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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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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...
In CIO Journal, Norwest General Partner Dave Zilberman shared what he is hearing from the Norwest Operator Collective, our community of 90+ CIOs, CISOs and other senior technology leaders. As companies operationalize AI, leaders are becoming more deliberate about where it creates business value ...
Thank you to Laurie Tennant, SPHR and the other Norwest People Leaders who joined us in San Francisco for Liminal Space: a Rite of Passage — a special evening of reflection, connection, and community. We’re proud to continue building a community where our portfolio leaders can learn from one ano...
Welcome to Norwest, Allison Toman! Allison joins our Healthcare Venture team as Principal, with extensive experience in medical devices, diagnostics, and healthcare investing. Allison joins us from Medtronic, where she spent eight years leading venture investments across neuromodulation, neurova...
Welcome to the team, Abhijit Chiripal! He joins Norwest India as Head - Corporate Development and M&A, where he will focus on the firm's M&A and capital markets initiatives. Abhijit will partner with portfolio companies, helping founders and management teams navigate pivotal growth milestones a...
Enterprise AI is entering a more pragmatic era. In today’s CIO Journal newsletter, Norwest General Partner Dave Zilberman, shares with The Wall Street Journal's Steve Rosenbush what he’s hearing about shifting sentiments on enterprise AI adoption from the Norwest Operator Collective, our commun...
Today, we're excited to share that Norwest is leading Zenity's $125 million Series C to secure AI agents everywhere, with participation from Qumra Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, and LG Technology Ventures, alongside existing investors Vertex Ventures US, Th...
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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...
A few weeks later, and we’re still reflecting on the conversations and connections that came out of the 2026 Norwest CEO Summit.Over two days, 90+ portfolio CEOs stepped away from the day-to-day to share candid perspectives on the decisions shaping their businesses today. From...
AI is redefining the future of HR tech.We believe the next generation of HR software will move beyond systems of record to become systems of action, helping organizations make better workforce decisions in real time. Together with @StormVentures, we mapped the HR tech stack & ...