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Norwest Venture Partners
Investment firm · Founded 1961 · Active in 2026
Norwest Venture Partners is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 1961. The page below shows 73 Power Law outcomes from Norwest Venture Partners's portfolio — 64 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 6 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · India · Canada. Norwest Venture ranks #85 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Norwest Venture’s biggest exits.
Norwest Venture portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Norwest Venture’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Norwest Venture’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 15 companies where Norwest Venture is a named shareholder, worth about $6.0B in estimated equity value.
Showing the 12 largest of 15 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Norwest Venture’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Norwest Venture also appears inside investor groups in Workato, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
+3 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 73 Norwest Venture Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA59
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India11
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Canada1
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China1
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Israel1
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Fintech16
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Other9
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Other B2B Software9
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Marketing8
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Cybersecurity7
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eCommerce & Marketplaces6
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AI5
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Biotech & Life Sciences5
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Health Tech & Medtech4
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Transportation1
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Edtech1
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Robotics1
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Series B+53
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Series A16
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Seed2
Norwest Venture's 73 Power Law outcomes.
How does Norwest Venture stack up?
Norwest Venture in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Norwest Venture's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
160 founders across the 73 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Norwest Venture.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Norwest Venture Partners
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Norwest Venture on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Norwest Venture Partners
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