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Norwest Venture Partners
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Norwest Venture Partners is a global venture and growth equity investment firm managing more than $15.5 billion in capital. Founded in 1961, the firm employs a diversified, multi-stage, multi-sector investment strategy — backing early- to late-stage businesses across enterprise, consumer, and healthcare sectors, with a primary focus on North America, India, and Israel. The venture team writes checks of $1M–$30M, while the growth equity team deploys $20M–$200M in established, capital-efficient businesses via minority investments, recapitalizations, buyouts, and special situations. Norwest's approach centers on long-term partnership with visionary founders and CEOs, offering deep operational expertise, an extensive network, and hands-on portfolio services spanning talent, go-to-market, product, and corporate development. As stated by Senior Managing Partner Jeff Crowe: 'Our diversified investment strategy, long-term commitment and collaborative approach allows us to adapt to a wide range of market conditions and support founders and CEOs at every stage of their journey.'
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“For more than six decades, we have been fortunate to partner with an incredible set of companies. Our diversified investment strategy, long-term commitment and collaborative approach allows us to adapt to a wide range of market conditions and support founders and CEOs at every stage of their journey.”
“Our experienced team helps portfolio companies navigate hyper-growth phases and challenging economic environments. The team we've built represents our commitment to finding the next category-defining companies and supporting them with value-creation services and resources as they scale their businesses.”
“As devoted customers, it was apparent to us that Vuori had built versatile products with tremendous energy and soul. This is exactly the type of positive brand experience we search for in our consumer investments, and we look forward to supporting Joe and the team as they continue to bring new products to market and delight their customers.”
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Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gong | Series D | $200m | 2021-01-01 |
| Vuori | Growth Equity | — | 2019-01-01 |
| VAST Data | Series E | $118m | 2023-01-01 |
| Workato | Series E | $200m | 2022-01-01 |
| LlamaIndex | Series A | $19m | 2024-01-01 |
| Rain | Series C | $250m | 2026-01-09 |
| Orion Security | Series A | $32m | 2026-02-03 |
| SetPoint Medical | Series F | $145m | 2023-01-01 |
| Swiggy | IPO | — | 2024-11-01 |
| YipitData | PE Recapitalization | — | 2023-01-01 |
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