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 Virtualization

Amplication

Seed Round in 2022
Amplication is an open-source development tool designed to streamline application development for professional developers by eliminating repetitive coding tasks. The platform generates production-ready, self-documenting GraphQL APIs for various data models while providing a role-based permission model. This feature allows developers to create multiple roles and set granular permissions for different data models or specific fields, enhancing the security and flexibility of software applications. Amplication aims to foster an ecosystem that empowers developers with the ability to fork and maintain the platform independently, ensuring transparency and collaboration within the open-source community. The company's vision is to evolve low-code application development into a modern programming language, facilitating the creation of business applications with greater efficiency.

VAST Data

Series D in 2021
VAST Data, Inc. is a New York-based company specializing in data storage solutions designed to simplify and enhance data management for various demanding applications. Founded in 2016, VAST offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel's Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs, effectively eliminating the need for complex storage tiering and traditional hard disk drives. The company's all-flash storage system consolidates multiple applications, catering to sectors such as animation, deep learning, enterprise backup recovery, life sciences, and quantitative trading. By redefining the economics of flash infrastructure, VAST makes it feasible for organizations to store all their data on flash, thereby improving performance and operational efficiency. With an emphasis on scalability and productivity, VAST Data accelerates time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, enabling businesses to leverage advanced analytics more effectively.

VAST Data

Series C in 2020
VAST Data, Inc. is a New York-based company specializing in data storage solutions designed to simplify and enhance data management for various demanding applications. Founded in 2016, VAST offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel's Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs, effectively eliminating the need for complex storage tiering and traditional hard disk drives. The company's all-flash storage system consolidates multiple applications, catering to sectors such as animation, deep learning, enterprise backup recovery, life sciences, and quantitative trading. By redefining the economics of flash infrastructure, VAST makes it feasible for organizations to store all their data on flash, thereby improving performance and operational efficiency. With an emphasis on scalability and productivity, VAST Data accelerates time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, enabling businesses to leverage advanced analytics more effectively.

Fungible

Series C in 2019
Fungible, Inc. is a technology company that develops hardware and software solutions specifically for cloud data centers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Fungible aims to enhance data movement through its innovative chip technology, which is characterized by low latency, high throughput, and programmability. The company's offerings include a full-stack infrastructure software that leverages standard components, protocols, and interfaces, focusing on improving the economics, security, and reliability of cloud data centers. With a team that has extensive experience in networking, silicon, and software industries, Fungible is positioned to address the evolving requirements of modern cloud infrastructure.

VAST Data

Series B in 2019
VAST Data, Inc. is a New York-based company specializing in data storage solutions designed to simplify and enhance data management for various demanding applications. Founded in 2016, VAST offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel's Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs, effectively eliminating the need for complex storage tiering and traditional hard disk drives. The company's all-flash storage system consolidates multiple applications, catering to sectors such as animation, deep learning, enterprise backup recovery, life sciences, and quantitative trading. By redefining the economics of flash infrastructure, VAST makes it feasible for organizations to store all their data on flash, thereby improving performance and operational efficiency. With an emphasis on scalability and productivity, VAST Data accelerates time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, enabling businesses to leverage advanced analytics more effectively.

VAST Data

Series A in 2018
VAST Data, Inc. is a New York-based company specializing in data storage solutions designed to simplify and enhance data management for various demanding applications. Founded in 2016, VAST offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel's Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs, effectively eliminating the need for complex storage tiering and traditional hard disk drives. The company's all-flash storage system consolidates multiple applications, catering to sectors such as animation, deep learning, enterprise backup recovery, life sciences, and quantitative trading. By redefining the economics of flash infrastructure, VAST makes it feasible for organizations to store all their data on flash, thereby improving performance and operational efficiency. With an emphasis on scalability and productivity, VAST Data accelerates time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, enabling businesses to leverage advanced analytics more effectively.

Velostrata

Series B in 2016
Velostrata Ltd. is a company based in Netanya, Israel, that specializes in cloud migration and workload mobility software. Founded in 2014, Velostrata's platform enables enterprises to migrate their applications and data to public cloud environments quickly and efficiently. The software facilitates the creation of dynamic, multi-vendor hybrid clouds, allowing IT managers to move workloads between on-premises data centers and public clouds in a matter of minutes. This capability enhances operational flexibility, enabling organizations to utilize public cloud resources for various purposes, including on-demand capacity, accelerated development and testing, and comprehensive migrations. Velostrata's solutions aim to streamline the cloud migration process, ensuring scalability, simplicity, and safety for enterprise applications.

VAST Data

Series A in 2016
VAST Data, Inc. is a New York-based company specializing in data storage solutions designed to simplify and enhance data management for various demanding applications. Founded in 2016, VAST offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel's Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs, effectively eliminating the need for complex storage tiering and traditional hard disk drives. The company's all-flash storage system consolidates multiple applications, catering to sectors such as animation, deep learning, enterprise backup recovery, life sciences, and quantitative trading. By redefining the economics of flash infrastructure, VAST makes it feasible for organizations to store all their data on flash, thereby improving performance and operational efficiency. With an emphasis on scalability and productivity, VAST Data accelerates time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, enabling businesses to leverage advanced analytics more effectively.

Bracket Computing

Series C in 2015
Bracket Computing Inc. develops advanced workload isolation software aimed at enhancing security for enterprises operating in hybrid cloud environments. Founded in 2011 and based in Mountain View, California, the company provides a platform that features crypto-enforced micro-segmentation, ensuring that data is always encrypted both at rest and in motion. Users maintain control over encryption keys while benefiting from data integrity monitoring and forensic capabilities that capture memory at the moment of a breach. Bracket Computing's solutions are designed to prevent the spread of malware and insider threats without compromising the efficiency and agility of cloud operations, thereby safeguarding enterprise systems from external attacks.

Velostrata

Series A in 2015
Velostrata Ltd. is a company based in Netanya, Israel, that specializes in cloud migration and workload mobility software. Founded in 2014, Velostrata's platform enables enterprises to migrate their applications and data to public cloud environments quickly and efficiently. The software facilitates the creation of dynamic, multi-vendor hybrid clouds, allowing IT managers to move workloads between on-premises data centers and public clouds in a matter of minutes. This capability enhances operational flexibility, enabling organizations to utilize public cloud resources for various purposes, including on-demand capacity, accelerated development and testing, and comprehensive migrations. Velostrata's solutions aim to streamline the cloud migration process, ensuring scalability, simplicity, and safety for enterprise applications.

Ravello Systems

Series C in 2015
Ravello Systems Inc. specializes in cloud-based virtualization software solutions, enabling enterprises to encapsulate and run multi-VM applications seamlessly across on-premise and cloud environments. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company offers a range of services, including the ability to develop and test VMware/KVM applications with complex networking in major public clouds such as AWS and Google Cloud. It provides virtual training for deploying multi-VM application environments, on-demand OpenStack labs for various purposes, and VMware ESXi lab environments for demos and testing. Ravello Systems is recognized as the first provider of a Cloud Application Hypervisor, allowing users to leverage the public cloud's resources effectively. As of March 2016, Ravello operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and has received backing from prominent venture capital firms.

Bracket Computing

Series B in 2014
Bracket Computing Inc. develops advanced workload isolation software aimed at enhancing security for enterprises operating in hybrid cloud environments. Founded in 2011 and based in Mountain View, California, the company provides a platform that features crypto-enforced micro-segmentation, ensuring that data is always encrypted both at rest and in motion. Users maintain control over encryption keys while benefiting from data integrity monitoring and forensic capabilities that capture memory at the moment of a breach. Bracket Computing's solutions are designed to prevent the spread of malware and insider threats without compromising the efficiency and agility of cloud operations, thereby safeguarding enterprise systems from external attacks.

ScaleIO

Series A in 2012
ScaleIO specializes in elastic converged storage technology designed for enterprise data management, particularly in multi-tenant cloud environments. Founded in 2011 by industry veterans, the company offers its flagship product, ECS, which allows data centers to significantly reduce storage costs and enhance operational efficiency by integrating storage into compute resources. This technology enables linear scaling of capacity and performance across thousands of servers, making it suitable for large data centers in the United States and Europe. Supported by leading venture capital firms, ScaleIO aims to transform enterprise data storage by providing a more cost-effective and streamlined approach.

Ravello Systems

Series B in 2012
Ravello Systems Inc. specializes in cloud-based virtualization software solutions, enabling enterprises to encapsulate and run multi-VM applications seamlessly across on-premise and cloud environments. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company offers a range of services, including the ability to develop and test VMware/KVM applications with complex networking in major public clouds such as AWS and Google Cloud. It provides virtual training for deploying multi-VM application environments, on-demand OpenStack labs for various purposes, and VMware ESXi lab environments for demos and testing. Ravello Systems is recognized as the first provider of a Cloud Application Hypervisor, allowing users to leverage the public cloud's resources effectively. As of March 2016, Ravello operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and has received backing from prominent venture capital firms.

Ravello Systems

Series A in 2011
Ravello Systems Inc. specializes in cloud-based virtualization software solutions, enabling enterprises to encapsulate and run multi-VM applications seamlessly across on-premise and cloud environments. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company offers a range of services, including the ability to develop and test VMware/KVM applications with complex networking in major public clouds such as AWS and Google Cloud. It provides virtual training for deploying multi-VM application environments, on-demand OpenStack labs for various purposes, and VMware ESXi lab environments for demos and testing. Ravello Systems is recognized as the first provider of a Cloud Application Hypervisor, allowing users to leverage the public cloud's resources effectively. As of March 2016, Ravello operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and has received backing from prominent venture capital firms.

ConteXtream

Series B in 2010
ConteXtream is a privately held software company delivering the industry’s first cloud-based network virtualization framework that enables network operators to leverage the power of proven virtualization and grid technologies to extract more value and profitability from their broadband networks. The ConteXtream Service Delivery Grid delivers higher network performance at a lower cost per subscriber while enabling operators to customize applications on a per-session, per- subscriber basis for a unique, highly personalized subscriber experience. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., ConteXtream is backed by leading Silicon Valley and global investors including Benhamou Global Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds, Norwest Venture Partners and Sofinnova Ventures as well as Comcast Interactive Capital and Verizon Investments.

Unisfair

Venture Round in 2009
Unisfair specializes in providing virtual environments for businesses, offering solutions for virtual events, trade shows, conferences, and job fairs. Its platform enables companies to engage effectively with customers, partners, and employees. Notable clients include IBM, Intuit, ADP, EMC, and Novartis, who utilize Unisfair's technology for online marketing and lead generation. The company's offerings include tools like Position Manager, which allows employers to manage job postings within virtual booths or job centers. Unisfair has been recognized for its innovative approach to virtual engagement and was acquired by West Corp in March 2011, following investments from Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners.

Unisfair

Venture Round in 2008
Unisfair specializes in providing virtual environments for businesses, offering solutions for virtual events, trade shows, conferences, and job fairs. Its platform enables companies to engage effectively with customers, partners, and employees. Notable clients include IBM, Intuit, ADP, EMC, and Novartis, who utilize Unisfair's technology for online marketing and lead generation. The company's offerings include tools like Position Manager, which allows employers to manage job postings within virtual booths or job centers. Unisfair has been recognized for its innovative approach to virtual engagement and was acquired by West Corp in March 2011, following investments from Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners.

ConteXtream

Series A in 2007
ConteXtream is a privately held software company delivering the industry’s first cloud-based network virtualization framework that enables network operators to leverage the power of proven virtualization and grid technologies to extract more value and profitability from their broadband networks. The ConteXtream Service Delivery Grid delivers higher network performance at a lower cost per subscriber while enabling operators to customize applications on a per-session, per- subscriber basis for a unique, highly personalized subscriber experience. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., ConteXtream is backed by leading Silicon Valley and global investors including Benhamou Global Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds, Norwest Venture Partners and Sofinnova Ventures as well as Comcast Interactive Capital and Verizon Investments.

NTT Global Networks

Series D in 2005
NTT Global Networks, through its Virtela division, offers an innovative alternative to traditional global carriers and equipment vendors for enterprise networking and virtualized IT services. The company utilizes its Virtualized Overlay Network and Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud platform to facilitate the transition of branch office networking and security services to the cloud. This approach allows enterprises to benefit from software-defined networking, resulting in significant cost savings, including up to 80% in initial capital expenditures and 30% in ongoing operational costs. NTT Global Networks provides a comprehensive suite of services, including global managed network, security, mobility, application acceleration, and IT infrastructure services, positioning itself as a flexible and efficient choice for modern enterprises.

NTT Global Networks

Series C in 2003
NTT Global Networks, through its Virtela division, offers an innovative alternative to traditional global carriers and equipment vendors for enterprise networking and virtualized IT services. The company utilizes its Virtualized Overlay Network and Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud platform to facilitate the transition of branch office networking and security services to the cloud. This approach allows enterprises to benefit from software-defined networking, resulting in significant cost savings, including up to 80% in initial capital expenditures and 30% in ongoing operational costs. NTT Global Networks provides a comprehensive suite of services, including global managed network, security, mobility, application acceleration, and IT infrastructure services, positioning itself as a flexible and efficient choice for modern enterprises.

NTT Global Networks

Series B in 2001
NTT Global Networks, through its Virtela division, offers an innovative alternative to traditional global carriers and equipment vendors for enterprise networking and virtualized IT services. The company utilizes its Virtualized Overlay Network and Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud platform to facilitate the transition of branch office networking and security services to the cloud. This approach allows enterprises to benefit from software-defined networking, resulting in significant cost savings, including up to 80% in initial capital expenditures and 30% in ongoing operational costs. NTT Global Networks provides a comprehensive suite of services, including global managed network, security, mobility, application acceleration, and IT infrastructure services, positioning itself as a flexible and efficient choice for modern enterprises.
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