Norwest Venture Partners

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm founded in 1961 and based in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in early to late-stage investments across a diverse range of sectors, including technology, healthcare, consumer products, and business services. Norwest has invested in over 600 companies and currently partners with more than 140 active firms within its portfolio. The firm focuses on providing capital to companies in the United States, India, and Israel, investing amounts typically ranging from $1 million to $30 million for early-stage companies and $15 million to $100 million for growth equity investments. With a strong emphasis on helping CEOs and founders scale their businesses, Norwest leverages its extensive network and operational expertise to support the companies in which it invests.

Robert Abbott

Partner

Parker Barrile

Partner and Co-Head of Consumer

Lauren Beauchamp

Growth Equity Investor

Beechuk, Scott

Partner

Katie Belding

Partner, Portfolio Services

Betcher CPA, Kurt L.

Administrative Partner

Boyd, Laura E.

Principal, Head of Mergers Acquisitions and Capital Markets

Braun, Yoni

Vice President

Chaudhary, Shiv

Managing Director

de Clercq, Casper L.

General Partner

Nathan Cohen

Vice President

Elaine Dai

Investor

De Dominicis CPA, Matthew W.

Partner and CFO

David Glaser

Investor

John Gu

Principal

Ryan Harris

General Partner

Sean Jacobsohn

Partner

Trey Jennings

Senior Associate

Krish Kapadia

Associate, NVP India

Paul Kigawa

Associate

Nikhil Kookada

Vice President

Jordan Leites

Vice President

Sonia Li

Associate

Brian Matesic

Principal

Scott Mitchell

Vice President

Venkat Mohan

Operating Partner and Board Member

Nahumi, Dror

General Partner

Michelle Nie

Investor

Pike, Connor

Principal, Growth Equity

Prasad, Ankit

Vice President

Irem Rami

Principal, Growth Equity and Venture

Ravi, Ashwin

Associate

Christopher Scullin

Vice President

Rama Sekhar

Partner

Suraj Shah

Vice President

Niren Shah

Managing Director and Head of India, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) India

Chris Sondej

Principal, Growth Equity

Gabe Stauber

Associate

Gary Tang

Senior Associate

Laurie Tennant

Principal, People Advisory

Sanchana Vasikaran

Associate

Jessica Yi

Vice President

Edward Yip

Partner

David Zilberman

General Partner

Dave Zilberman

General Partner

Past deals in TMT

Torch

Series C in 2022
Torch is a leadership development platform that integrates coaching, software, and feedback to enhance the performance of high achievers. Founded by executive coaches and psychologists, Torch aims to empower leaders in creating high-growth, high-performance cultures by fostering the necessary awareness and skills for effective management and leadership. The platform combines human intelligence with digital technology to facilitate talent development and provide measurable outcomes in personalized leadership growth. By delivering a holistic approach to employee development, Torch enables managers to effectively train their teams and cultivate essential leadership skills at scale.

MindTickle

Series E in 2021
MindTickle offers a sales readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use MindTickle's award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching, and role-play with a data-driven approach, MindTickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging MindTickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles. MindTickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, California and Pune, India. Investors include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

Mindful Health Solutions

Venture Round in 2021
Mindful Health Solutions provides psychiatric treatments to people suffering from depression and other mental health issues. Their services include psychotherapy, medication management, transcranial magnetic stimulation, ketamine, ketamine infusion therapy, and electroconvulsive therapy.

Torch

Series B in 2021
Torch is a leadership development platform that integrates coaching, software, and feedback to enhance the performance of high achievers. Founded by executive coaches and psychologists, Torch aims to empower leaders in creating high-growth, high-performance cultures by fostering the necessary awareness and skills for effective management and leadership. The platform combines human intelligence with digital technology to facilitate talent development and provide measurable outcomes in personalized leadership growth. By delivering a holistic approach to employee development, Torch enables managers to effectively train their teams and cultivate essential leadership skills at scale.

MindTickle

Series D in 2020
MindTickle offers a sales readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use MindTickle's award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching, and role-play with a data-driven approach, MindTickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging MindTickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles. MindTickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, California and Pune, India. Investors include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

MindTickle

Series C in 2019
MindTickle offers a sales readiness solution for closing the knowledge and skill gaps found in customer-facing teams. Sales teams across a wide range of industries use MindTickle's award-winning platform to train, coach, and align their sales teams to make reps and their managers more effective. Combining on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile updates, gamification, coaching, and role-play with a data-driven approach, MindTickle accelerates time-to-productivity, ensures consistent execution, and helps boost sales performance. Companies leveraging MindTickle for sales enablement to assess and certify the readiness of each rep see bigger deal sizes, higher win rates, and reduced sales cycles. MindTickle is a global, privately-held company with headquarters in San Francisco, California and Pune, India. Investors include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

Torch

Series A in 2019
Torch is a leadership development platform that integrates coaching, software, and feedback to enhance the performance of high achievers. Founded by executive coaches and psychologists, Torch aims to empower leaders in creating high-growth, high-performance cultures by fostering the necessary awareness and skills for effective management and leadership. The platform combines human intelligence with digital technology to facilitate talent development and provide measurable outcomes in personalized leadership growth. By delivering a holistic approach to employee development, Torch enables managers to effectively train their teams and cultivate essential leadership skills at scale.

Morta Security

Seed Round in 2013
Morta Security is a stealth-mode start-up developing a new paradigm to counter advanced cyber threats. Traditional layered network defense is broken and Morta is poised to turn the tables on advanced attackers. Led by executives and engineers from the National Security Agency, Morta's technology uniquely combats advanced malware. They mix start-up innovation with military-grade technology to solve the world's toughest network security challenges. They’re looking for the best and brightest to join their team and transform cyber security.

M-Factor

Series D in 2009
M-Factor, Inc. develops and delivers Web-based profit and revenue optimization software for consumer goods, retail, and quick serve restaurant sectors in the United States and internationally. It develops a software-as-a-service suite that analyzes, forecasts, and optimizes marketing investments and trade spend. The company’s solutions include M4 Marketing Investment Management, which tracks and optimizes marketing and in-store promotional investments; T4 Trade Spending Effectiveness that reallocates trade spend; and P4 Portfolio Pricing Optimization, which allows users to price regions, channels, and products. M-Factor, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in San Mateo, California.
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