Carl Edwin Berg (born 1938) is an American businessman, real estate investor and venture capitalist.
He has been included in Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest people in America several times,[1] and in March 2013 his net worth was estimated at $1.1 billion.
[3][4] Berg worked as a loan officer in Texas and then moved to California in the 1970s where he took a job running a mortgage company in Sunnyvale.
[2] In California, he partnered with real estate agent, John A. Sobrato, and pooling their owned capital, founded Midtown Realty.
[10] In 1982, Berg's wife and daughter were kidnapped, escaped unharmed, and the perpetrators were caught.