Norwest Venture Partners

NVP Associates, LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in a diverse range of investment stages and sectors. Established in 1961, the firm focuses on seed, startup, early, mid, and late-stage investments in both listed and unlisted companies, with particular emphasis on technology, healthcare, consumer products, and financial services. NVP Associates seeks to invest between $10 million and $150 million, depending on the stage and nature of the investment, often leading or co-investing with other firms. The firm has a global investment strategy, concentrating on markets in the Asia-Pacific region, the United States, India, Israel, and China. Its portfolio spans various industries, including medical devices, information technology, enterprise software, and digital health. NVP Associates aims to support companies with strong growth potential, leveraging its extensive network and operational expertise to foster development and achieve significant returns.

Mohammad Abbas

Investor

Robert Abbott

Partner

Ryan Abdullah

Analyst

Ehi Akhirome

Investor

Bayan Alizadeh

Investor

Gal Amran

Investor

Tiba Aynechi Ph.D

General Partner

Parker Barrile

Partner and Co-Head of Consumer

Lauren Beauchamp

Growth Equity Investor

Scott Beechuk

Partner

Katie Belding

Partner, Portfolio Services

Kurt Betcher

Administrative Partner

Jordan Booker

Investor

Laura E. Boyd

Principal, Head of Mergers Acquisitions and Capital Markets

Yoni Braun

Vice President

Shiv Chaudhary

Managing Director

Priti Youssef Choksi

Partner

Casper De Clercq

General Partner

Nathan Cohen

Vice President

Elaine Dai

Associate

Ran Ding

Partner

Matthew De Dominicis

Partner and CFO

Michael D’Arrigo

Investor

Philip Fleischman

Vice President

David Glaser

Investor

Anubha Goyal

Investor, Norwest India

Ken Graham

Investor

Aidan Greenstein

Investor

Guillermo Grimaldo

Investor

Promod Haque

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Garrett Hardesty

Investor

Ryan Harris

General Partner

Matthew Howard

Managing Partner

Sean Jacobsohn

Partner

Trey Jennings

Senior Associate

Krish Kapadia

Vice President, Norwest India

Paul Kigawa

Investor

Nikhil Kookada

Principal, Norwest India

Parul Laddha

Investor, Norwest India

Jordan Leites

Associate

Sam Lesser

Investor

Sonia Li

Investor

Charles Li

Associate

Brian Matesic

Principal

Cassie McHenry

Investor

JP McKeever

Investor

John McNeil

Investor

Scott Mitchell

Vice President

Venkat Mohan

Operating Partner and Board Member

Dror Nahumi

General Partner

Michelle Nie

Venture Investor

Ginny Pan

Investor

Connor Pike

Vice President

Ankit Prasad

Principal, Norwest India

Irem Rami

Principal, Growth Equity and Venture

Ashwin Ravi

Associate

David Rudnitsky

Principal and CRO Operating Executive, Portfolio Services

Gabrielle Rush

Investor

Samuel Saldarriaga

Investor

Umang Sanghvi

Investor, Norwest India

Christopher Scullin

Principal, Growth and Equity

Suraj Shah

Investor

Niren Shah

Managing Director and Head of Norwest India

Jordan Siegal

Associate

Chris Sondej

Vice President

Gabe Stauber

Vice President

David Su

Partner

Laurie Tennant

Principal, People Advisory

Matthew Uthupan

Investor

Sanchana Vasikaran

Investor

Vidushi Verma

Investor, Norwest India

Kathryn Weinmann

Vice President

Jessica Yi

Vice President of Enterprise Ventures Team and Tech Venture

Edward Yip

Partner

Michael Zarian

Investor

Justin Zhang

Investor

David Zilberman

General Partner

Dave Zilberman

General Partner

Past deals in Navigation and Mapping

Phiar

Series A in 2021
Phiar Technologies, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing an ultra-lightweight Spatial AI Engine designed to enable vehicles to perceive their surroundings in real-time using only commodity mobile-grade processors and a single camera. Phiar's primary focus is on its Intelligent Augmented Reality (AR) Navigation Platform, which aims to enhance the driving experience by providing intuitive routing directions on a 2D map. This application offers real-time road understanding, allowing drivers to follow directions without diverting their attention from the road, thereby improving safety and facilitating the advancement of connected cars and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).

oneNav

Series B in 2021
OneNav is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, co-founded by Stephen Poizner and Paul McBurney in 2019. The company specializes in developing a mobile positioning system tailored for smartphones, wearables, and IoT tracking devices. Utilizing the modernized L5 signaling band from navigation satellite constellations and incorporating artificial intelligence, OneNav's system delivers enhanced, data-rich signals that ensure accurate and reliable tracking applications for its clients.

Phiar

Series A in 2021
Phiar Technologies, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing an ultra-lightweight Spatial AI Engine designed to enable vehicles to perceive their surroundings in real-time using only commodity mobile-grade processors and a single camera. Phiar's primary focus is on its Intelligent Augmented Reality (AR) Navigation Platform, which aims to enhance the driving experience by providing intuitive routing directions on a 2D map. This application offers real-time road understanding, allowing drivers to follow directions without diverting their attention from the road, thereby improving safety and facilitating the advancement of connected cars and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).

Phiar

Seed Round in 2020
Phiar Technologies, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing an ultra-lightweight Spatial AI Engine designed to enable vehicles to perceive their surroundings in real-time using only commodity mobile-grade processors and a single camera. Phiar's primary focus is on its Intelligent Augmented Reality (AR) Navigation Platform, which aims to enhance the driving experience by providing intuitive routing directions on a 2D map. This application offers real-time road understanding, allowing drivers to follow directions without diverting their attention from the road, thereby improving safety and facilitating the advancement of connected cars and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).

oneNav

Series A in 2019
OneNav is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, co-founded by Stephen Poizner and Paul McBurney in 2019. The company specializes in developing a mobile positioning system tailored for smartphones, wearables, and IoT tracking devices. Utilizing the modernized L5 signaling band from navigation satellite constellations and incorporating artificial intelligence, OneNav's system delivers enhanced, data-rich signals that ensure accurate and reliable tracking applications for its clients.

Phiar

Seed Round in 2018
Phiar Technologies, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing an ultra-lightweight Spatial AI Engine designed to enable vehicles to perceive their surroundings in real-time using only commodity mobile-grade processors and a single camera. Phiar's primary focus is on its Intelligent Augmented Reality (AR) Navigation Platform, which aims to enhance the driving experience by providing intuitive routing directions on a 2D map. This application offers real-time road understanding, allowing drivers to follow directions without diverting their attention from the road, thereby improving safety and facilitating the advancement of connected cars and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).

deCarta

Series C in 2008
deCarta is the leading provider of advanced and comprehensive geospatial software platforms for today's cutting-edge Internet, mobile, personal navigation and enterprise location-based service (LBS) applications. deCarta's technology is a crucial link in the LBS value chain as it extends from base map data and content through to the application, service provider and on to the end-user.

KAYAK

Series D in 2007
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

deCarta

Series C in 2007
deCarta is the leading provider of advanced and comprehensive geospatial software platforms for today's cutting-edge Internet, mobile, personal navigation and enterprise location-based service (LBS) applications. deCarta's technology is a crucial link in the LBS value chain as it extends from base map data and content through to the application, service provider and on to the end-user.

deCarta

Series B in 2005
deCarta is the leading provider of advanced and comprehensive geospatial software platforms for today's cutting-edge Internet, mobile, personal navigation and enterprise location-based service (LBS) applications. deCarta's technology is a crucial link in the LBS value chain as it extends from base map data and content through to the application, service provider and on to the end-user.

Telcontar

Series B in 2005
Telcontar is a worldwide provider of total location-based solutions for in-vehicle, Internet and wireless platforms. Using the Telcontar premier spatial software platform, our patented automated user notification technology and carefully chosen industry partners, Telcontar can help its customers provide complete, real-time, highly scalable solutions for navigation, mobile safety, security and convenience. Our customers include Yahoo!, Rand McNally, ATX technologies, Criticom International, Satronics and Hutchison 3G.
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