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In today's Tech3 from Moneycontrol, we decode Donald Trump's message to Apple CEO Tim Cook: don't build in India unless it's for India. We also break down IKF Finance's massive $175 million fundraise led by Norwest, and what it means for India's MSME lending. Plus, Infosys slashes bonus payouts amid tough macros, and a surge in cancellations as Indian tourists boycott Turkey and Azerbaijan. Tune in for the sharpest updates from tech and startups.
We talk with Will Messiter, Chief Operating Officer - Residential Communities and Home Building at Sekisui House Australia at the opening of their $4.8 Million Asora Norwest Community Park. Providing 9,553 sqm of essential green space and recreational amenities to residents in Norwest, one of Sydney's rapidly expanding suburbs in the Hills Shire, Irongum Terrace Reserve responds directly to rising demand for premium outdoor spaces, with the Hills Shire population forecasted to grow nearly 70% by 2046.Messiter, who is also an architect, gives his views on the housing shortage, the changes in Australia's housing markets and the Asora Norwest Community Park.
Norwest Carpentry is enhancing home security in Kununurra with expert Crimsafe security screen installations. These durable, high-quality screens offer superior protection while maintaining airflow and aesthetics. Committed to safety and customer satisfaction, Norwest Carpentry provides tailored solutions for homes and businesses. Norwest Carpentry City: Kununurra Address: 8 Salacca Loop Website: https://norwestcarpentry.com.au/
In this episode of Private Equity Spotlight, Sean Mooney sits down with Ran Ding and Chris Scullin from Norwest to discuss why private equity is ultimately a people-driven business. With deep insights into founder-led businesses and long-term partnership strategies, Ran and Chris share their unique approach to building trust, creating value, and fostering alignment with the companies they invest in. From their personal journeys to the principles that guide their work, this episode offers timeless lessons for investors and founders alike. Episode Highlights 2:15 – Discover how Ran Ding and Chris Scullin turned personal challenges into professional purpose in private equity. 8:45 – Building trust and alignment: The secret to lasting partnerships in founder-led businesses. 17:30 – Winning strategies for scaling founder-driven companies while preserving their culture. 26:15 – How a people-first mindset sets Norwest apart in the world of private equity investing. 36:50 – Real-world examples of value creation and supporting businesses through thoughtful capital allocation. 48:20 – How to craft your own adventure: Lessons in finding energy and fulfillment in your career journey. For more information on Norwest, go to https://www.nvp.com/ For more information on Ran Ding, go to https://www.linkedin.com/in/randing For more information on Chris Scullin, go to https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisscullin/ For more information on BluWave and this podcast, go to https://www.bluwave.net/podcasts
ICON, which builds homes using 3D printing, has closed on $56 million in Series C funding co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Tiger Global, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch exclusively. The raise represents a first close for the Austin-based ICON, according to a spokesperson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode we speak with Ran Ding, General Partner at Norwest, a global venture and growth equity investment firm managing more than $15.5 billion in capital. Since its inception, the firm has invested in more than 700 companies and currently partners with more than 250 companies in its venture and growth equity portfolio. Ran joined Norwest in 2011. As a General Partner and Co-Head of the Growth Equity team, Ran focuses on growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including technology, business services, and consumer. His most recent investments include Banyan Software, Datacor, Elite Business Ventures and SpryPoint. Ran is a two-time awardee of GrowthCap's Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors, as well as GrowthCap's Top Software Investors. I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show. If you like the episode, click to follow.
In this episode of the Karma School of Business, Sean Mooney hosts Lisa Ames, an accomplished marketing operating executive at Norwest Venture Partners. Lisa shares her unique journey into private equity, the value of fostering trust as a business leader, and actionable strategies for marketing and value creation at portfolio companies. Whether you're a business builder or a marketing professional, this conversation is packed with insights to elevate your approach to leadership and growth. Episode Highlights 3:07 - Lisa's unexpected path to private equity and how her SaaS background shaped her role at Norwest. 6:05 - The concept of a "business therapist" and why trust is pivotal in operating roles. 14:25 - Key traits of high-performing businesses, including ruthless prioritization and inspirational leadership. 26:37 - Norwest's unique approach to value creation and the resources they offer portfolio companies. 35:11 - Advice on refining Ideal Customer Profiles (ICP) and crafting impactful messaging for targeted growth. 50:16 - Lisa's timeless advice on networking and how building authentic connections transforms careers. For more information on Norwest Venture Partners, go to https://www.nvp.com/ For more information on Lisa Ames, go to https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaames For more information on BluWave and this podcast, go to https://www.bluwave.net/podcasts
In episode 196 of Commercial Real Estate Leadership, you'll hear how recognising your team's value and structured processes can fuel efficiency and growth. Darren Krakowiak uncovers this and more with Grant Beaumont, the Managing Director of Beaumont Property and Head of the Coutts group and Norwest Commercial in Sydney. Discover how Grant balances responsibility for multiple businesses, works with virtual assistants, and optimises performance across the group. You'll also hear why he believes in empowering his executive assistant and invests in external coaching to unlock his full potential and elevate his leadership. Listen now for practical leadership strategies, insights on commercial real estate business growth, and ways to recognise your team without losing sight of your strategic priorities. --- Find @cresuccess on Instagram and then DM us the word "GROW" to take the first step towards accelerating revenue growth in your business with the right people in your team, serving ideal clients, inside a business that just works. Visit the brand-new CRE Success website online: cresuccess.co Read the episode anecdote, get the transcript and watch the video recording of the podcast here: cresuccess.co/blog/196 To share this episode or your thoughts on it, tag us on socials: @cresuccess or use our hashtag: #cresuccess If you enjoy the show, leave us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Connect with Darren Krakowiak on LinkedIn Podcast music sourced from audioblocks.com
In this episode we speak with Mike Uchrin, CEO & Co-Founder of Monogram Health, a leading multispecialty value-based provider of in-home, evidence-based care and benefit management services for patients living with polychronic conditions, notably, chronic kidney and end stage kidney disease. Backed by Frist Cressey, Norwest, and TPG Capital, Monogram Health has numerous value-based partnerships with leading health plans, integrated delivery systems, and risk-bearing primary care platforms to care for patients across 35 states and all insurance products. Previously, Mike led the growth of Health Choice, the managed care and insurance business unit of private equity sponsored IASIS Healthcare. I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show. If you like the episode, click to follow.
Armed with an educational background in computer science and biomedical informatics, Amit Garg switched to venture capital after a long, successful career in the corporate world, which included stints at companies like Google and Samsung.And that's just the way he never planned it. That's right, the almost-doctor didn't intend to get into venture capital, and he certainly never planned on starting his own fund. He was drawn in by his innate need to build things, including relationships with people. He partnered up with his officemate from Norwest, Sanjay Rao, and the two started Tau Ventures in 2019, an AI-first, early-stage fund focused on healthcare, enterprise, and automation. Amit tells us about his very targeted approach to investing, which is different from the “spray and pray” method we've seen from friends of the pod and other investors in general. We also get to hear first-hand accounts about the importance of building trust with your investing partners and your founders. Plus, Amit gives us his take on the state of healthcare and AI and why – despite all the challenges – he's hopeful about where it's headed. Amit primarily invests $500K in Seed-stage healthcare, enterprise, and automation startups and occasionally in Series A, B, and C through Tau Ventures. Highlights:Amit turned down a spot in medical school and pivoted his original ambition to become a doctor by first joining Google, pivoting to VC, and then becoming a digital health founder.He got into the corporate side of venture capital after business school, but he never had any interest in starting his own fund. That is until his friend and former officemate convinced him that an AI-first venture fund was a great idea in 2019. Amit explains that the “why” behind his investing does come from a place of self-interest – which is much different than selfish. He feels that when he pursues and realizes his own self-interests, he can help others to the same.Why a founder shut down a company in his portfolio and why Amit decided to back him again basically the next day. How he sees the interplay between angel and institutional investors and why they're both necessary Amit's frustration with healthcare and how it fuels his passion to make it better. Plus, he explains why he keeps his focus on the three legs of the healthcare tripod. (00:00) - FIFU 11 - Amit (02:30) - Amit's journey into venture (06:08) - Why Amit likes venture capital as someone who wants to make the world better (13:01) - Memorable moments from the first conviction-driven investment: Iterative Health (19:18) - The machine gun vs. the shotgun style of investing (21:05) - Lessons from the worst investment (24:34) - Be careful who you partner with, optimize for good investors (28:22) - What the best investment with a $450M exit taught Amit (32:57) - Investing is about humans believing in humans (35:42) - The state of healthcare and AI today (46:39) - Venture vs. angels in the healthcare space (51:12) - Outcomes in the digital healthcare space are starting to behave like tradtional SAAS software outcomes (58:13) - Lighting round (01:01:51) - Takeaways
In this episode, we speak with Vijay Tella, the Co-founder and CEO of Workato, a platform for intelligent integration and workflow automation. In 2013, Workato was founded by Vijay Tella, Gautham Viswanathan, and Harish Shetty. Their intention was automating workflows through a no-code platform. Prior to Workato, Vijay was CEO of Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Workato has raised over $400 million and is backed by Battery Ventures, Altimeter, Insight Partners, Norwest, and other notable investors. I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show. If you like the episode click to follow.
Tomer Shiran is Founder of Dremio, the data lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI based on open source frameworks Apache Arrow, which the Dremio team created, and Apache Iceberg. Dremio has raised over $400M from investors including Norwest, Redpoint, Adams Street, Sapphire, Insight, and Lightspeed. They are currently valued at $2B. In this episode, we dig into Tomer's journey from MapR to Dremio, his initial vision for making the data stack more accessible, their first breakthrough with Apache Arrow and a columnar-format approach, focusing first on project-market fit before monetization, adding support for Apache Iceberg, how they're using AI to improve user experiences & more!
So teachers don't actually live at school?Join Ardin and Jonathan as they sit down with special guest Felicity Marlow, Principal of Norwest (+ Ngarra) Christian College. From working her way up from parent to Principal, Felicity shares her passion in building up the younger generation to know their God-given purpose.With over 20 years of experience in the education industry, Felicity highlights the importance of Norwest's teaching and learning framework: Building Purposeful Lives - and how it sets Norwest apart from other schools in the independent sector. Along the way she opens up about her own family and what led her to begin exploring these ideas.Tune in to hear how God can be found on every page of our life and how he often brings us back to the place where we started ... for different reasons?
Ten years ago, Irem Rami became one of the first Fellows to join StartUp Health. In her role she helped vet the very first companies to join our community. That was back when it seemed very audacious indeed to have a goal of supporting 1000 healthcare startups. A few years later and we've now welcomed 500 startups into the community and are still going strong. In that time Rami moved on, went to business school, and is now a principle health investor at Norwest, a $3B multi-stage fund. We called up Rami up for this StartUp Health NOW podcast episode to give us that decade look back – you know, it's hard to understand where you're going if you don't know where you came from. She's got a unique perspective on the durability of the StartUp Health vision and what it means to chase the same seemingly impossible dream for more than 10 years. We also wanted to hear Rami's advice for health innovators seeking to raise funds in this difficult market. She evaluates opportunities on a daily basis and had some sage advice to share for our listeners. Enjoy the episode. — Innovators: Health Transformer University fuels your health moonshot Funders: Become a Health Moonshot Champion Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox. Looking to break down health barriers? If you're an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our Health Equity Moonshot. Passionate about Type 1 diabetes? If you're an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our T1D Moonshot.
Mary Miller is the Head of Business Development within Growth Equity Investing at Norwest Venture Partners. Prior to joining Norwest in 2023, Mary was a Director at SoftBank's Vision Fund and has held a number of other positions focused on investments in consumer technology companies. First, we explore some of the administrative and investing roles that Mary has worked in as she explains how she ended up in her current role. Next, we talk about some of the advantages and opportunities that working for SoftBank's Vision Fund gave Mary as well as some of the lessons learned while working at such a large fund during the downturn of the market in 2022. After that, Mary explains a case study of the company Fanatics and explains the tremendous growth and evolution of the company over the past few years, focusing on her role in creating value for the company. Then, Mary breaks down what consumer technology is and how the industry has evolved over the recent past. Finally, we open the floor to members of the Notre Dame Venture Capital club (students who are actively trying to or already have broken into venture capital careers) to ask their insightful questions.
Dave Zilberman is a General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. Norwest Venture Partners manages more than $12.5 billion in capital. They have invested in over 600 early-to-late-stage companies, with more than 200 currently active. Dave primarily focuses on early to late-stage investments in enterprise and infrastructure—some of his portfolios include Slack, DocuSign, Amagi Corporation, and more. Before joining Norwest, Dave was the Managing Director of Comcast Ventures. You can learn more about: 1. How to identify and invest in the next generation of Slack and DocuSign 2. Investing career advice from corporate venture arm to traditional VC fund 3. How do you construct an excellent portfolio to produce good results and stay competitive? ===================== YouTube: @GraceGongCEO Newsletter: @SmartVenture LinkedIn: @GraceGong TikTok: @GraceGongCEO IG: @GraceGongCEO Twitter: @GraceGongGG ===================== Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, superstar founders, as well as well-known tech executives in silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.
In der Rubrik “Investments & Exits” begrüßen wir heute Stephan Jacquemot, Investment Partner bei TS Ventures. Stephan bespricht die Finanzierungsrunde von Habyt und Purpose Green. Habyt, ein Berliner Anbieter von flexiblem Wohnraum, hat in einer Series-C-Finanzierungsrunde 40 Millionen Euro eingeworben. Die Runde wurde von den neuen Investoren Korelya Capital und Deutsche Invest angeführt. Außerdem beteiligten sich die neuen Investoren Exor Ventures und Endeavor Catalyst sowie die bestehenden Gesellschafter P101, ITALIA500-Azimut, HV Capital, Vorwerk Ventures, Norwest, Kinnevik, Burda Principal Investments und Inveready. Habyt ist von 5.000 Einheiten in 18 Städten im letzten Jahr auf 30.000 Einheiten in über 50 Städten auf drei Kontinenten gewachsen.Das ClimateTech Purpose Green hat eine Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 3,3 Millionen Euro abgeschlossen. Investoren sind Speedinvest und Atlantic Labs. Mit den neuen Mitteln will das Berliner Unternehmen sein Team erweitern, seine Präsenz in Deutschland ausbauen und seine Dienstleistungen weiterentwickeln. Purpose Green ist auf die Dekarbonisierung des Gebäudesektors spezialisiert. Eigentümer, Hausverwaltungen und institutionelle Fonds werden bei der Sanierung und Energieberatung unterstützt.Shownotes:
Join host James Mackey and his guest, Parker Barrile, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners as they explore career progression, market dynamics, and the trials and triumphs of building thriving tech companies. Learn how market conditions and tech developments impact the HR landscape and gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by founders and investors. They open up about surviving economic downturns and the resilience required to succeed. 0:34 Parker Barrile's background 1:59 Market conditions and HR tech developments 9:07 Surviving and thriving in business20:39 Leadership and hiring during a crisis30:24 Effective strategies for hiring and recruiting Thank you to our sponsor, SecureVision, for making this show possible! Our host James Mackey Follow us:https://www.linkedin.com/company/82436841/#1 Rated Embedded Recruitment Firm on G2!https://www.g2.com/products/securevision/reviewsThanks for listening!
Paul Dix is Cofounder & CTO of open source time series data company InfluxData. The company's open source datastore, InfluxDB, has 26K stars on GitHub. InfluxData has raised over $200M from investors including Norwest, Battery, and Sapphire Ventures. In this episode, we dig into building the category of time series data, how an open source company's monetization plan should tie to fundraising, some of the hardest decisions the team had to make during InfluxData's journey so far & more!
In this episode, we speak with Rajeev Shah, the Co-Founder and CEO of Celona, the enterprise 5G company that enables a new generation of AI-powered business critical apps in the enterprise and helps organizations accelerate their digital transformation journey. Before founding Celona, Rajeev was the VP of product management and marketing for Federated Wireless, where he launched the industry's first and leading Spectrum Access System. Prior to Federated, Rajeev held multiple product management leadership positions at Aruba Networks, including creating its Cloud Wi-Fi business. Taking advantage of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum, Celona's solution architecture is designed to simplify and automate deployment of cellular wireless technology by enterprise IT organizations and managed service providers. The company was born with the idea that a combination of 5G radio technology, edge computing and machine learning software will fundamentally change how organizations work and do business. Celona is backed by Digital Bridge Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Norwest, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and other notable investors. I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show. If you like the episode, click to subscribe.
A 3-part podcast series, in partnership with OfBusiness, India's youngest profitable unicorn! Background: OfBusiness is a B2B procurement and fintech platform, which is the youngest profitable Indian unicorn that has crossed over $2 bn in revenue in FY2022-23. The 7-year-old startup which turned unicorn in July-2021 has leapfrogged with a $6+ Bn valuation, operating across 20+ countries. It has impressive backing from top global investors like TigerGlobal, Norwest, Softbank, etc. Both co-founders, Nitin Jain and Vasant Sridhar will share valuable insights based on their own journey of building OfBusiness into the profitable unicorn that it is today. The first part of this series covers: How did the idea of OfBusiness evolve? Key pain areas/challenges that founders observed in the procurement sector? Composition of their founding team and complementary skill sets? Some of the challenges founders faced in the early stages, and the way they overcame them? Advice for the founders/B2B startups that are at the initial stages? Key milestones in the early growth of OfBusiness, and how did they navigate their first fundraising?
In this episode, we speak with Sonya Brown, General Partner and Co-Head of Growth Equity at Norwest. Norwest is a leading venture and growth equity investment firm managing more than $12.5 billion in capital. Since its inception, the firm has invested in more than 650 companies and currently partners with over 200 active companies in its venture and growth equity portfolio. Sonya is focused on growth equity and buyouts investing across a wide range of sectors including consumer, retail, internet, education and business services. Her current investments include Babylist, Forum Brands, Jolyn, Junk King, Kendra Scott, Madison Reed, Senreve, and SmartSign. Before Norwest, Sonya was at Summit Partners for almost a decade. Sonya was recognized by GrowthCap as one of the Top Women Leaders in Growth Investing of 202. I am your host RJ Lumba. We hope you enjoy the show. If you like the episode, click to subscribe and drop us a comment.
Send us a Text Message.We take a look at the recent consumer pool and spa expo in Melbourne that was run in partnership by MPBAA (former SPASA Vic) and SPASA. Was is a success? What happens now?We take a look in brief at court case in NZ where a local council has been found negligent around it's barrier certifications and homeowners have been awarded damages.Plus, an interview with recently appointed Poolwerx CEO, Nic Brill. We discuss the recent investment from Norwest, consumer and industry trends and the future for Poolwerx.Ready. Set . SPLASH!For you free industry news updates and SPLASH! Magazine copy simply go to:https://www.splash.online/subscribeWith thanks to our sponsors:FluidraAIS WaterPentairHayward
Amanda Robson is a partner at Cowboy Ventures. She works with enterprise companies focusing on software infrastructure companies. She has a passion for open source companies and co-hosts the Open Source Startup Podcast. Before joining Cowboy, she was an early-stage investor at Norwest where she worked with a number of enterprise software companies including 6 River Systems, Fossa, and Dremio. She is the proud founder of Modern Angels - a community and database of 200+ female and non-binary angel investors. She also co-leads the VC Champions program for All Raise, and co-chairs NextGen Partners, an organization that helps up-and-coming investors get the support and access they need to be successful. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - How she got into VC - Open source projects - How she invests in open source companies- Software infrastructure market landscape - Investment framework - Trends in AI/ML - The role of AI in software infrastructure --------Where to find Prateek Joshi: Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: http://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi
In this episode, Scott Becker shares 12 notes & headlines on what is currently happening in the venture capital space of healthcare.A huge explosion in HC VC in 2020 and 2021. Both fundraising and investing.A significant slowdown in 2022 particularly the 2nd half of 2022.There are lots of funds that do a huge number of smaller investments. Funds like Rock Health, Arch Venture Partners, New Enterprise, 7Wire Ventures, Martin Ventures, Flare Capital, Costonoa and Khosla for example.There are also mega funds that tend to make much larger investments per deal. For example, funds like Sequoia, A16Z (Andreessen Horowitz) General Catalyst, Tiger Global, Kleiner Perkins, Norwest and more. Remiss to not mention rock star investment firms Frist Cressey and Thoma Bravo. Amazing what Bill Frist has accomplished. Bill Frist, M.D.There are an increasing number of partnerships between VC funds and health systems and payors. General Catalyst has really made great advances here. See also “Venture Capital firms are partnering with healthcare organizations to improve digital health” Forbes Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., J.D.There are also an increasing number of systems that have funded and self manage or outsource their only venture efforts. For example, Advocate Aurora Enterprises led by Scott Powder. Providence Ventures formerly led by Aaron Martin and a ton more. Kaiser Ventures et Al.Earlier Series A rounds (and seed rounds) tend to be much smaller than larger rounds.VC investing generally is more binary than PE investing. Pre Ebitda vs Post Ebitda investing. VC studies show that an overwhelming majority of profits come from 10 to 20% of investing and more than 50% of investments barely return the invested capital. Generally the earlier stage the higher risk.Healthcare venture can include several different sectors- digital health, provider health, biotech, pharma, diagnostics and devices.See Modern Healthcare opinion piece by Eric Epstein and Douglas French "Healthcare Venture Capital Potentially Peaked-Now What".See also WSJ " Digital Health Venture Funding Pulls Back From Last year".Also see Kaiser Health News "Mission and money clash in non profit hospitals' venture capital ambitions." Kaiser Health News.
The Daily Shower Thoughts podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Shower thoughts are sourced from reddit.com/r/showerthoughts [Promo] Check out the Daily Dad Jokes podcast here: https://dailydadjokespodcast.com/ Shower Thought credits: VictoryFlaky2004, GooglyEyeThing, ThePettyPilot, pauko13, UniqueCold3812, eveningsand, ShadowLord_11, Comfortable-Seat9365, Cool-Shot, SomeonePlzTurnMeOff, Grouchy-Current-8832, Fanatic_Foxx7422, iburnmyfeelsaway420, jrtrue, Dr_Photo_Popper, Slow-Razzmatazz-4005, hopefulmilk_, Roivas14, Akseium, , BattleTranny97, TreeBearOne, LiwetJared, Background-Relief-37, DVXC, Norwest, Proud_Durian_8353, WrongReviewThrowAway, jeephistorian, 25sigma, Mikey10158 Podcast links: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZNciemLzVXc60uwnTRx2e Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-shower-thoughts/id1634359309 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/daily-dad-jokes/daily-shower-thoughts iHeart: https://iheart.com/podcast/99340139/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a5a434e9-da18-46a7-a434-0437ec49e1d2/daily-shower-thoughts Website: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/dailyshowerthoughts Social media links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DailyShowerThoughtsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DailyShowerPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DailyShowerThoughtsPodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dailyshowerthoughtspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A NEW MODEL FOR HOME OWNERSHIP: Yifan Zhang, CEO & Co-Founder of Loftium Yifan Zhang is the CEO & Cofounder of Loftium, a Norwest and Threshold-backed startup that creates affordable homeownership in expensive cities through management of an onsite Airbnb. Loftium and Yifan's own experience hosting has been featured in The New York Times, and Yifan was named in Entrepreneur's “50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs”. Yifan served on former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan's Innovation Advisory Council and currently serves on Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's One Seattle Civic Partnership. She was previously named Forbes “30 under 30” as the founding CEO of top mobile fitness startup GymPact. She is a Techstars alum and current mentor. Yifan graduated magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University. Loftium is re-defining home ownership by providing buyers a home with built-in savings for a down payment. Loftium makes the American dream of homeownership possible for people that may have ordinarily been left out by buying dream homes. Host to Own clients paying Loftium 1% of their home price while generating income from hosting AirBNB guests in their homes. Learn more here. For this episode of the Impact Report Series Producer, Katie Ellman, speaks with Yifan about how Loftium is creating next-generation affordable housing in cities around the United States. ImpactReportPodcast.com
On today's episode we hear from Rick Marini. Rick is a serial entrepreneur with 25 years of operating and investing experience in the technology space. He founded and successfully sold 3 companies (Tickle, BranchOut and Talk.co). He is an active angel investor in 50 tech start-ups including 17 unicorns (including Snapchat, Reddit, Opendoor, and AngelList). In 2018, Rick was named a "Top 50 Angel Investor" by Forbes. Rick is also the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Catapult Capital - a private equity firm that focuses on transactions in the Internet, advertising, media, consumer and broader technology sectors. Full buyouts include Grindr and JibJab. Rick currently serves as the COO of Grindr and on the Board of Directors for JibJab.Rick was the Founder & CEO of BranchOut, the largest professional network leveraging the social graph with more than 800 million professional profiles. BranchOut raised $49 million in funding from Accel, Redpoint, Mayfield, Norwest and Floodgate. In 2014, BranchOut was acquired by a publicly-traded recruiting company.Rick was Founder & CEO of Talk.co, an enterprise messaging app. In 2014, Talk.co was acquired by Hearst Corporation. Rick ran the Digital Innovation Group at Hearst from 2014-2016.In 1999, Rick co-founded Tickle.com, one of the largest social media sites on the Internet. In 2002, Tickle won the “Rising Star” Webby Award as the fastest growing site on the Web. Tickle grew to more than 200 million registered users and was a top 20 Internet site. In 2004, Monster Worldwide acquired Tickle for $100 million.Beyond Rick's depth of knowledge and experience, he is an amazing human being - he generously gives his time to coach and mentor early-stage companies and is a huge advocate for new founders looking for advice, support, and investment in Silicon Valley.------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by Exitwise: https://www.exitwise.comExitwise helps business owners create the exits they deserve by assembling the best teams of industry specific, M&A experts, who will help maximize the sale of each business.How Does It Work:1. Schedule A Call: Schedule a call with one of our M&A Advisors and we'll walk you through the entire process of selling your business, from market valuations to M&A expert fees and from due diligence to the signing of your purchase agreement. We're here to answer any questions you may have.On this call, we'll want to learn about the history of the business, your financial performance, your management team and listen to your thoughts and requirements for selling the business so we can make sure to find the best M&A experts to help maximize your exit.2. Review Top Experts: Once we've had a chance to process all your business information, we'll share with you, our top choices for investment bankers, M&A attorneys, and tax accountants to help maximize the sale of your business.We'll present each M&A expert's transaction history, estimated valuation range for your business and their fee structures. Then we'll talk through the pros and cons of each choice to help you prioritize and make the best decisions.3. Negotiate & Hire: Finally, when we've narrowed it down to your top choices, we'll negotiate your engagement letter with each M&A expert to make sure fees and terms are fair for everyone. We know what to look for and we know how to keep everyone incentivized for your optimal outcome.Once your M&A experts have been selected and you're ready to move forward, we'll collect signatures and get everyone to work.
The final week of artillery fire that preceded the Canadian assault on Vimy Ridge, was an experience that German soldiers holding the ridge would never forget. Known by the Germans as "Die Liedenwoch" or "The week of suffering", one veteran stated that his experience at this time was the worst week he went through in four years of war.In this episode, we look at the Canadian preparations for the assault on Vimy Ridge, and hear about how the French experiences at Verdun drove Canadian planning. Canadian units sought to outdo each other in terms of trench raids and we hear about the disaster of the 1st March 1917, where over 600 Canadians were killed, wounded, or missing in a trench raid that went wrong from the moment it began.We hear the story of a German soldier's first encounter with a "Red Indian" and look at the contribution of indigenous Canadians to the war effort. We meet "Ducky" Norwest, a Cree Indian who became the most feared sniper on the Western Front, whose stalking skills earned him the sobriquet "The Ghost of No Man's Land". Our episode concludes with a remarkable visceral document found in German archives, written by a man who survived the week of suffering.Support the podcast:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/footstepsbloghttps://www.patreon.com/foostepsofthefallen
In this episode, let's talk about what the NDIS is, who's eligible, the application process as well as the steps to creating the NDIS plan. References: Calder, S., Ward, R., Jones, M., Johnston, J., & Claessen, M. (2018). The uses of outcome measures within multidisciplinary early childhood intervention services: A systematic review. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(22), 2599-2622. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2017.1353144. Centre for Community Child Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne (2011). DEECD early childhood intervention reform project: Literature review. Melbourne: Communications Division for Programs and Partnerships Division, Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Retrieved 7 September 2020 from http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/childhood/providers/needs/ecislitreviewsept2009.pdf. Early Childhood Intervention Australia (2018). Best practice in early childhood intervention report 2018. Norwest, NSW: ECIA. Retrieved 7 September 2020 from https://www.flipsnack.com/earlychildhoodintervention/ecia-best-practice-in-early-childhood-intervention-report-fcmf2ii51/full-view.html. Ellison, C. (2019). People living with disability: Navigating support and health systems. In E. Willis, L. Reynolds & T. Rudge (Eds), Understanding the Australian health care system (4th edn, pp. 191-207). Chatswood, NSW: Elsevier Australia. Roberts, J., Williams, K., Smith, K., & Campbell, L. (2016). Autism spectrum disorders: Evidence-based/evidence-informed good practice for supports provided to preschool children, their families and carers. Canberra: National Disability Insurance Agency. What is it and how do to get started video links; https://raisingchildren.net.au/disability/ndis/about-ndis/ndis-what-is-it- https://raisingchildren.net.au/disability/ndis/about-ndis/ndis-getting-started Let's Talk About Autism is now on Instagram. Click https://www.instagram.com/letstalkaboutautismpodcast/ to follow so you can stay tuned for new episodes, extras and much more! For more information, head over to Aspect Australia - www.autismspectrum.org.au. Disclaimer: I'm not a professional, just a student with a passion for autism.
Monica and Mike are joined by the magnificent Adam Norwest! We talk about road stories.
Elliot Shmukler, CEO and founder of Anomalo, needed a better way to monitor data quality at scale. He previously led growth teams at Wealthfront, Instacart, and LinkedIn and experienced firsthand the impact of incomplete or inaccurate data. Anomalo has now raised nearly $40M from amazing investors including Norwest, Two Sigma, and Foundation to make data problems a thing of the past.Listen and learn...What Elliot means when citing Jeff Weiner from Linkedin: "If you're launching a rocket even a one degree course change can mean you won't land on the moon."About the data quality issue nobody noticed at Instacart that impacted millions of users.How the role of the data scientist will change as AI platforms automate data quality monitoring.When there's a need for humans in the loop to override AI systems.Why every product will soon be as good at personalization as Spotify and Netflix.The number one skill every student needs to learn that will never be replaced by machines.Past episodes referenced in today's discussion:Milin Desai, Sentry CEOBarr Moses, Monte Carlo CEODerek Steer, Mode Analytics CEOPeter Fishman, Mozart Data CEOKrishna Gade, Fiddler CEOCharity Majors, Honeycomb CTO
Parker Barrile of Norwest Venture Partners joins Nick to discuss Norwest's New $3B Fund, the Effects of VC Capital Explosion, and Scaling LinkedIn's Product 20x. In this episode we cover: Norwest's Largest Ever Fund The Capital Allocator's Environment How Parker Scaled LinkedIn's Product to $2B Compelling Customer Acquisition Strategies & Much More! Missed a recent episode? Go to The Full Ratchet blog and catch up! Also, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
If you know anything about Balance then you must surely know off Richard Kan. Ever heard that massive rapturous laugh at the Norwest clinic? That's Rich. In the second last episode of the season Rich and his delightful laugh join Nick and Jac. In this episode Rich talks about his story at Balance as a practitioner in its youth he then talks about how he got to where he is now. Richard is known in the community for being a reputable and knowledgeable mentor and when talking to the boys he talks about the importance of having one himself and the relation having good mentors has on your success.Along with Mentors, mistakes are a crucial ingredient in success and Rich talks about the importance of making mistakes and how they help you fast track your growth and development. Finally the trio discuss shoulder pain and injuries, with particularly focus on a commonly under diagnosed condition.Please enjoy a fantastic podcast that not only applies to practitioners but anyone who is striving for success in their own personal field.
Ilias is a Co-Founder and Head of Product of Celential.ai, a Series A startup in Silicon Valley offering AI-powered recruitment services. Celential created a talent graph of 100M+ profiles of working professionals, focusing on 4M software engineers in North America. The talent graph uses proprietary algorithms to map professionals across the web and derives deep insights about their roles, strength, career preferences, and many more. Before Celential, Ilias was head of product and growth at Good&Co (an HR startup funded by Norwest and acquired by StepStone.com) where he built the world's first quantitative culture graph of US companies. Prior Ilias held executive and PM roles at various startups and built hit games at Zynga and Scopely. Ilias is the first Harvard graduate from Kyrgyzstan.
Erica Westbury is the Managing Director of Norwest Recruitment, a multi-award-winning business, which has also ranked 47th in the BRW Fast 100. Erica herself has previously won CEO of the Year with The Executive Connection.The recruitment industry was hit very hard in the early stages of the Covid pandemic, so this was a critical time for Erica, who really went to great lengths to protect the mental health of her staff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Topics discussed in this episode: Enterprise being SaaS by nature Solving SaaS infrastructure problems The leaky bucket of B2B and B2C The one responsibility CEO's can't forget This is a ProfitWell Recur production—the first media network dedicated entirely to the SaaS and subscription space.
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers.
Today’s episode is with Sergio Monsalve, founding partner of Roble Ventures, a seed firm based in Silicon Valley that invests in solutions that help human progress. Their portfolio includes Kahoot, Mosaic, and Dragonboat, among others. Prior to Roble, Sergio spent 14 years at one of the longest standing VC firms, Norwest Venture Partners, where he early invested in unicorns such as Udemy and Adaptive Insights. He has also held various roles in high-growth technology companies like eBay and Portal Software. He currently teaches at his alma mater, Stanford, on education and entrepreneurship. We chatted with Sergio about equity and diversity in the VC world, adapting to a smaller GP model after so much time at a large firm, and how he thinks about investing in human enablement technologies. Get on the email list at ventureunlocked.substack.com
Hear what exciting things are planned for Norwest Smart City in the coming months and yearsTim Spencer Head of Development Mulpha Norwest joins us to discuss Tune in 3pm every Thursday on our Facebook and Instagram pages to catch the latest episode while it is aired live
How do you have a budget that is driven by vision and mission rather than just by taking last years and adding a CPI increase? And what does a pledge and commitment season look like in 2021?What's the process for developing a budget that works to grow your vision each year?And how do you roll it out with your church?Plus what if the amount pledged is not enough to cover expenses?Pete Stedman is senior pastor of Norwest Anglican Church in Sydney's North West and joins us today to talk about how not to have ‘Step off a cliff and cross your fingers church budgeting.' Links: Norwest pledging strategy, Norwest 2019 pledge letter, Norwest 2020 pledge letter, Village 2020 pledge brochure, Village 2020 pledge videos, Village 2020 Intergenerational gift brochure, Village 2020 Intergenerational gift videosWatch the discussion hereSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thepastorsheart)
After the loss of her mother and father and battling COVID-19, owner and chief curator Asia Hamilton found solace in nature and wanted to bring that experience to Detroit.
Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners discusses his experience as a startup founder and his move to VC, the latest market trends, Scott's investment process, as well as qualitative and quantitative characteristics of companies he likes to invest in.Scott Beechuk's BioScott brings more than 20 years of product, engineering, and SaaS expertise to his role as a partner on Norwest's enterprise team. He focuses on early- to late-stage investment opportunities in enterprise SaaS with a focus on companies building business applications taking advantage of human-assisted AI, advanced behavioral analytics, client-agnostic platforms and industry-specific solutions. He currently serves on the boards of Bluecore, Leanplum, MindTickle, Qualified, Singular, and Socrates AI.Scott most recently served as Senior Vice President of Product Management for Salesforce Service Cloud, the industry's #1 enterprise customer service platform. While at Salesforce, he also served as Head of Engineering, Product, UX, and Documentation for Desk.com.Before joining Salesforce, Scott cut his entrepreneurial teeth building multiple consumer and enterprise software companies including a multi-brand e-commerce service with an integrated multi-channel customer service platform, an enterprise privacy middleware platform and consumer metasearch engine.Time Stamps00:10 Scott's background and why he joined Norwest Venture Partners05:18 COVID's effect on startup creation09:50 Post COVID SaaS valuations11:10 Investment Process – from sourcing to investing18:30 Qualitative and quantitative characteristics Scott is looking for in startups26:57 Common mistakes startups make32:35 Fundraising advice to founders34:32 Bonus QuestionSIGN UP at https://www.saashimi.cloud to receive transcripts of the interviews and news about upcoming guests and events.
Satya Prabhakar is the CEO of Sulekha, an Indian firm funded by GIC, Norwest and Mitsui . He worked at Honeywell as an engineer and AT&T as a business manager before founding Sulekha with Sangeeta Kshettry. Having been a founder for over a decade in the Indian Startup Ecosystem, he brings insights about working with SMBs, the secret to a long living business, building for Bharath and more in this episode. Some Key highlights in this episode are: Working with SMBs Building a sustainable business with profits Evolution of the Indian Startup Ecosystem Connect with Satya Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/in/satyaprabhakar ----------- Found this episode informative? Let us know by clicking the like button and share with your friends. Connect with Us: Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message
Asia Hamilton of Norwest Gallery, shares how her experience as an artist led her to create a platform to showcase artists of color and exhibit their work.
Why is Amit Garg, Managing Partner at Tau Ventures bullish on healthcare AI? 'A lot of treatments were POSSIBLE before AI, but not PLAUSIBLE...' View video --> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamfodonnell_why-is-amit-garg-managing-partner-at-tau-activity-6757329005181067265-VZLH
Why Listen Vincent's story is pretty much the opposite of the standard entrepreneurial success story you hear. Yes - he has experienced incredible success - his company, VisitPay, now has over 100 employees, 3 of his 7 C-Suite executives are Service Academy graduates, and he has received over $26M in funding from some of the best investors in the world, like Norwest. However, where his story differs is that this didn't happen overnight. Vincent has been at this for nearly 12 years. His success didn't come all at once, it came through a sustained effort over a decade. What I love most about Vincent's story is how he elegantly merged two vital aspects of entrepreneurship that - to me - often seem to be complete opposite skill sets - that of rapidly iterating (building, learning, and reacting as quickly as possible to feedback from customers), and at an opposite extreme, building for scale (slowing down to build things properly so that it can sustain the load of a massive influx of customers). I learned so much from my conversation with Vincent and hope you will too. Vincent Vincent Martino is the Co-Founder of VisitPay, a company he started nearly 12 years ago that now has over 100 employees and has raised $26M in funding from top notch investors like Norwest. 3 of his 7 C-Suite executives are Service Academy Grads. His journey started at the Naval Academy, included five years in the Marine Corps, followed by an MBA at the Wharton School, and includes work at Dynamicsoft, Capital One, COO at Balihoo and co-authoring the book, The Marine Corps Way.
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On this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show, host Grace Ormsby is joined by Dylan Whalan, a 21-year-old university student who has just purchased his first property. Dylan took advantage of the HomeBuilder grants and stamp duty subsidies currently on offer, and the fact that he has already locked in employment for 2021 to buy an apartment in a new Norwest development. The soon-to-be graduate chats to Grace about how COVID-19 very much accelerated his decision to buy, why procrastination can prevent good investment decisions being made, how his university education made him more aware of the importance of investing and why budgeting is vital for young property purchasers. If you like this episode, show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (The Smart Property Investment Show) and by following Smart Property Investment on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you have any questions about what you heard today, any topics of interest you have in mind, or if you'd like to lend your voice to the show, email editor@smartpropertyinvestment.com.au for more insights!
With the pandemic impacting so many aspects of our daily lives – both personally and professionally – I was curious to find out how it is effecting how things in the venture capital space. And last week I had the opportunity to speak with Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. Norwest is a leading venture and growth equity investment firm managing more than $9.5 billion in capital, and Scott focuses on early- to late-stage investment opportunities in enterprise SaaS with a focus on companies building business applications taking advantage of human-assisted AI, advanced behavioral analytics, client-agnostic platforms and industry-specific solutions. Scott shared how his experience as an entrepreneur and later at Salesforce as SVP in product management has helped shape his approach to being a VC, and how COVID-19 has impacted how he operates.
Symmetrical Dumpster PC Stacking, just like the Norwest mass turbulence of 1984. Dave’s been dumpster diving again for small form factor PC’s. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1342-symmetrical-dumpster-pc-stacking/
Lanham Napier of BuildGroup joins Nick to discuss Scaling Rackspace, The Evolving Responsibilities of a Venture-Backed CEO, and Confronting Big Tech Monopolies. In this episode, we cover: You took on capital from Seqouia, Norwest and others while at Rackspace. What was the biggest challenge to taking on venture capital? How were you able to move from the early product-market-fit days to true scale... what were the defining decisions/actions that helped you expand exponentially? As a company leaves the product-market-fit stage and reaches scale, what is the job of the CEO or how does the job of the CEO change as the company scales? You've talked about investing "long-term capital"... what do you mean by that? How have you created a fee-light model, where management fees are eliminated? How do you guide CEOs that have been conditioned to think in 12-18 months cycles, when the long-game is much more critical? You've hired and developed a lot of folks over the years. What advice do you have for young CEOs with regards to selection and/or development of people? Leadership -- great ones emerge in hard times. What are some of the most important lessons you've learned about leadership? We're in an environment where the largest tech companies have monopolized a lot of the upside in the market. Of course recently many of the CEOs appeared in front the house judiciary committee. Where do you stand on the position of large tech companies and how that impacts emerging startups? Do you think China is a threat to the U.S.'s position as world power and tech leader? What would suggest we do about it?
Dr. Hayley Chartrand from Norwest Co-op Community Health discusses her two current roles supporting youth, how Norwest is supporting the community and her own career journey with YES Employment Facilitator Melissa.Our theme music is by Nathan Crowe.
Today's guest is Trevor Robson from Norwest Chiropractic. In this cool chat Trevor breaks some of the old myths that some people have about chiropractors and shares his approach on a combined approach to treating chronic problems. Well worth the listen and your time. If you like the show, please rate, review and share with your friends. If you know a dad who'd make a great guest, or you'd like to be interviewed yourself to share the story of your family and your business, please email daniel@dpmtransformation.com.
How are different arts organizations around Detroit celebrating Black History Month? Edward Foxworth of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History talks about their exhibits, and Asia Hamilton discusses the HAIRarchy exhibit at the Norwest Gallery of Art.
Open Studio: Conversations on Art w/Graves+Mallett Art Solutions
Today on Open Studio: Conversations on Art, GMAS sits down with Asia Hamilton, artist and founder of Norwest Gallery of Art in Detroit, MI, on the eve of the gallery’s two-year anniversary. Asia shared some of her early days of collaborating with “Dopest Ethiopian Collective”, dedicating her current exhibition “Hair-Archy” to her legendary father who was a hair giant in Detroit and around the world, and why she stays focused on giving artist opportunities to have a place to showcase their work!
In this episode, Tej Singh interviews Brad Hargreaves, the Founder and CEO of Common Living, a company that is dedicated to making housing better by providing convenient, community-minded shared homes. Since opening its first home in 2015, Common has grown to over 650 members in five cities. It has raised over $63M from investors like 8VC and Norwest. Before starting Common, Brad founded General Assembly, a global education institution, and was a Venture Partner at Maveron, General Assembly's lead investor.
Memphis Meats, a developer of technologies to manufacture meat, seafood and poultry from animal cells, has raised $161 million in financing from investors including Softbank Group, Norwest and Temasek, the investment fund backed by the government of Singapore. The investment brings the company's total financing to $180 million.
Asia Hamilton is an artist and entrepreneur who has become an anchor for the city’s art and culture scene through her gallery in Grandmont Rosedale. And now she’s taking the conversation about the value of arts and culture to city hall.
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This week Kate was in China, so TechCrunch's Danny Crichton and Alex took the helm while she was out grilling Lime. So, with our producer (the excellent Mr. Gates) in San Francisco and Danny in New York and Alex in the provinces, we got into the following to start:Jetpack Aviation and it’s seed round to build a flying motorcycle, because of course why notAn endurance racing startup raising money from Usain BoltNorwest’s mega new $2B fundEQT’s mega new $750 million rumored European growth fundAnd a new round for Peanut, the social network for mothersPivoting into the biggest news from the week, 1Password raised a comically-large $200 million Series A round of funding. The firm quite obviously hadn't raised much capital before but had grown to be quite large. Hence the large check. Recall that Series A really means a company's first institutional round, not a specific dollar range.Next we discussed DoorDash and its possible $100 million add-on to its $600 million round from earlier this year. The new capital should keep the on-demand technology company's valuation pegged just above where it was set during its preceding round. So, a down round this is not.Meanwhile, Docker received a $35M investment from Benchmark and sold much of its business to Marantis, which has all the appearances of a recap for the formerly high-flying unicorn.What else? JUUL is laying off staff, WeWork is still losing an ocean of dollars, and Line is partnering up with Yahoo Japan.
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This week Kate was in China, so TechCrunch's Danny Crichton and Alex took the helm while she was out grilling Lime. So, with our producer (the excellent Mr. Gates) in San Francisco and Danny in New York and Alex in the provinces, we got into the following to start:Jetpack Aviation and it’s seed round to build a flying motorcycle, because of course why notAn endurance racing startup raising money from Usain BoltNorwest’s mega new $2B fundEQT’s mega new $750 million rumored European growth fundAnd a new round for Peanut, the social network for mothersPivoting into the biggest news from the week, 1Password raised a comically-large $200 million Series A round of funding. The firm quite obviously hadn't raised much capital before but had grown to be quite large. Hence the large check. Recall that Series A really means a company's first institutional round, not a specific dollar range.Next we discussed DoorDash and its possible $100 million add-on to its $600 million round from earlier this year. The new capital should keep the on-demand technology company's valuation pegged just above where it was set during its preceding round. So, a down round this is not.Meanwhile, Docker received a $35M investment from Benchmark and sold much of its business to Marantis, which has all the appearances of a recap for the formerly high-flying unicorn.What else? JUUL is laying off staff, WeWork is still losing an ocean of dollars, and Line is partnering up with Yahoo Japan.
Two years after the Los Angeles-based fintech startup Dave launched with a suite of money management tools to save consumers from overdraft fees, the company is now worth $1 billion thanks to a nascent banking practice that had investors lining up.
The Project EGG Show: Entrepreneurs Gathering for Growth | Conversations That Change The World
Dror brings to Norwest more than 20 years of operational, technology and entrepreneurial experience, having worked extensively in both the U.S. and in Israel in various senior positions at leading global organizations. Dror most recently invested in and serves on the boards of CyberX, Cynet, Gong, Personali, SundaySky, VAST Data, Weka.IO, and Wiliot. Dror has served as a board member of Veraz Networks since 2004. Dror was a previous board participant at Fireglass (acquired by Symantec), Pontis (acquired by Amdocs), ScaleIO (acquired by EMC), Seculert (acquired by Radware), SolarEdge (Nasdaq: SEDG) Unisfair (acquired by InterCall), and Velostrata (acquired by Google) and was a board observer for ConteXtream (acquired by HP). At Norwest, Dror focuses on multi-stage (seed to pre-IPO) and multi-domain (enterprise, cloud, consumer, semi) investments in Israel. Prior to joining Norwest, Dror served as executive vice president and Chief Strategy Officer of ECI, which he joined in 2004. In this role, he was responsible for ECI's strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business development, and strategic marketing. Before joining ECI, Dror was CEO of Axonlink, an optical components start-up company. Prior to Axonlink, he was President of I-Link, a US-based VoIP service provider which acquired MiBridge, the VoIP software company he founded. Dror was also a senior research engineer at AT&T Bell Labs where he developed voice and video compression technologies, including the speech coder that is now the standard for CDMA cellular in North America. Dror holds a BSc in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. About The Project EGG Show: The Project EGG Show is a video talk show that introduces you to entrepreneurs from around the world. It is broadcast from studios in Metairie, Louisiana to online platforms including YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and Stitcher, and hosted by Ben Gothard. Our goal is to give you a fresh, unscripted and unedited look into the lives of real entrepreneurs from around the globe. From billionaires to New York Times best selling authors to Emmy Award winners to Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients to TEDx speakers – we present their real stories – uncensored and uncut. Subscribe To The Show: https://projectegg.co/podcast/ Get Access To: 1. Resources: https://projectegg.co/resources/ 2. Financing Solutions: https://projectegg.co/epoch/ 3. Payment Solutions: https://projectegg.co/sempr/ 4. Services: https://projectegg.co/resources#services 5. Courses: https://projectegg.co/resources#courses 6. Software: https://projectegg.co/resources#software 7. Book: https://projectegg.co/resources#books --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/projectegg/support
Barry talks with Norwest Minerals (ASX:NWM) CEO, Charles Schaus.
The Detroit Art Week exhibit opening Friday examines how we present ourselves on dating apps — and how we deal with the bad experiences.
Amit Bendov is the Founder and CEO @ Gong.io, the startup that provides you with powerful visibility into your customer conversations with conversation intelligence. To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments and Wing Venture Capital just to name a few. As for Amit, prior to founding Gong, Amit was the CEO @ SiSense BI software that enables business users to connect to multiple databases of any size. Before that Amit was the CMO @ Panaya, helping companies that use SAP or Oracle to reduce 80% of their ERP upgrade. Finally before that Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Amit made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found Gong, the leader in conversational intelligence driving deal conversion and rep success? How does Amit approach the process of idea validation? What can founders do to make sure their idea is a hit before they start work on it? How many customer conversations should they have? What questions are crucial to ask? What are the answers they want to hear? What is enough proof that there is a ready and willing customer base for this idea? With many products starting as free, how does Amit think about when is the right time to start charging for your product? What does Amit think about the differing variable price mechanisms that one can choose? How does one have a variable pricing mechanism without disincentivizing users to use the product? What does Amit advise founders should charge in the early days? Should they leave money on the table? How does Amit think about monthly/vs annual deals? What are the core benefits and drawbacks of each? How important is it that multi-year deals are paid upfront? What must you account for with regards to multi-year deals? How do you know when you have the right pricing mechanism in place from the sales cycles of the reps? 60 Second SaaStr: What does Amit know now that he wishes he had known in the beginning? The hardest role to hire for today? The hardest element of Amit’s role as CEO of Gong? SDR is the most important function in the sales org, agree or not and why? Read the full transcript on our blog. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Amit Bendov
Life’s too short to not be passionate about what you do. Trying lots of things in your 20s. How to succeed in venture and important advice for your first year on the job.
This episode we talk to our friend and Chiropractor James. James works at Balance Health & Performance in Bondi and Norwest. We talk about his approach to treating clients and how Balance differs from your standard clinic.
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Connie Loizos and I were joined by Norwest's Scott Beechuk. Sadly, Matthew Lynley was reading slam poetry to ambivalent cacti in the Sonora Desert and thus couldn't join us. He'll be back soon, we promise. But we had a good crew on deck and a grip of news to sift, so let's get to what we got into.
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Connie Loizos and I were joined by Norwest’s Scott Beechuk. Sadly, Matthew Lynley was reading slam poetry to ambivalent cacti in the Sonora Desert and thus couldn’t join us. He’ll be back soon, we promise. But we had a good crew on deck and a grip of news to sift, so let’s get to what we got into. First up was the latest headlines in the on-demand transportation sector. Lyft raised a huge new pile of cash at a staggering valuation, Uber got the go-ahead to operate once more in the great city of London, and Bird’s $300 million round officially closed. So that’s another $900 million for domestic transportation-sharing, at least, in a single week. Right. Next up Sequoia’s epic new $6 billion in fresh capital. Recall the famous line about a million dollars not being cool, but a billion dollars being cool? Sadly a billion dollars isn’t cool, 2012 Andreessen Horowitz. But maybe $6 billion is cool. At least 2018 Sequoia thinks so. (Good luck returning a multiple of that figure!) Speaking of a16z, that shop has a new vehicle in the market focused on the crypto space. With $300 million ready to go and no 20 percent cap on crypto investments, a16z can now do what it wants inside of the surprisingly-still-nascent space. All that and we tried to squeeze AppNexus into the show. (Update: We failed!) Stay cool and we’ll see you in a week!
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Connie Loizos and I were joined by Norwest’s Scott Beechuk. Sadly, Matthew Lynley was reading slam poetry to ambivalent cacti in the Sonora Desert and thus couldn’t join us. He’ll be back soon, we promise. But we had a good crew on deck and a grip of news to sift, so let’s get to what we got into. First up was the latest headlines in the on-demand transportation sector. Lyft raised a huge new pile of cash at a staggering valuation, Uber got the go-ahead to operate once more in the great city of London, and Bird’s $300 million round officially closed. So that’s another $900 million for domestic transportation-sharing, at least, in a single week. Right. Next up Sequoia’s epic new $6 billion in fresh capital. Recall the famous line about a million dollars not being cool, but a billion dollars being cool? Sadly a billion dollars isn’t cool, 2012 Andreessen Horowitz. But maybe $6 billion is cool. At least 2018 Sequoia thinks so. (Good luck returning a multiple of that figure!) Speaking of a16z, that shop has a new vehicle in the market focused on the crypto space. With $300 million ready to go and no 20 percent cap on crypto investments, a16z can now do what it wants inside of the surprisingly-still-nascent space. All that and we tried to squeeze AppNexus into the show. (Update: We failed!) Stay cool and we’ll see you in a week!
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Scott brings over 20 years of deep product management, engineering, and SaaS expertise to his role as a partner on Norwest enterprise team. Scott most recently served as Senior Vice President of Product Management for Salesforce Service Cloud. While at Salesforce, he also served as Head of Engineering, Product, UX, and Documentation for Desk.com.
Jon Lee is the Founder & CEO @ ProsperWorks, the #1 recommended CRM for G Suite. To date, ProsperWorks have raised over $85m in VC funding from the likes of True Ventures, Norwest, GV, Bloomberg Beta and more incredible names. As for Jon, prior to ProsperWorks, he started in investment banking at Merrill Lynch before moving to run a large operations team at Yahoo. Jon then founded Bazaar Advertising Solutions, a business self funded from a Palo Alto apartment that Jon scaled into a highly profitable $47m business in less than 2 years. Jon then sold Bazaar to Epic Media in 2006. Following the acquisition, Jon founded DNA Games, the number one casino simulation game on Facebook with more than 20 million players, ultimately acquired by Zynga in May 2011. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: How Jon made his way into the world of CRM having successfully founded and sold 2 prior business in the lead gen and gaming space? Why does Jon believe building a SaaS business is very much like building a gaming business? How does on think about the scaling of company culture with the scaling of headcount? Where does Jon see the inflection points where this culture starts to break down? What does Jon mean when he suggests “the importance of a culture of innovation”? Why does Jon believe it is so important to insert a culture of risk into the organisation? How does this risk mindset differ and look across different segments of the business? How does Jon aim to create a culture of risk and ambition without a fear of failure and not hitting targets? Why does Jon think it is always better to start in SMB and move to enterprise? How does this decision change how one thinks about product roadmap? How does this change how one approaches traction building ahead of fundraising? What should one look to learn from rapid iteration and testing before moving to the enterprise market? 60 Second SaaStr? What does Jon know now that he wishes he had known at the beginning? What keeps Jon up at night? What is Jon’s favourite SaaS reading material? Read the full transcript on our blog. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Jon Lee
Medtech and Digital Health technology increasingly have more and more in common. In this Medtech Talk Podcast, Robert Mittendorff, MD, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners, explains how Digital Health companies are facing many of the same challenges that vex Medtech start-ups, including the need to obtain approval under new FDA guidelines and to secure reimbursement payments from insurers
How can you run a marketing department with 2 people and satisfy a sales team of 50? What are the 3 marketing categories you should know about? What goes into a Competitive Battlecard? In this week’s episode of SaaS Insider, Adam Stein, the founder of APS Marketing, and the host Shira Abel discuss product marketing, solving problems for customers, and getting a sales team to buy in. About Adam Stein • APS Marketing and Adam’s marketing leadership of more than 20 years both center on building underlying differentiated product messaging strategy, hands-on writing, and program development. These three ingredients scale category development and high performance content syndication. He’s undertaken marketing strategy and programs that strategically develop and deliver revenue at growth firms fortunate to expand into category leaders including MobileIron, Broadcom (Epigram), Cisco, Fortinet and Juniper. He helped build many of these award-winning marketing teams from day one by partnering with leading VCs including Accel, Benchmark, Foundation, Mohr Davidow, Norwest, Redpoint, Sequoia and Storm. • Adam founded APS Marketing in 2015 to offer Product marketing as a Service for content creation, marketing planning and ROI program development. He focuses on client needs in Big Data, enterprise software, networking, security, semiconductors and mobility. Services APS Marketing offers include defining a measurable B2B Marketing strategy and industry-relevant content. The results deliver revenue-driven goals including sales & product marketing content creation and the implementation of global GTM programs. Key Takeaways: • If there is a shift in your industry and you have to cannibalize one of your own products, do it before somebody else will. • Product Marketing defines what your services are, their benefits for a customer, and how you’re better from your competitors. You need to make it easy for people to understand what problem you’re solving in order to make a sale. • In order for your marketing strategy to work, all three marketing categories have to be aligned. Please rate this podcast. About Shira Abel Shira Abel is the CEO and Lead Strategist at Hunter & Bard (http://www.hunterandbard.com), a PR, marketing and design agency. Clients include: Folloze, Totango, Cyara, Sarine Technologies, Pushbullet, AXA Tech, CloudEndure, Pitango VC, Allianz, and more. Creator and host of the SaaS Insider podcast. Mentor at 500 Startups. Former professor of Marketing for Startups at Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College. MBA from Kellogg School of Management. Loves family time, cooking, and traveling. Hates writing about herself in the third person. She lives with her husband, teen and tween sons and a very large Great Pyrenees. If you would like to be interviewed on SaaS Insider - please contact Shira at the URL above. The SaaS Insider podcast is brought to you by Hunter & Bard, an agency specializing in PR, design, branding, and marketing strategy – helping SaaS companies develop mindshare. It’s also a member of the C-Suite Radio Network. Check out Hunter & Bard today at http://hunterandbard.com Tags and Keywords: product marketing, sales, software business Facebook Status: Adam Stein and @shiraabel discuss product marketing and providing sales teams with the right tools on this week’s episode of #SaaSInsider. They talk about the right time to cannibalize your own product and defining what your benefits for a customer are. Twitter Status: @apstein2 and @shiraabel discuss product marketing and providing sales teams with the right tools on this week’s episode of #SaaSInsider.
Chef Grant Michell from the Norwest Co-op Community Food Centre who will be working alongside a rock star line up of other talented chefs next Wednesday June 14th at the Qualico Family Centre at Assiniboine Park for the Art of Good Food. Join us for a night of creative artistry as Winnipeg's most talented chefs and artists come together to create delicious food tastings, and a live art auction in support of the Norwest Co-op Community Food Centre. Chefs will include... Ben Kramer – ChefBenKramer.comKelly Cattani – Hilton HotelKristen Chemerika-Lew & Kyle Lew – ChewTalia Syrie – The Tallest PoppyAaron Epp – PEG Beer Co.Norm Pastorin – CornerstoneHeiko Duehrsen – Assiniboine Park ConservancyGrant Mitchell – NorWest Co-op Community Food CentreMandel Hitzer – deer + almond. Tickets on sale at norwest.ticketbud.com. #winnipegfood#themainingredient #680cjob
Robert Mittendorff, MD, MBA, Principal at Norwest Venture Partners discusses how he brings his experience as a physician to his role at Norwest, top digital health themes to get excited about and tips for entrepreneurs pitching VC's. GUEST: Robert Mittendorff, Norwest Venture Partners HOST: Steven Krein LOCATION: Wearable Tech + Digital Health Conference 2015, New York, NY IN THIS EPISODE: Medicine and Venture Capitalism What Makes Norwest Venture Partners Unique? Common Mistakes + Tips for Entrepreneurs Pitching to Investors
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