate he made $300,000 from oil futures investments. In his junior year he met Mark Zuckerberg, and in 2004 the two launched Facebook, each agreeing to invest $1,000 and later another $18,000. Saverin was the company’s chief financial officer and business manager. See Mark Zuckerberg’s biography.
Citizenship and Dispute
- Singapore: he has lived there since 2009
- 2012: weeks before Facebook’s public offering he renounced his US citizenship; Wikipedia says it has been speculated that this was to save on capital gains tax
- Stake dispute: in May 2012 Business Insider published emails in which Zuckerberg discussed plans to dilute Saverin’s stake
B Capital
Saverin is co-founder and co-CEO, with Raj Ganguly, of the venture capital firm B Capital.
Why It Matters
Saverin’s early stake in Facebook, now Meta, is the foundation of his fortune, and his firm invests in technology companies in Asia and elsewhere.
Net worth figures change daily with share prices. Rankings here follow the Forbes 2026 World’s Billionaires list, with wealth measured on March 1, 2026.
Image: Eduardo Saverin at the CHINICT conference in Beijing, May 25, 2012. Photo: Gravesv38 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
