Hello! Hope all is well at <your company>! Are you interested in connecting with customers through email? Did you know that most mailboxes are inundated with hundreds of emails a day? I’d love to talk to you about a terrific new startup to help you cut through the noise! Do you have time for a […]

Engineering teams play a significant role in maximizing a startup’s success from its earliest stages—any misstep in the structure or strategy can significantly hamper growth. And once growth takes off, you’re faced with the challenges of scaling engineering teams. To learn best practices on scaling engineering organizations, we hosted a fireside chat with three industry […]

Today Norwest is thrilled to announce our investment in Veza, a next-generation data security company built for the multi-cloud era. Veza empowers security, IT, and data teams to secure their organizations by answering a simple, but critical question: who can and should take what action, on what data? Category Creation Here at Norwest, we love […]

Today, Norwest is thrilled to announce that we are doubling down on our investment in Obsidian Security, a next-generation SaaS Security and Posture Management (SSPM) company. Obsidian helps security and IT operations teams bridge the security and compliance gaps created when lines of business adopt SaaS applications. After leading the Series B-1 in June 2021, […]

Today, Norwest is thrilled to announce our Series B investment in Enable. Enable has built a next-generation channel incentive management platform that automatically helps distributors, manufacturers, and retailers track, calculate, accrue, and allocate B2B rebates.   Strong Team When we met the founder and CEO Andrew Butt, we were impressed with his clarity of thought, […]

Founded a company and thinking about raising a Series A? Matt Howard has led 22 Series A investments over the past 20+ years as a VC through five recessions. Most of these investments occurred well before the product launched and were largely based on one or two founders with 15+ PowerPoint slides!  We take pride […]

Today, Norwest is thrilled to announce our Series C investment in Harness. Harness is the leading intelligent continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD) and software delivery platform that empowers software engineering teams to develop applications more quickly and securely. We’re excited to partner with co-founders Jyoti Bansal (CEO) and Rishi Singh (CTO) on their journey to […]

Norwest is thrilled to announce our Series B investment in ZineOne, a leading predictive customer engagement platform. ZineOne’s Intelligent Customer Engagement platform uses its patent-pending Customer DNA technology to uncover the precise moment when brands should interact with their visitors across digital channels with relevant, real-time 1:1 engagements. We’re excited to have the opportunity to […]

Automating Relief from an Error-Prone Process  Today, Norwest is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Spiff, a leading sales compensation automation platform. Spiff simplifies sales commission calculations and enables companies to easily build and maintain compensation plans. Founder and CEO Jeron Paul felt the burden of manually calculating commissions firsthand and set out […]

As companies undergo digital transformations, they are increasingly embracing new applications and business processes. Today’s typical enterprise runs more than 1,000 applications, and business users are left to hack together workflows to integrate them. With the proliferation of SaaS offerings, companies’ IT teams are increasingly backlogged and unable to handle all the workflow integration needs […]