Norwest Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital and growth equity investment firm founded in 1961 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional presence in San Francisco and subsidiaries in Mumbai, India and Tel Aviv, Israel. As of its 2024 NVP XVII fund ($3B), the firm manages more than $15.5 billion in capital and has backed over 700 companies across its history. Norwest invests across the full lifecycle — from early-stage venture through late-stage growth equity — with sector focus spanning enterprise and B2B SaaS, cloud and infrastructure, AI, fintech, healthcare and life sciences (including biotech and digital health), and consumer and lifestyle brands. The firm is known for a hands-on but non-intrusive partnership model, backing its founders with Portfolio Success programs across talent, operations, leadership, and go-to-market. Notable investments include Plaid, Uber, Spotify, Opendoor, Gong, Vuori, Kendra Scott, Casper, Udemy, Avetta, Adaptive Insights, YipitData, Babylist, Workato, and Veza.
Norwest Venture Partners has 427 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 152 (36%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 274 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Salesforce, Harness, Plaid, Docusign, Oracle.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 19 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 48 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 45 Limited public surface area
Emerging 28 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 7 Almost no public developer surface
Rest of Portfolio
1 further portfolio companies that don’t yet have a provider page on the network.
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 371 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Norwest Venture Partners, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Governance | 6.6 | 6.6 | 0 | 371 |
| Access Clarity | 25.8 | 27.2 | -1.4 | 371 |
| Discoverability | 59.7 | 61.5 | -1.8 | 371 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.6 | 23.8 | -2.2 | 371 |
| Operational Transparency | 11 | 14.4 | -3.4 | 371 |
| Contract Quality | 15 | 20.4 | -5.4 | 371 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 11% | 11% | 0 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 12% | 13% | -1 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 11% | 12% | -1 |
| Security | 98% | 96% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 4% | 2% | +2 |
| Governance rules | 11% | 13% | -2 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
- 1 Salesforce 89.3
- 2 Harness 86.2
- 3 Plaid 71.6
- 4 Docusign 68.9
- 5 Oracle 67
- 6 Apigee 65.8
- 7 F5 64.7
- 8 Extole 63.8
- 9 Demandbase 63.4
- 10 Verizon 63.2
- 1 Harness 66.7
- 2 Demandbase 60.6
- 3 Coval 59.8
- 4 Nimbleway 58
- 5 Bluecore 54.1
- 6 Extole 53.7
- 7 Singular 50
- 8 Salesforce 49.6
- 9 Turso 49.6
- 10 F5 49.1
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