Venture Capital

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.

427 portfolio companies 426 publish APIs here 13 properties
Venture CapitalGrowth EquityEarly StageLate StageEnterprise SaasFintechHealthcareLife SciencesConsumerArtificial IntelligenceNorth AmericaIndiaIsrael
Portfolio Strength across 152 profiled portfolio companies on the network
24 top-rated API companies 5 exemplar · 19 strong
51 agent-ready companies 3 agent-native · 48 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 37.7
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 22.4

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

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

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1 further portfolio companies that don’t yet have a provider page on the network.

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The 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.

Providers
371
of 426 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
21.5
-2.9 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
9.9
-2.8 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
1.2–89.3
median 13.7 · σ 17.8
How the 371 split by band
Exemplar 5Strong 19Developing 48Thin 54Emerging 96Minimal 149
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
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.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
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.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Salesforce 89.3
  2. 2 Harness 86.2
  3. 3 Plaid 71.6
  4. 4 Docusign 68.9
  5. 5 Oracle 67
  6. 6 Apigee 65.8
  7. 7 F5 64.7
  8. 8 Extole 63.8
  9. 9 Demandbase 63.4
  10. 10 Verizon 63.2
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Harness 66.7
  2. 2 Demandbase 60.6
  3. 3 Coval 59.8
  4. 4 Nimbleway 58
  5. 5 Bluecore 54.1
  6. 6 Extole 53.7
  7. 7 Singular 50
  8. 8 Salesforce 49.6
  9. 9 Turso 49.6
  10. 10 F5 49.1
This roster declares 426 members; 407 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 371 carry a score (91%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 22 September 2026, across 27674 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: norwest-venture-partners
name: Norwest Venture Partners
description: >-
  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.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
deliveryModel:
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  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
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  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
image: https://www.norwest.com/wp-content/themes/norwest/assets/images/logo.svg
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Growth Equity
  - Early Stage
  - Late Stage
  - Enterprise Saas
  - Fintech
  - Healthcare
  - Life Sciences
  - Consumer
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - North America
  - India
  - Israel
tags_raw:
  - Venture Capital
  - Growth Equity
  - Early Stage
  - Late Stage
  - Enterprise SaaS
  - Fintech
  - Healthcare
  - Life Sciences
  - Consumer
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - North America
  - India
  - Israel
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.norwest.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.norwest.com/companies/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/norwest-venture-partners-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.norwest.com/team/
  - type: Team
    url: team/norwest-venture-partners-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://www.norwest.com/venture/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.norwest.com/insights/
  - type: News
    url: https://www.norwest.com/news/
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://www.norwest.com/portfolio-jobs/
  - type: Contact
    url: https://www.norwest.com/contact/
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/norwest-venture-partners
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/norwest-venture-partners
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/norwestvp
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Early-stage venture through late-stage growth equity'
      - 'Sectors: enterprise/B2B SaaS, cloud & infrastructure, AI, fintech, healthcare & life sciences, consumer'
      - 'Geography: North America, India, Israel'
      - 'AUM: $15.5B total capital under management (as of NVP XVII, 2024)'
      - 'Latest fund: NVP XVII, LP — $3B (2024)'
      - 'Companies backed: 700+ since inception'
      - 'Founded: 1961'
      - 'HQ: Menlo Park, California'
    sources:
      - https://www.norwest.com/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwest_Venture_Partners
      - https://www.linkedin.com/company/norwest-venture-partners
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Norwest Venture Partners
    url: https://www.norwest.com/

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