Norwest
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
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.
- Total investments:
- 1067
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
- Fund size:
- $3B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Norwest invests in
Stages Norwest invests in
Countries Norwest invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 30 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $6.5M–$33M
- Series B
- $10M–$77M
- Series C
- $11M–$115M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 127 (12%)
- Information Technology 66 (6%)
- Health Care 62 (6%)
- SaaS 56 (5%)
- Enterprise Software 43 (4%)
Stage
- Series B 154 (14%)
- Series C 137 (13%)
- Series A 133 (12%)
- Funding Round 93 (9%)
- Series D 84 (8%)
Country
- United States 350 (33%)
- India 46 (4%)
- Israel 15 (1%)
- Canada 7 (1%)
- China 2 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brian Matesic
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Dave Zilberman
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 31 | Find email | |
David Su
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Dror Nahumi
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 54 | Find email | |
Edward Yip
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
| See all 30 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beltic helps fintechs onboard businesses faster by using KYB data, signals, and LLMs to assess risk, flag fraud, and explain decisions. | $7.3M / Seed / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Naviam is an IT Asset Management firm offering their client EAM solution with their expertise. | Private Equity / Sep 07, 2026 | ||
| ActiveFence is a computer software company that provides an AI-based software platform that specializes in detecting malicious content online at scale. It helps and supports technology platforms and government agencies to monitor malicious activities online and offline. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $140M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Alice is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence’s end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, andmore. Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 70+ languages. | $140M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Rezolv develops an AI-powered debt collection and recovery platform for financial institutions. The platform manages the full debt recovery lifecycle, from pre-delinquency through write-off, and supports collection activities across digital channels, calling, field operations, and legal actions. Its capabilities include automated collectionstrategies, case management, payment prediction, customer segmentation, conversational AI, call analysis, compliance monitoring, and analytics.Rezolv supports multiple credit products, including personal, auto, home, business, agricultural, SME, gold, and microfinance loans. The company operates as a lending technology (LendTech) SaaS provider, helping lenders automate collection workflows, optimize recovery strategies, and manage in-house and outsourced collection teams. | $12.5M / Series A / Aug 18, 2026 | ||
| Obsidian Security provides SaaS and AI security software that detects threats, manages risks, and secures enterprise applications. | $85M / Series D / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Zenity is the first and only governance and security platform for low-code/no-code applications. It creates a win-win environment where IT and information security can give business and pro developers the independence they want to move the business forward while retaining full visibility and control. | $115M / Series C / Aug 03, 2026 | ||
| Raghu Vamsi manufactures and exports CNC machines, mechanical sub-assemblies, aero structures, and precision engineering components. | $41.5M / Series B / Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Veriqus Partners is an integrated financial services platform. The company acts as a comprehensive, "single-window" primary advisor, structuring its operations across four interconnected pillars. | $40.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Coval is a simulation and evaluation platform for AI agents, enabling engineers to deploy reliable assistants across chat and modalities. | $28M / Series A / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| See all 1067 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Norwest invest in?
Norwest invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 1,067 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Norwest's check size?
Norwest typically joins rounds of $6.5M–$33M at Series A, $10M–$77M at Series B and $11M–$115M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Norwest participates in.
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Who are the partners at Norwest?
The team at Norwest includes Brian Matesic (Principal), Dave Zilberman (General Partner) and David Su (Partner), among 30 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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