Norwest Venture Partners

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm founded in 1961 and based in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in early to late-stage investments across a diverse range of sectors, including technology, healthcare, consumer products, and business services. Norwest has invested in over 600 companies and currently partners with more than 140 active firms within its portfolio. The firm focuses on providing capital to companies in the United States, India, and Israel, investing amounts typically ranging from $1 million to $30 million for early-stage companies and $15 million to $100 million for growth equity investments. With a strong emphasis on helping CEOs and founders scale their businesses, Norwest leverages its extensive network and operational expertise to support the companies in which it invests.

Robert Abbott

Partner

Ehi Akhirome Ph.D

Investor

Robert Arditi

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

Laura Boyd

Principal, Head of Mergers Acquisitions and Capital Markets

Yoni Braun

Vice President

Sonya Brown

General Partner and Co-Head of Growth Equity

Sohil Chand

Founder and Managing Director

Shiv Chaudhary

Managing Director

Casper De Clercq

General Partner

Nathan Cohen

Vice President

Jeff Crowe

Co-Founder and Senior Managing Partner

Elaine Dai

Investor

Matthew De Dominicis

Partner and CFO

David Glaser

Investor

John Gu

Principal

Sean Jacobsohn

Partner

Trey Jennings

Senior Associate

Krish Kapadia

Associate, NVP India

Sameer Kapur

Vice President, Growth Equity

Paul Kigawa

Associate

Nikhil Kookada

Vice President

Jon Kossow

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Jordan Leites

Vice President

Sonia Li

Associate

Brian Matesic

Principal

Ryan McDonald

Principal - Healthcare

Scott Mitchell

Vice President

Venkat Mohan

Operating Partner and Board Member

Dror Nahumi

General Partner

Michelle Nie

Investor

Connor Pike

Principal, Growth Equity

Ankit Prasad

Vice President

Irem Rami

Principal, Growth Equity and Venture

Ashwin Ravi

Associate

Christopher Scullin

Vice President

Rama Sekhar

Partner

Suraj Shah

Vice President

Niren Shah

Managing Director and Head of India, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) India

Chris Sondej

Principal, Growth Equity

Gabe Stauber

Associate

Gary Tang

Senior Associate

Laurie Tennant

Principal, People Advisory

Sanchana Vasikaran

Associate

Jessica Yi

Vice President

Edward Yip

Partner

David Zilberman

General Partner

Dave Zilberman

General Partner

Ran Ding

Partner

Priti Youssef Choksi

Partner

Past deals in Sales Automation

Spiff

Series C in 2023
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

Lavender

Series A in 2023
Lavender is a software application that provides an AI-driven email assistant designed to enhance the writing of sales emails. The platform offers features such as AI recommendations, reply optimization, and tools for integrating gifs, checking spelling and grammar, assessing spam potential, analyzing subject lines, and conducting prospect and company research. These capabilities enable sales professionals to craft more effective and impactful business emails.

Qualified

Series C in 2022
Qualified is the pipeline generation platform for revenue teams that utilize Salesforce to expand their pipeline. They do this by using their most valuable sales and marketing resource, the corporate website, to find the most valuable buyers, find buyer intent signals, and initiate sales talk right away. In order to detect account-based buyer intent and enable real-time sales discussions, Qualified, which is based on Salesforce, links the website with Salesforce data.

Prodly

Series A in 2021
Prodly helps companies build and continuously improve business applications faster, more reliably, and more frequently. Prodly’s AppOps platform automates the full lifecycle of low-code development, empowers more non-developers to configure applications, removes bottlenecks in the development process, and provides IT governance to mitigate risk of agile development. Customers like Nutanix, Johnson & Johnson, Splunk, Tableau, and Verizon use Prodly AppOps to update mission critical applications such as Salesforce CPQ, Salesforce Billing, Field Service Lightning, and Salesforce B2B Commerce at the speed of business. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with global operations. For more information, visit prodly.co.

MindTickle

Series E in 2021
MindTickle is a privately-held company that provides a data-driven sales readiness platform aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of customer-facing teams. With its headquarters in San Francisco and Pune, the platform is utilized by sales teams across various industries to address knowledge and skill gaps through automated training paths, adaptive learning, and virtual coaching tools. MindTickle's solution incorporates gamification and role-play elements, facilitating on-demand training and mobile updates. This comprehensive approach helps organizations assess and certify the readiness of their sales representatives, leading to improved deal sizes, higher win rates, and shorter sales cycles. Investors in MindTickle include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

Spiff

Series B in 2021
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

Qualified

Series B in 2021
Qualified is the pipeline generation platform for revenue teams that utilize Salesforce to expand their pipeline. They do this by using their most valuable sales and marketing resource, the corporate website, to find the most valuable buyers, find buyer intent signals, and initiate sales talk right away. In order to detect account-based buyer intent and enable real-time sales discussions, Qualified, which is based on Salesforce, links the website with Salesforce data.

MindTickle

Series D in 2020
MindTickle is a privately-held company that provides a data-driven sales readiness platform aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of customer-facing teams. With its headquarters in San Francisco and Pune, the platform is utilized by sales teams across various industries to address knowledge and skill gaps through automated training paths, adaptive learning, and virtual coaching tools. MindTickle's solution incorporates gamification and role-play elements, facilitating on-demand training and mobile updates. This comprehensive approach helps organizations assess and certify the readiness of their sales representatives, leading to improved deal sizes, higher win rates, and shorter sales cycles. Investors in MindTickle include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

Omni

Seed Round in 2020
Omni is the fastest way for customer success, support, and sales teams to find the up-to-date answer to a customer’s question. When a sales or support rep is talking to a customer in a tool like Salesforce and can't figure out an answer, Omni will search across any tool they own instantly and will automatically confirm that the answer they find is up-to-date.

Gong

Series D in 2020
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

Qualified

Series A in 2020
Qualified is the pipeline generation platform for revenue teams that utilize Salesforce to expand their pipeline. They do this by using their most valuable sales and marketing resource, the corporate website, to find the most valuable buyers, find buyer intent signals, and initiate sales talk right away. In order to detect account-based buyer intent and enable real-time sales discussions, Qualified, which is based on Salesforce, links the website with Salesforce data.

Spiff

Series A in 2020
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

Prodly

Seed Round in 2020
Prodly helps companies build and continuously improve business applications faster, more reliably, and more frequently. Prodly’s AppOps platform automates the full lifecycle of low-code development, empowers more non-developers to configure applications, removes bottlenecks in the development process, and provides IT governance to mitigate risk of agile development. Customers like Nutanix, Johnson & Johnson, Splunk, Tableau, and Verizon use Prodly AppOps to update mission critical applications such as Salesforce CPQ, Salesforce Billing, Field Service Lightning, and Salesforce B2B Commerce at the speed of business. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with global operations. For more information, visit prodly.co.

Gong

Series C in 2019
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

Workato

Series C in 2019
Workato, Inc. is a provider of a cloud automation and integration platform tailored for enterprises, facilitating workflow automation across various applications. Founded in 2013 and based in Cupertino, California, the platform enables businesses to integrate their apps and automate complex workflows with a focus on security and governance. Workato offers features such as pre-built, configurable recipes for rapid deployment, reusable integrations, and iterative development capabilities. The platform enhances sales efficiency by automating customer intelligence, opportunity data management, and order fulfillment processes. Additionally, it supports customer service automation to improve the customer experience, manage account relationships, and predict churn risks. Workato also streamlines financial operations by automating billing and payment processes, while executing targeted marketing campaigns through real-time data integration and customer engagement strategies. By breaking down application silos, Workato empowers organizations to optimize their business operations and drive real-time outcomes from their activities.

Prodly

Seed Round in 2019
Prodly helps companies build and continuously improve business applications faster, more reliably, and more frequently. Prodly’s AppOps platform automates the full lifecycle of low-code development, empowers more non-developers to configure applications, removes bottlenecks in the development process, and provides IT governance to mitigate risk of agile development. Customers like Nutanix, Johnson & Johnson, Splunk, Tableau, and Verizon use Prodly AppOps to update mission critical applications such as Salesforce CPQ, Salesforce Billing, Field Service Lightning, and Salesforce B2B Commerce at the speed of business. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with global operations. For more information, visit prodly.co.

MindTickle

Series C in 2019
MindTickle is a privately-held company that provides a data-driven sales readiness platform aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of customer-facing teams. With its headquarters in San Francisco and Pune, the platform is utilized by sales teams across various industries to address knowledge and skill gaps through automated training paths, adaptive learning, and virtual coaching tools. MindTickle's solution incorporates gamification and role-play elements, facilitating on-demand training and mobile updates. This comprehensive approach helps organizations assess and certify the readiness of their sales representatives, leading to improved deal sizes, higher win rates, and shorter sales cycles. Investors in MindTickle include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

Copper

Series C in 2019
Copper is an AI-first CRM that eliminates data entry, automates sales processes and optimizes the entire customer journey to grow sales. Investors include Norwest Venture Partners (Promod Haque, Midas List Hall of Fame Investor), True Ventures (Phil Black, Co-Founder), GV (Formerly Google Ventures), Texas Pacific Group, Bloomberg Beta, Investment Group of Santa Barbara, Next World Capital, Brad Jones (Redpoint Ventures), Industry Ventures, Crunchfund and Danhua Capital.

Opendoor Technologies

Series E in 2019
Opendoor operates a digital platform that simplifies the residential real estate market by facilitating the buying and selling of homes online. The company allows sellers to receive offers without the need to list or show their properties, thereby streamlining the selling process. Buyers can explore available homes and access them instantly through the company's application, enhancing the home-buying experience. Opendoor generates revenue primarily through home sales, alongside additional income from various real estate services, making it a comprehensive solution for those looking to navigate the real estate market efficiently.

Gong

Series B in 2019
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

Opendoor Technologies

Series E in 2018
Opendoor operates a digital platform that simplifies the residential real estate market by facilitating the buying and selling of homes online. The company allows sellers to receive offers without the need to list or show their properties, thereby streamlining the selling process. Buyers can explore available homes and access them instantly through the company's application, enhancing the home-buying experience. Opendoor generates revenue primarily through home sales, alongside additional income from various real estate services, making it a comprehensive solution for those looking to navigate the real estate market efficiently.

Copper

Series C in 2017
Copper is an AI-first CRM that eliminates data entry, automates sales processes and optimizes the entire customer journey to grow sales. Investors include Norwest Venture Partners (Promod Haque, Midas List Hall of Fame Investor), True Ventures (Phil Black, Co-Founder), GV (Formerly Google Ventures), Texas Pacific Group, Bloomberg Beta, Investment Group of Santa Barbara, Next World Capital, Brad Jones (Redpoint Ventures), Industry Ventures, Crunchfund and Danhua Capital.

Gong

Series A in 2017
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

Opendoor Technologies

Series D in 2016
Opendoor operates a digital platform that simplifies the residential real estate market by facilitating the buying and selling of homes online. The company allows sellers to receive offers without the need to list or show their properties, thereby streamlining the selling process. Buyers can explore available homes and access them instantly through the company's application, enhancing the home-buying experience. Opendoor generates revenue primarily through home sales, alongside additional income from various real estate services, making it a comprehensive solution for those looking to navigate the real estate market efficiently.

Engagio

Series B in 2016
Engagio Inc. is a provider of an account-based platform focused on account-centric analytics, designed to enhance relationships with high-value accounts. The company offers several solutions, including PlayMaker, a SaaS product that facilitates human connections across various communication channels and departments to generate revenue opportunities. Additionally, Engagio provides Scout, an account-based marketing extension that supports customer-facing teams, and Engagio Orchestrate, which allows revenue teams to design and automate impactful marketing plays across multiple channels such as advertising, sales engagement, and CRM. By enabling businesses to engage target accounts effectively, Engagio aids in expanding customer relationships and enhancing sales and marketing efforts. Founded in 2015 and based in San Mateo, California, Engagio operates as a subsidiary of Demandbase, Inc. as of June 2020.

Gong

Seed Round in 2016
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

Ventaso

Series E in 2001
Ventaso develops software designed to link and reassemble content into customized sales material.

Shoretel

Venture Round in 2001
ShoreTel, based in Sunnyvale, California, specializes in developing and selling Internet Protocol (IP) communication systems for enterprises both domestically and internationally. The company provides a range of solutions, including IP phones, voice switches, and service appliances, all built on a distributed software architecture that allows multi-site businesses to operate under a unified telecommunications system. Key offerings include the ShoreTel Communicator, which integrates IP telephony with instant messaging and video collaboration, as well as a contact center solution that efficiently routes incoming contacts. Additionally, ShoreTel supports businesses with custom application development, system design, installation, and training services. Founded in 1996, ShoreTel serves a diverse clientele, including small, medium, and large companies, as well as public institutions across various sectors such as education, healthcare, and technology.

Market-Touch Corp

Venture Round in 2000
Market-Touch Corp., a provider of sales and marketing effectiveness systems.
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