| Website | nvp.com |
| Phone | (650) 321-8000 |
| Employees |
| Norwest Venture Partners XI, 11/09 | $1.2B |
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global venture and growth equity investment firm that manages more than $3.7 billion in capital.
It has offices in Palo Alto, California, Mumbai and Bangalore, India and Herzelia, Israel. NVP makes early to late stage venture and growth equity investments in U.S. and global companies across a wide range of sectors including: information technology, business services, financial services, infrastructure, technology enabled services and consumer. NVP has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 48 years and has funded over 450 companies since inception.
Notable investments include Actel Corporation, Airespace (acquired by Cisco Systems), Brocade, Cerent (acquired by Cisco Systems), Corio (acquired by IBM), Cray Research, Documentum (acquired by EMC), Extreme Networks, Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), NSE (National Stock Exchange of India), OnMobile (NSE: OnMobile), Open-Silicon (acquired by Unicorn Investment Bank), PeopleSoft (acquired by Oracle), Polycom, Qumranet (acquired by Red Hat), Rackspace (NYSE:RAX), Shriram City Union Finance, Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), SideStep (acquired by Kayak), Spinnaker Networks (acquired by Network Appliance), SPSS (acquired by IBM), Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM), Transaction Systems Architects (Nasdaq: ACIW), Verio (acquired by NTT), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola) and Yipes (acquired by Reliance/Flag Telecom). For more information, please visit www.nvp.com.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Playdom | 11/09 | Series A | $43M | 4 |
| RiseSmart | 10/09 | Series A | $4.6M | 2 |
| Unisfair | 9/09 | Unattributed | $3.2M | 2 |
| Advanced Inquiry Systems Inc. | 8/09 | Series B | $11M | 6 |
| Borqs | 7/09 | Series B | $17.4M | 3 |
| TimeBridge | 5/09 | Series B | $5M | 2 |
| NearbyNow | 4/09 | Series C | $11.8M | 3 |
| ngmoco | 3/09 | Series B | $10M | 3 |
| Lending Club | 3/09 | Series B | $12M | 3 |
| Pontis | 2/09 | Series B | $19.7M | 4 |
| Appnomic | 1/09 | Series A | $4.2M | 1 |
| SpectraLinear | 1/09 | Series C | $10M | 6 |
| RiseSmart | 12/08 | Series A | $3M | 1 |
| iStorez | 10/08 | Series A | $2.3M | 1 |
| Sonoa Systems | 10/08 | Series C | $10M | 4 |
| Vanu | 9/08 | Unattributed | $32M | 3 |
| PCH International | 9/08 | Series A | $21M | 3 |
| Brand.net | 8/08 | Series B | $10M | 2 |
| Picateers | 8/08 | Series B | $6.6M | 1 |
| Turn | 8/08 | Series C | $15M | 4 |
| myYearbook | 7/08 | Series B | $13M | 3 |
| Sojern | 7/08 | Series A | $16M | 2 |
| Lumos Labs | 6/08 | Series A | $3M | 3 |
| StarCite | 6/08 | Series B | $15M | 3 |
| ShotSpotter | 5/08 | Series D | $7.5M | 6 |
| FireEye | 5/08 | Series C | $14.5M | 6 |
| deCarta | 5/08 | Series C | $10.5M | 3 |
| Mozes | 5/08 | Series B | $11.5M | 3 |
| Retrevo | 3/08 | Series B | $8M | 2 |
| Turn | 3/08 | Series B | $15M | 3 |
| Unisfair | 1/08 | Series B | $10M | 2 |
| TuVox | 12/07 | Series D | $20M | 5 |
| Kayak | 12/07 | Series D | $196M | 9 |
| fatdoor | 11/07 | Series A | $5.5M | 2 |
| Center'd | 10/07 | Series A | $5.5M | 2 |
| Lending Club | 8/07 | Series A | $10.3M | 2 |
| deCarta | 7/07 | Series C | $15M | 3 |
| 3Jam | 7/07 | Series A | $4M | 2 |
| Cyan | 5/07 | Series A | $8.75M | 3 |
| Veveo | 5/07 | Unattributed | $14M | 3 |
| AmberPoint, Inc | 4/07 | Unattributed | $9M | 5 |
| Mozes | 2/07 | Series A | $5M | 2 |
| Veraz Networks | 2/07 | Unattributed | $10M | 9 |
| SideStep | 2/07 | Series C | $15M | 4 |
| Retrevo | 12/06 | Series A | $3.2M | 2 |
| Sonoa Systems | 11/06 | Series B | $16M | 4 |
| ClairMail | 11/06 | Series B | $12M | 3 |
| Turn | 11/06 | Series A | $8.5M | 3 |
| Coveroo | 9/06 | Series B | $10M | 2 |
| mBlox | 2/06 | Series D | $25M | 5 |
| Picateers | 2006 | Series A | $5.5M | 1 |
| Double Fusion | 2006 | Unattributed | $26M | 7 |
| Mercora | 1/05 | Series A | $5M | 1 |
| FireEye | 1/05 | Series A | $6.45M | 2 |
| mBlox | 7/04 | Series B | $10M | 6 |
