Norwest Venture Partners

Norwest Venture Partners, established in 1961, is a global venture capital and growth equity firm based in Palo Alto, California. With nearly $5 billion under management, the firm invests in early to late-stage companies across various sectors, including technology, business services, financial services, consumer products, and healthcare. Norwest focuses on providing capital and operational support to help CEOs and founders scale their businesses, with typical investments ranging from $10 million to $50 million, and sometimes up to $100 million for growth equity companies. The firm has invested in over 600 companies and currently partners with over 140 active companies across its portfolio.

Mohammad Abbas

Investor

Robert Abbott

Partner

Bayan Alizadeh

Investor

Gal Amran

Investor

Lauren Beauchamp

Vice President

Scott Beechuk

Partner

Katie Belding

Partner, Portfolio Services

Kurt Betcher

Administrative Partner, Portfolio Services

Jordan Booker

Investor

Laura Boyd

Principal, Head of Mergers Acquisitions and Capital Markets

Yoni Braun

Vice President

Shiv Chaudhary

Managing Director, Norwest India

Priti Youssef Choksi

Partner

Casper De Clercq

General Partner

Nathan Cohen

Vice President

Ran Ding

Partner

Matthew De Dominicis

Administrative Partner and CFO

Philip Fleischman

Vice President

David Glaser

Investor

Anubha Goyal

Investor, Norwest India

Ken Graham

Investor

Aidan Greenstein

Investor

Guillermo Grimaldo

Investor

Garrett Hardesty

Investor

Ryan Harris

General Partner

Sean Jacobsohn

Partner

Trey Jennings

Senior Associate

Krish Kapadia

Vice President

Sameer Kapur

Vice President, Growth Equity

Paul Kigawa

Investor

Nikhil Kookada

Vice President

Parul Laddha

Investor, Norwest India

Jordan Leites

Vice President

Sam Lesser

Investor

Sonia Li

Associate

Brian Matesic

Principal

Cassie McHenry

Investor

JP McKeever

Investor

John McNeil

Investor

Ryan McDonald

Principal - Healthcare

Scott Mitchell

Principal

Venkat Mohan

Operating Partner and Board Member

Brian Moon

Senior Associate

Dror Nahumi

General Partner

Michelle Nie

Investor

Ginny Pan

Investor

Connor Pike

Principal, Growth Equity

Ankit Prasad

Vice President

Irem Rami

Principal, Growth Equity and Venture

Ashwin Ravi

Associate

Gabrielle Rush

Investor

Samuel Saldarriaga

Investor

Umang Sanghvi

Investor, Norwest India

Christopher Scullin

Vice President

Rama Sekhar

Partner

Suraj Shah

Vice President

Niren Shah

Managing Director and Head of Norwest India

Chris Sondej

Principal, Growth Equity

Gabe Stauber

Associate

Laurie Tennant

Principal, People Advisory

Matthew Uthupan

Investor

Sanchana Vasikaran

Investor

Vidushi Verma

Investor, Norwest India

Lisa Wu

Partner

Jessica Yi

Vice President

Edward Yip

Partner

Michael Zarian

Investor

Justin Zhang

Investor

David Zilberman

General Partner

Dave Zilberman

General Partner

Past deals in Navigation and Mapping

oneNav

Series C in 2023
OneNav specializes in developing a mobile positioning system tailored for smartphones, wearables, and Internet of Things (IoT) tracking devices. The company's innovative system leverages the modernized L5 signaling band from navigation satellite constellations, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of position data. By incorporating artificial intelligence, OneNav provides clients with upgraded, data-rich signals that support various tracking applications, ensuring precise location services across multiple platforms.

Phiar

Series A in 2021
Phiar Technologies, a Boston-based company established in 2017, specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions for vehicles. Its core product is an ultra-lightweight spatial AI engine, designed to enable vehicles to perceive their surroundings in real-time using just a single camera and commodity mobile-grade processors. Phiar's initial focus is powering its Intelligent AR Navigation Platform, which provides drivers with safe and intuitive routing directions without requiring them to look away from the road.

oneNav

Series B in 2021
OneNav specializes in developing a mobile positioning system tailored for smartphones, wearables, and Internet of Things (IoT) tracking devices. The company's innovative system leverages the modernized L5 signaling band from navigation satellite constellations, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of position data. By incorporating artificial intelligence, OneNav provides clients with upgraded, data-rich signals that support various tracking applications, ensuring precise location services across multiple platforms.

oneNav

Series A in 2019
OneNav specializes in developing a mobile positioning system tailored for smartphones, wearables, and Internet of Things (IoT) tracking devices. The company's innovative system leverages the modernized L5 signaling band from navigation satellite constellations, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of position data. By incorporating artificial intelligence, OneNav provides clients with upgraded, data-rich signals that support various tracking applications, ensuring precise location services across multiple platforms.

Phiar

Seed Round in 2018
Phiar Technologies, a Boston-based company established in 2017, specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions for vehicles. Its core product is an ultra-lightweight spatial AI engine, designed to enable vehicles to perceive their surroundings in real-time using just a single camera and commodity mobile-grade processors. Phiar's initial focus is powering its Intelligent AR Navigation Platform, which provides drivers with safe and intuitive routing directions without requiring them to look away from the road.

deCarta

Series C in 2008
deCarta, Inc. is a provider of advanced geospatial software platforms specializing in location-based services. The company offers a range of technologies for online mapping, routing, navigation, geocoding, local searching, and geo-data integration. Its product suite includes a geospatial platform, a local search engine, client application programming interfaces, and turn-by-turn navigation solutions, which can be deployed as licensed software or through a hosted Platform-as-a-Service model. deCarta serves various markets including mobile, internet, enterprise fleet management, and automotive sectors, leveraging a network of distributors across multiple regions, including Europe, North America, Africa, South America, and Asia. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, California, deCarta also has offices in Germany, China, Brazil, and South Africa, along with cloud-based service centers globally. The company operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc. after its acquisition in 2015.

deCarta

Series C in 2007
deCarta, Inc. is a provider of advanced geospatial software platforms specializing in location-based services. The company offers a range of technologies for online mapping, routing, navigation, geocoding, local searching, and geo-data integration. Its product suite includes a geospatial platform, a local search engine, client application programming interfaces, and turn-by-turn navigation solutions, which can be deployed as licensed software or through a hosted Platform-as-a-Service model. deCarta serves various markets including mobile, internet, enterprise fleet management, and automotive sectors, leveraging a network of distributors across multiple regions, including Europe, North America, Africa, South America, and Asia. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, California, deCarta also has offices in Germany, China, Brazil, and South Africa, along with cloud-based service centers globally. The company operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc. after its acquisition in 2015.

deCarta

Series B in 2005
deCarta, Inc. is a provider of advanced geospatial software platforms specializing in location-based services. The company offers a range of technologies for online mapping, routing, navigation, geocoding, local searching, and geo-data integration. Its product suite includes a geospatial platform, a local search engine, client application programming interfaces, and turn-by-turn navigation solutions, which can be deployed as licensed software or through a hosted Platform-as-a-Service model. deCarta serves various markets including mobile, internet, enterprise fleet management, and automotive sectors, leveraging a network of distributors across multiple regions, including Europe, North America, Africa, South America, and Asia. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, California, deCarta also has offices in Germany, China, Brazil, and South Africa, along with cloud-based service centers globally. The company operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc. after its acquisition in 2015.

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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