Norwest venture partners

Founded in 1961, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global venture capital firm located in Silicon Valley. The firm manages more than $2.5 billion in venture capital and has funded over 400 companies since inception. NVP has direct and cross-border investments in the U.S., India, Israel and China.

Norwest Venture Partners provides capital to seed-stage, early-stage and select late-stage companies. NVP will generally invest between $10 million and $15 million in a company over time. They sometimes begin with a smaller amount (as little as $1 million to $3 million), and have the ability to invest as much as $25 million to $30 million. They are frequently the lead investor or sometimes may join with other venture capital firms, corporate partners and founding investors.

The firm’s U.S. investment team includes Promod Haque, George J. Still Jr., Robert Abbott, Jeffrey Crowe, Vab Goel, Matthew Howard, Jim Lussier, Venkat Mohan, Joshua Goldman, Timothy Chang and Sergio Monsalve. The firm’s India investment team includes Promod Haque, Niren Shah and Mohan Kumar.

Managing Partner Promod Haque, has been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past eight years, and in 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade. General Partner Matthew Howard has been named to the Forbes Midas list for the past three years.

NVP has funded such market leaders as Actel Corporation, Cerent (acquired by Cisco Systems), Documentum (acquired by EMC), Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), PeopleSoft (acquired by Oracle) and Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM).

Norwest Venture Partners was the sole venture investor in PeopleSoft. Managing Partner George J. Still, Jr., served on the company’s board of directors for more than 10 years. PeopleSoft grew from a start-up to an S&P 500 company with revenues in excess of $2 billion until it was acquired by Oracle for over $10 billion in January 2005.

NVP's Investment Focus

*Internet, Media & Consumer
**Enabling Internet Technologies
**Consumer Services
**E-Commerce
*Services
**Business
**Communications
**Infrastructure
*Software
**Infrastructure
**Applications
*Systems
**Communications
**Enterprise
*Semiconductors & Components

Links

* [http://www.nvp.com NVP website]
* [http://www.nvp.com/story/default.aspx NVP - Our Story]
* [http://www.forbes.com/legacy/forbes/2001/0219/086tab1_table_2.shtml Promod Haque Forbes Midas List 2001]
* [http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/99/2002/LIR.jhtml?passListId=99&passYear=2002&passListType=Person&uniqueId=SN6V&datatype=Person Promod Haque Forbes Midas List 2002]
* [http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/99/2003/LIR.jhtml?passListId=99&passYear=2003&passListType=Person&uniqueId=SN6V&datatype=Person Promod Haque Forbes Midas List 2003]
* [http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/99/2004/LIR.jhtml?passListId=99&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=SN6V&datatype=Person Promod Haque Forbes Midas List 2004]
* [http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/99/2005/LIR.jhtml?passListId=99&passYear=2005&passListType=Person&uniqueId=SN6V&datatype=Person Promod Haque Forbes Midas List 2005]
* [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/99/SN6V.html Promod Haque Forbes Midas List 2006]
* [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/99/biz_07midas_Promod-Haque_SN6V.html Promod Haque Forbes Midas List 2007]
* [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Promod-Haque_SN6V.html Promod Haque Forbes Midas List 2008]
* [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/99/5VFU.html Matthew Howard Forbes Midas List 2006]
* [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/99/biz_07midas_Matthew-Howard_5VFU.html Matthew Howard Forbes Midas List 2007]
* [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Matthew-D-Howard_5VFU.html Matthew Howard Forbes Midas List 2008]
* [http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/24/midas-venture-capital-tech-08midas-cz_eb_0124method.html Forbes Midas List Methodology]
* [http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,98835,00.html Oracle closes PeopleSoft acquisition]
* [http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/fspnisapi1679.html Cisco Systems to acquire Cerent Corporation]