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Ryan Murphy has spent his career performing at the highest level. A nine-time Olympic medalist, five-time gold medalist, former U.S. team captain, and world-record holder, Ryan is now taking on a very different challenge: learning the craft of deal sourcing at Norwest Venture Partners.In this epi...
Joe Kudla is the visionary founder and CEO of Vuori (pronounced VEE-YOUR-EE), a brand that's redefining activewear. Joe's path to success is anything but ordinary, including a career in fashion and modeling that took him to the fashion capitals of Italy and also, accounting.However, his entrepren...
With more than two decades of experience helping lead private companies to exits, Teri McFadden of Norwest Venture Partners has her pulse on the latest private market trends.Teri sits down with our host Rodney Bolden, Executive Director, Head of Industry Engagement and Learning for Morgan Stanley...
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“If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, then we’re going to get what we’ve got—and what we got ain’t working.”ICON Co-founder/CEO and proud Texan Jason Ballard believes that a radically different approach to construction holds the key to creating affordable housing and solving home...
Dave Zilberman is a General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. Norwest Venture Partners manages more than $12.5 billion in capital. They have invested in over 600 early-to-late-stage companies, with more than 200 currently active. Dave primarily focuses on early to late-stage investments in ent...
Vuori founder Joe Kudla built a 4-billion-dollar company on a risky idea: that men actually cared about the clothes they worked out in. When Joe launched Vuori in 2015, women’s athleisure brands like Lululemon were exploding, but there wasn’t a similar brand that catered to men. So Joe set ou...
Featured Guests: Lily Lyman, general partner, Underscore VC | Scott Beechuk, partner, Norwest Venture Partners Sequoia has had a tumultuous year and their LPs are noticing, a survey of top computer science professors reveals a desire for a federal agency to regulate AI, and Arm prices its IPO bet...
Kat Schneider wasn't happy with the supplement options available to her as an expectant mom. And so, she did something about it: Created her own. In this week's episode, the mother-of-three talks about what it was like building Ritual — a health technology company that is reinventing the produc...
In this episode, we speak with Sonya Brown, General Partner and Co-Head of Growth Equity at Norwest. Norwest is a leading venture and growth equity investment firm managing more than $12.5 billion in capital. Since its inception, the firm has invested in more than 650 companies and currently part...
Get ready for an enthralling and thought-provoking ride as we kick off the premiere episode of The Fashion Facade! We're diving headfirst into the murky waters of America's fast fashion obsession and how it's impacting the environment, all through the lens of the biggest shopping day of the year:...
Top of mind for many startups during a downturn is the question, "How do we balance investment in growing our business while maintaining a modest burn to extend our time to next funding?" In this session we will explore some creative techniques to grow your business with efficiency. Hear from thr...
The downturn that has dominated the new cycle doesn’t bring a lot of positivity and can have investors and founders feeling nervous. However, the financial flux doesn’t need to be a negative. Sean Jacobsohn, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, sees the positives within the changing market a...
#006 Promod Haque - Senior Managing Partner @ Norwest Venture Partners. Promod's investments at NVP include Apigee (acquired by Google, Nasdaq: APIC); FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE); Skybox Imaging (acquired by Google for $500 million); Cyan (acquired by Ciena); Cerent (acquired by Cisco for $7.2 bill...
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For 65 years, Norwest has been shaped by people who work hard, speak up, and make one another better. We believe the best ideas win regardless of title or tenure and that creating opportunities for people to grow strengthens the entire firm. As Jon Kossow shares, we’re proud to have maintained t...
A warm welcome to our newest Norwest colleagues 🌇 Every summer, our team welcomes new hires across the firm, and onboards the cohort through our Core program, which equips them with a deep understanding of our firm and how we support entrepreneurs, of course with some fun along the way. This ye...
Nothing like dinner and a little GTM shop talk. Last week in NYC, Norwest Principal Marketing Operating Executive Renee Cohen and CRO Operating Executive and Principal David Rudnitsky brought together a group of GTM leaders at Oriana in New York City to dig into how teams are establishing differ...
Calling all sales and marketing leaders 📣 Every year, we run our B2B GTM Benchmark Survey to understand how go-to-market teams are evolving and where leaders are investing for what’s next. This year, we’re expanding the survey and inviting GTM leaders across industries and company stages to par...
Norwest is leading the $12.5 million Series A for Rezolv AI, India’s fastest-growing AI-native lending platform for financial services. Founded in 2024 by Karan Mehta and Sonali Jindal, Rezolv combines a comprehensive collections platform with purpose-built AI to help banks and NBFCs improve rec...
We’re excited to welcome 7 new investors to our Growth Equity and Venture teams! This week, they kicked off their journey at Norwest in true Bay Area fashion — with a trip to the 49ers preseason game. 🏈 Get to know our new team members below: 🔹 Justin Hur joins our growth equity team with a foc...
Congratulations to the Norwest portfolio companies recognized on the 2026 Inc. Magazine. 5000, honoring the fastest-growing private companies in America. Across industries and stages, these companies are continuing to scale during an era of rapid change and deep innovation. We’re proud to celeb...
The Norwest team had a great week in Las Vegas connecting with founders, operators, and leaders across the cybersecurity ecosystem. It was great to bring our community together over breakfast: Above Security, Alice (Formerly ActiveFence), DTEX, Ever Security, Heeler, Intezer, ORION Security, Rave...
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RT BloombergAn Israeli startup that works to protect artificial intelligence models from misuse and rogue behavior has raised $140 million after a spate of high-profile hacks from AI systems https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-25/ai-safety-startup-alice-partner-of-...
RT Nikhil gFour months ago we published this map of the agentic payments stack. Back then there was still no clean bridge between the settlement layer for agents and the vendors up top to actually pay for the models and tools they needed. Routing lived in silos / metering was...
Norwest is proud to lead @zenitysec’s $125M Series C.AI adoption is outpacing governance and AI agents are changing the nature of risk entirely. We believe this is the defining security problem of the agentic era: the agent is the new perimeter, and the perimeter needs a platf...
Excited to see @stanforcreators launch Stanley! Congratulations to @JayHoovy and the entire team on launching a tool that understands what creators need.John Hu: Introducing Stanley: The first AI Head of Content that will help you grow your following.Stanley works just like a ...
An operator mindset means having respect and empathy for all the work that CEOs and founders put into their companies and offering the resources and guidance they need throughout their journey.This mindset guides us in partnering with companies, and it shapes our invited guest...
We’re excited to announce that Norwest is leading @Covaldev’s Series A.Coval is building the operations platform for enterprise voice agents, helping organizations test, observe, and improve voice systems before and after deployment.As voice becomes a primary interface for AI,...
RT Ken YagenI’m excited to share that I’ve joined the @NorwestVP Portfolio Success team as Product, AI & Technology Operating Executive and Principal.I’ve always enjoyed working with teams at the intersection of product, technology, and growth. That work is only getting more ...
Big news for @natomalabs the company has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by @Snowflake.We backed @pratyus, Will Potter, Paresh Bhaya and team because they saw where enterprise AI infrastructure was headed early.Proud to have partnered with them. https://nato...