# Norwest

> Norwest is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 941 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 941
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last fund: Apr 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/norwest-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/NorwestVP
- Website: http://www.nvp.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorwestVenturePartners/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $6.5M–$40M |
| Series B | $10M–$100M |
| Series C | $12M–$115M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 127 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 66 | 7% |
| Health Care | 62 | 7% |
| SaaS | 56 | 6% |
| Enterprise Software | 43 | 5% |

311 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 154 | 16% |
| Series C | 137 | 15% |
| Series A | 133 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 93 | 10% |
| Series D | 84 | 9% |

16 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 350 | 37% |
| India | 46 | 5% |
| Israel | 15 | 2% |
| Canada | 7 | 1% |
| China | 2 | 0% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Matesic | Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-matesic-85fa |
| Dave Zilberman | General Partner | 30 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-zilberman |
| David Su | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-su-2 |
| Dror Nahumi | General Partner | 42 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dror-nahumi |
| Edward Yip | Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-yip |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Obsidian Security | Led by former founding team members of Cylance and Carbon Black, Obsidian Security is a Southern California technology company living at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and hybrid-cloud environments. Backed by Greylock Partners, Obsidian Security is based in Newport Beach, CA. | $85M | Series D | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Zenity | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| East Range Group | East Range Group is holding group that offers water treatment, water safety, sustainability, and clean water. |  | Private Equity | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Remedy Science | Remedy Science is a dermatologist created educational skincare brand that offers skincare products. | $20M | Series A | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Remedy Science | Remedy Science is a dermatologist created educational skincare brand that offers skincare products. | $20M | Series A | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Jedify | Jedify is a technology company that develops a contextual data platform designed to support artificial intelligence systems and enterprise data environments. The company focuses on building a “context graph” that connects structured and unstructured data, business logic, and organizational knowledge into a unified layer that AI systems can use toreason more effectively. Its platform, called Semantic Fusion, is intended to translate fragmented enterprise data from sources such as databases, cloud systems, SaaS tools, and documents into an AI-ready knowledge structure. The platform enables organizations to create connected representations of their business entities, relationships, workflows, and metrics, allowing AI agents and analytics systems to operate with better understanding of context. Instead of relying solely on raw tables or isolated metadata, Jedify builds a semantic model that links data points with real-world business meaning, such as customer definitions, revenue logic, permissions, and operational rules.Jedify also provides tools that allow enterprises to integrate multiple data sources and continuously update their contextual models as new information flows through systems. This enables AI applications to generate insights, answer natural language queries, and support decision-making processes while remaining aligned with internal business definitions and governance rules. | $24M | Series A | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Generalist AI | Generalist AI is a robotics firm formed by a senior researcher who left Google to investigate robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) at Google Deepmind. | $400M | Series B | Jun 04, 2026 |  |

10 of 941 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 50 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 49 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 39 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 26 deals together
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 25 deals together

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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 941 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–$40M at Series A, $10M–$100M at Series B and $12M–$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.

### How do I contact Norwest?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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