Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital firm in California that focuses on companies that operate in the technology, information services, business services, financial services, consumer products/services, and healthcare sectors. Founded 1961 in Palo Alto, California, United States, it invests in early stage ventures, late stage ventures, private equity, series C, series B, series A, and series D rounds. Its portfolio companies include Wiliot, Udemy,Swiggy, Envisage Technologies, and Aisera. As of February 2020, Norwest Venture Partners has made 652 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 19, 2020 with Envisage Technologies. Norwest Venture Partners has had 138 exits, the most notable of which include Casper, Lending Club, and FireEye. Norwest Venture Partners has raised 12 funds, their latest being Norwest Venture Partners XV. This fund was announced on November 14, 2019 and raised a total of $2B.
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Funded Companies
Fireeye, inc. is a Milpitas, California-based publicly listed network security company
Grove Collaborative is an online, subscription-based retailer selling natural home and health products.
OpenDoor is a San Francisco-based real estate technology company offering virtual and streamlined real estate buying and selling founded in 2014 by Keith Rabois, Eric Wu, JD Ross and Ian Wong.
Company making cultured meat based in San Francisco founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese and Will Clem.
An American global semiconductor and telecommunications company.
MindTickle is a company that has developed software tools for business sales
Plaid is a company providing businesses with tools and access to develop a digital financial system.
Honeybook is a San Francisco-based company founded by Shadiah Sigala, Oz Alon, Naama Alon and Dror Shimoni.
Boost Insurance is a New York-based insurance technology and infrastructure-as-a-service company founded in 2017.
A healthcare technology company offering a platform for organizing healthcare data from multiple systems.
Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 80,000 courses and 24 million students.
Shape Security is a Mountain View, California-based company.
Company for outsourced research through a network of scientific service providers.
A company developing platform that analyzes consumer credit card transactions to help companies understand consumer behavior, performance, and rank against their competitors.
Algorithmia is a company building a marketplace and common API for algorithms.
An information technology services company. It was acquired by Google in 2016 for a reported $625 million.
A venture capital firm in California that focuses on cybersecurity.
Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.
Phiar Technologies is a company that provides a vehicle navigation platform based on the combined technologies of deep learning artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
An insurance technology company offering an online platform for purchasing and comparing insurance.
A logistics company that uses technology to fulfill warehouse orders. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Waltham, Massachusetts.
A software company supplying open-source management software and infrastructure for open-source development teams.
Formerly analyticsMD, Qventus is a company designing and developing artificial intelligence based software platform for hospital operations with the use of real time data analytics.
People
Kurt Betcher
Administrative Partner
Jeff Crowe
Managing Partner
Matthew Howard
General Partner
Promod Haque
Senior Managing Partner
Sonya Brown
General Partner
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Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Aisera
Boost Insurance
Bumblebee Spaces
Envisage Technologies
Ess Kay Fincorp
FloQas
Gong.io
Memphis Meats
Pepperfry
Policygenius