Norwest Venture Partners

Venture Capital Est. 1961
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USD 7.5B
Estimated FUM
Type
Venture Capital
HQ
Palo Alto, CA, United States
Founded
1961
Focus
Generalist Tech

About

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital and growth equity fund headquartered in Silicon Valley and with subsidiaries in India and Israel. Northwest Venture Partners invests from the seed to late stage and invests across a wide variety of sectors. In Venture, we invest in early-stage venture projects with world-class technologies and entrepreneurs, and later-stage companies with existing customers, strong sales and top tier management and co-investors. For early stage companies with strong growth potential, our general goal is to invest between $10 million and $15 million in each company over time. We sometimes begin with a smaller amount (as little as $1 million to $5 million), and we have the ability to invest as much as $25 million to $30 million. In Growth Equity, we invest in profitable, market-leading companies that demonstrate exceptional growth potential. We take a long-term and flexible approach to partnering with founders and executives in both minority and control investments. Our proven and repeatable research process for finding and evaluating investments allows us to uncover value creation opportunities that others might not see. Our investment size ranges from $20 million to $150 million and we focus on Technology, Information Services, Business Services, Financial Services, Consumer Products/Services and Healthcare.

Investment Focus

Focus Areas
Stages
Growth Seed Series A Series B
Focus
Generalist Tech
Investment Geographies
Primary Markets
United States India Israel
Coverage
Global
Regions
North America Asia Middle East

Coverage is a guide only.

Location

Headquarters
Palo Alto, CA, United States
Office Presence
3 countries
United States India Israel
5 known offices
Palo Alto, CA, United States (HQ)
Mumbai, MH, India
Bengaluru, KA, India
Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel
San Francisco, CA, United States

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