Lisa Wu
Partner at Norwest Venture Partners
Lisa Wu
Partner at Norwest Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Capital
2012 - Current
Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Board Member
2021
Flyhomes provides a real estate brokerage platform that helps clients through the entire home buying process.
Raised $310,000,000.00 from Canvas Ventures, Parker89, Vesta Ventures, Fifth Wall, BAM Elevate, Spencer Rascoff, Battery Ventures, Camber Creek, Balyasny Asset Management and Andreessen Horowitz.
Investor
2020
Calm offers a global health and wellness brand application designed to help its users meditate and relax.
Raised $218,043,000.00 from BluePointe Ventures.
Investor
2018
https://medium.com/@lwu828/plaid-powering-the-modernization-of-fintech-67cd6919a05b
Plaid provides companies with the tools and access needed for the development of a digitally-enabled financial system.
Raised $734,300,000.00 from Bedrock, American Express Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Silver Lake, Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Raed Malek, Index Ventures and Spark Capital.
Board Member
2016
https://medium.com/norwest-venture-partners/from-seed-to-series-a-taking-a-look-at-ritual-9569969e07e5
Board Observer
2015
Acquired by Walmart for $3.3B https://medium.com/@lwu828/the-jet-journey-why-norwest-got-on-board-a96f416d9723
Jet operates an e-commerce platform that allows its member to shop online from various retailers.
Raised $570,000,000.00 from Alibaba Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Fidelity, Palm Drive Capital, Forerunner and Bain Capital Ventures.
Board Observer
2016 - 2018
IPO in 2020
Opendoor is a real estate technology company that simplifies the process of buying and selling homes.
Raised $1,887,930,000.00 from BlackRock and Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP).
Worldwide Corporate Development
2011 - 2011
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Venture Capital
2007 - 2010
BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.
Investment Banking
2005 - 2006
The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.