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Better Serving Patients Starts with Less Time in Spreadsheets: Why We’re Backing Vitalize
The financial and personal consequences of complicated logistical work add up quickly. According to the American Hospital Association, labor accounts for about 60% of the average hospital’s expenses, and hospitals spent more than $1 trillion on their workforce in 2025 – contract staff alone added up to roughly $51 billion spent in 2023. In healthca…
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The Norwest Operator Collective knows how to tackle a Sunday, especially when the 49ers bring home a win! 🏈 The NOC brings together AI, Data, CISO, and CXO leaders to foster thought leadership, build strategic partnerships, and connect with peers. Thank you to all who joined us from the NOC com...
What comes after the first wave of generative AI? Scott Beechuk joined Grace Gong on Venture with Grace to share where he believes the market is heading, from open-weight and domain-specific models to voice AI, robotics, and the increasingly blurry line between applications and infrastructure. ...
“Every large enterprise in the world is now rebuilding data security and data protection.” - Nitay Milner As AI adoption accelerates, sensitive enterprise data is flowing faster, farther and more unpredictably than ever before, making the data risk problem exponentially larger and more complex. ...
Today, Norwest is co-leading Matchpoint Therapeutics’s $150M Series B financing alongside Nextech Invest. The financing will support the continued advancement of Matchpoint’s pipeline of first-in-class oral medicines for autoimmune diseases. Norwest Principal Brian Matesic, MD, M.D., will join ...
Ask anyone in healthcare why they entered the profession, and you probably wont hear scheduling, timekeeping, or payroll upkeep. But step into a hospital today, and you’ll see it’s the majority of their job. With the U.S. healthcare labor market already under severe strain, lost time does more t...
Our GTM engine just got stronger! We've welcomed Eric Dripchak to Norwest as Vice President, GTM Operating Executive. As part of our Portfolio Success team, Eric works closely with Principal, Marketing Operating Executive Renee Cohen and Norwest portfolio leaders to accelerate growth, build scal...
When we first partnered with the Turso team in 2022, we were excited by the simple but ambitious idea of making powerful backend infrastructure easier for developers to use. Since then, Founder and CEO Glauber Costa and the Turso team have continued to build with that same developer-first mindse...
Norwest portfolio company Zenity was just named a Market Shaper in Gartner’s inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security, Startup Vendors. Out of the nearly 20 startups assessed, only two were defined as Market Shapers. This award comes on the heels of Zenity’s recognition ear...
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We first partnered with @tursodatabase in 2022 around an ambitious idea to make powerful backend infrastructure easier for developers to use.Since then, @glcst and the team have kept pushing the category forward.Today, we’re excited to celebrate Turso’s next chapter with @Supa...
RT Dave ZilbermanWhat a fun ride with the @tursodatabase team! Thoroughly enjoyed partnering with @glcst, @penbergand the Turso team since 2022! And today is an exciting new chapter in the Turso journey as they join@Supabase 🚀@NorwestVP https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
Today, @beltichq is emerging from stealth with $8.8 million in funding led by our team at Norwest.Beltic is building the trust infrastructure for the agentic economy through its "Know Your Agent" platform, helping businesses and financial institutions verify identity, authorit...
Today, we’re excited to introduce Norwest Kinetic, a new community for our portfolio leaders driving AI initiatives and innovation, led by @kenyagen, Norwest Principal and Product, AI, and Technology Operating Executive.Kinetic is designed to help leaders move from AI experime...
RT Ken YagenWhere is AI actually creating value? That’s one of the questions I spend a lot of time thinking about with our portfolio companies at @NorwestVP, and one I enjoyed digging into with Jason Rome on @method_inc's Build What’s Next podcast. https://buildwhatsnext.buzzs...
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...