Edward Yip
Partner @ Norwest
San Francisco, United States
Edward Yip is a Partner at Norwest Venture Partners and a Board Member at Noyo, Tempo, Imperfect Foods, and Torch Labs. He previously worked as an M and A Corporate Advisory at Evercore Partners. Edward attended Dartmouth College.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
Last updated:
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Industries Edward Yip invests in
Stages Edward Yip invests in
Countries Edward Yip invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (12%)
- FinTech 2 (12%)
- Internet 2 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (12%)
- Mobile 1 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (24%)
- Series B 4 (24%)
- Seed 3 (18%)
- Series C 3 (18%)
- Series D 1 (6%)
Investments
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Butter Payments
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Subscription companies are losing 10%+ of revenue to failed payments—billions of dollars a year—a problem known as “Involuntary churn.”Butter is on a mission to end involuntary churn. Using machine learning we help the greatest subscription companies in the world—Fabletics, The Athletic, Savage x Fenty, Found, Tonal, Hairstory—recover morerevenue, optimize authorization rates, and increase customer lifetime value.Butter, backed by world-class investors—Atomic, Norwest Venture Partners, SpringTide, Transpose Platform—is building a better future for subscription payments.The company was founded in 2020 by Vijay Menon. | $22M / Series A / Jan 11, 2023 | |
Torch
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Torch is a leadership development platform with integrated coaching, software, and feedback to raise high performers to the next level. It was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping senior leaders perform at their highest level.Torch is on a mission to empower leaders to build highgrowth, high-performance cultures by building the awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively.Our proven model blends human intelligence and digital technology to accelerate talent development and deliver measurable leadership outcomes. | $40M / Series C / May 22, 2022 | |
Noyo
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Noyo is making modern insurance happen through API-based data exchange. Founded by leaders in benefits, insurance, and API technology, Noyo is the first company to transform the underlying infrastructure of the benefits industry with seamless digital connectivity. With Noyo, crucial benefits data is instantly available anywhere it’s needed,unlocking new possibilities for how benefits are designed and delivered. | $45M / Series B / May 19, 2022 | |
Swimply
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Swimply is an online marketplace that allows owners of underutilized swimming pools to monetize their pools’ downtime by sharing them locally by the hour. Think Airbnb, but for swimming pools. | $40M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 15, 2021 | |
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Swimply
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Swimply is an online marketplace that allows owners of underutilized swimming pools to monetize their pools’ downtime by sharing them locally by the hour. Think Airbnb, but for swimming pools. | $10M / Series A / May 05, 2021 | |
Tempo
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Tempo designs and develops a home fitness platform with personal guidance to help users in their training sessions. It features live elite trainers who can help users when they make mistakes. It has built-in three-dimensional sensors that track form, counts reps, and recommend weights. It helps users to improve in real-time. Powered by 3D motionsensors and AI, it analyzes 25 of the body’s essential joints as users work out and gives understood form feedback. Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin founded it as Pivot in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $220M / Series C / Apr 13, 2021 | |
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Torch
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Torch is a leadership development platform with integrated coaching, software, and feedback to raise high performers to the next level. It was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping senior leaders perform at their highest level.Torch is on a mission to empower leaders to build highgrowth, high-performance cultures by building the awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively.Our proven model blends human intelligence and digital technology to accelerate talent development and deliver measurable leadership outcomes. | $25M / Series B / Feb 25, 2021 | |
Imperfect Foods
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Imperfect Foods provides grocery delivery service rescuing and redistributing food across multiple grocery categories – including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Imperfect Foods has remained hyper focused on eliminating food waste and supporting farmers and producers when it comes to excess and imperfect products. The companynow rescues and redistributes food across multiple grocery categories - including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Its performance and agility during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that this mission-driven model is poised for success in the long term.- | $110M / Series D / Jan 21, 2021 | |
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Tempo
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Tempo designs and develops a home fitness platform with personal guidance to help users in their training sessions. It features live elite trainers who can help users when they make mistakes. It has built-in three-dimensional sensors that track form, counts reps, and recommend weights. It helps users to improve in real-time. Powered by 3D motionsensors and AI, it analyzes 25 of the body’s essential joints as users work out and gives understood form feedback. Moawia Eldeeb and Joshua Augustin founded it as Pivot in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $60M / Series B / Jul 29, 2020 | |
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Imperfect Foods
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Imperfect Foods provides grocery delivery service rescuing and redistributing food across multiple grocery categories – including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Imperfect Foods has remained hyper focused on eliminating food waste and supporting farmers and producers when it comes to excess and imperfect products. The companynow rescues and redistributes food across multiple grocery categories - including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Its performance and agility during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that this mission-driven model is poised for success in the long term.- | $72M / Series C / May 20, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About Norwest
Norwest is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies. Since its inception, it has invested in more than 600 companies and partnered with over 140 active companies across our venture and growth equity portfolio. The firm invests in early to late-stage companies across a wide range ofsectors with a focus on consumer, enterprise, and healthcare. It offers a deep network of connections, operating experience, and a wide range of impactful services to help CEOs and founders scale their businesses.
Norwest Contacts
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Brian Matesic
Principal
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Dave Zilberman
General Partner
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David Su
Partner
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Dror Nahumi
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Edward Yip
Partner
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What does Edward Yip invest in?
Edward Yip invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Edward Yip closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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