Norwest Venture Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

961

Average round size

33M

Portfolio companies

465

Rounds per year

15.25

Lead investments

210

Follow on index

0.52

Exits

164

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Norwest Venture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1961. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Norwest Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Spark Capital, Slow Ventures, Greylock Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shlomo Kramer, Sequoia Capital India, Sapphire Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tenaya Capital, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), DCM Ventures.

We also calculated 26 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lending Club, Rackspace, Jet.com Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Norwest Venture Partners performs on 8 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from Norwest Venture Partners the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailFintechHealthcareBiotech/Life Sciences
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
IndiaIsraelUnited States
Check size
1M — 30M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 3000000000
Fund raised date
2024-04-25

Analytics

Total investments
961
Lead investments
210
Exits
164
Rounds per year
15.25
Follow on index
0.52
Investments by industry
  • Software (316)
  • Information Technology (158)
  • Enterprise Software (133)
  • SaaS (131)
  • Health Care (127)
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Investments by region
  • United States (793)
  • India (104)
  • Israel (16)
  • Canada (7)
  • China (5)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
32
Number of Decacorns
35
Number of Minotaurs
7

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
335M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.96
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Amplication 09 Feb 2022 Seed 6M Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Anomalo 23 Jan 2024 Software, Information Technology Early Stage Venture 33M United States, California, San Francisco

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