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Norwest Venture Partners

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Total investments 945
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$33M
Portfolio companies 458
Rounds per year 15.00
Lead investments 205
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.52
Exits 164
Key employees 13
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
  • Health Care
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Anomalo

Information Technology
Software
$33M23 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

CytoVale

Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Machine Learning
$84M15 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Oro Labs

Software
$34M01 Nov 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Guidde

Browser Extensions
Consumer Applications
Information Technology
Knowledge Management
$11M31 Oct 2023 Belmont, California, United States

Diana Health

Health Care
Personal Health
Women's
$34M05 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

RightRev

Finance
Information Technology
Software
$12M11 Jul 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Pair Eyewear

E-Commerce
Eyewear
Fashion
Retail
Wearables
$1M28 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Vertos Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$26M07 Jun 2023 California, United States

Neura Health

Health Care
$8M17 May 2023 New York, New York, United States
News
SlashNext Closes $26M Series B Funding

– SlashNext is a Pleasanton, CA-based AI phishing defense company.
– The company closed a $26m Series B funding.
– Backers included new investors Tom and Matt Gallo, Telia Group, and the ACTIVE Fund of the Ayala group, and early investors Norwest, Wing, and Alter Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to scale customer acquisition and operations domestically and internationally.

Citcon Closes $30M Series C Funding

– Citcon received $30m in Series C financing led by Norwest Venture Partners and Cota Capital.
– The new funding will support the rapid addition of world-class staff and global expansion that builds on the company’s international presence on four continents.
– The company’s annualized payment volume is more than $1 billion, representing 300%+ year-on-year growth.
– Citcon’s global enterprise payments gateway allows merchants to participate in global commerce by enabling secure online or in-store transactions with more than 100 different payment methods, including mobile wallets, local payment schemes, and traditional credit cards — all through one single integration and reconciliation platform.

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Total investments 945
Average round size 33M
Rounds per year 15.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 205
Follow on index 0.52
Exits 164
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Anomalo

Information Technology
Software
$33M23 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

CytoVale

Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Machine Learning
$84M15 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Oro Labs

Software
$34M01 Nov 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Guidde

Browser Extensions
Consumer Applications
Information Technology
Knowledge Management
$11M31 Oct 2023 Belmont, California, United States

Diana Health

Health Care
Personal Health
Women's
$34M05 Oct 2023 New York, New York, United States

RightRev

Finance
Information Technology
Software
$12M11 Jul 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Pair Eyewear

E-Commerce
Eyewear
Fashion
Retail
Wearables
$1M28 Jun 2023 New York, New York, United States

Vertos Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$26M07 Jun 2023 California, United States

Neura Health

Health Care
$8M17 May 2023 New York, New York, United States
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