Dave Zilberman

General Partner, Norwest

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 33 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jun 2026
Generalist is an AI robotics company building general intelligence for the physical world and making it useful to everyone. The founding team includes engineers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Boston Dynamics. The company embraces both large-scale AI and robotics as core to its DNA.
Board Member
Mar 2026
Natoma, now a part of Snowflake, enables enterprises to adopt AI agents securely. The platform empowers organizations to unlock the full power of AI by connecting agents to their tools and data without compromising security. Leveraging a hosted MCP platform, Natoma provides enterprise-grade authentication, fine-grained authorization, and governance for AI agents with flexible deployment models and out-of-the-box support for 100+ pre-built MCP servers. Founded by a team of experts from Okta, Microsoft, Google, & Salesforce, and backed by Greylock, Index, and prominent industry leaders.
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Nov 2025
ORION prevents data loss by analyzing data in motion with context-aware, proprietary AI agents, significantly reducing operational overhead and false positives while drastically increasing the number of real incidents detected and prevented.
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Feb 2025
The data framework for LLMs Python: Github: https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index Docs: https://docs.llamaindex.ai/ Typescript/Javascript: Github: https://github.com/run-llama/LlamaIndexTS Docs: https://ts.llamaindex.ai/ Other: Discord: discord.gg/dGcwcsnxhU LlamaHub: llamahub.ai Twitter: https://twitter.com/llama_index Blog: blog.llamaindex.ai #ai #llms #rag
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Oct 2024
Multi-Instance Management Platform for ServiceNow xtype empowers ServiceNow platform teams to innovate faster, govern multiple instances, shrink the backlog, ensure compliance, and reduce operational risk.
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Jul 2024
Heeler combines context-aware threat modeling, lifecycle management, and response orchestration to identify high-impact risks earlier, reduce late-stage vulnerabilities, and lower remediation costs. Today, AppSec teams face significant challenges as prioritizing vulnerabilities, conducting impact analysis, performing threat modeling, and guiding developers are inefficient and ad hoc tasks without this unified context. Our patent-pending ProductDNA technology automates these high-friction and expensive tasks and integrates seamlessly into existing workflows. By combining foundational AppSec capabilities with deep runtime context and response orchestration Heeler provides a transformational impact unattainable with today’s solutions. As a result, Heeler enhances developers security impact and ensures applications are secure, resilient, and ready for future threats.
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Jan 2024
Veza is the leader in identity security, helping organizations secure access across the enterprise. Veza’s Access Platform goes beyond identity governance and administration (IGA) tools to visualize, monitor, and control entitlements so that organizations can stay compliant and achieve least privilege. Global enterprises like Wynn Resorts, Expedia, and Blackstone trust Veza to manage identity security use cases, including privileged access monitoring, non-human identity (NHI) security, access entitlement management, data system access, SaaS access security, IAM hygiene, identity security posture management (ISPM), and next-generation IGA. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures (GV), NEA, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures.
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Dec 2023
Towering Visions to assist customers with their growth today and into the future
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Oct 2022
At Diagrid, our focus is on application developers. We want developers to build amazing applications and offload the hard distributed systems problems when building resilient services. Diagrid's mission is to boost developer productivity by providing tools and APIs for building cloud native applications.
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Jul 2022
Turso is a Rust-based, cloud-native rewrite of SQLite, built for modern, data-driven applications. It brings async performance, improved concurrency, and the reliability of advanced testing, with the openness of true community collaboration.
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Jul 2022
The data warehouse built for getting answers from your data. Works with AI agents and SQL alike. Built in collaboration with the folks at DuckLabs.
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Nov 2021
Collaborative Intelligence for Decentralized Data
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Aug 2020
Split gives you the confidence to release features that matter, fast. We are the only feature management and experimentation platform that automatically attributes data-driven insight to every feature that’s released–all while enabling astoundingly easy deployment, profound risk reduction, and better visibility across teams. Split is more than a tool. Its a partnership. There’s a customer success team to support you, an online education platform to help you learn as you go, and a developer-oriented culture that puts you at the center. With Split, rediscover your joy for building software and breakthrough without code breaks. To move fast without breaking things or burning out teams, switch on a free account today, schedule a demo to learn more, or contact us for further questions and support.
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Sep 2019
HYPR, the leader in passwordless identity assurance, delivers the industrys most comprehensive end-to-end identity security for your workforce and customers. By unifying phishing-resistant passwordless authentication, adaptive risk mitigation, and automated identity verification, HYPR ensures secure and seamless user experiences for everyone. Trusted by organizations worldwide, including two of the four largest US banks, leading manufacturers, and critical infrastructure companies, HYPR secures some of the most complex and demanding environments globally, showcasing our commitment to innovation and security excellence.
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Jan 2019
Aporeto Zero Trust Cloud Security platform is built for cloud native apps, simplifies hybrid cloud security, and delivers security at the speed of DevOps with application identity, not IP addresses. Distributed firewall for cloud-native and hybrid cloud applications removes security barriers to cloud adoption. Uniform cloud workload security and identity model for heterogeneous infrastructure without relying on IP addresses. Remove security friction with DevOps automation of virtual security zones for cloud-native, hybrid infrastructure. Visit aporeto.com for a free trial
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2026
Investor
Jun 2026
Generalist is an AI robotics company building general intelligence for the physical world and making it useful to everyone. The founding team includes engineers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Boston Dynamics. The company embraces both large-scale AI and robotics as core to its DNA.
Board Member
Mar 2026
Natoma, now a part of Snowflake, enables enterprises to adopt AI agents securely. The platform empowers organizations to unlock the full power of AI by connecting agents to their tools and data without compromising security. Leveraging a hosted MCP platform, Natoma provides enterprise-grade authentication, fine-grained authorization, and governance for AI agents with flexible deployment models and out-of-the-box support for 100+ pre-built MCP servers. Founded by a team of experts from Okta, Microsoft, Google, & Salesforce, and backed by Greylock, Index, and prominent industry leaders.
2025
Board Member
Nov 2025
ORION prevents data loss by analyzing data in motion with context-aware, proprietary AI agents, significantly reducing operational overhead and false positives while drastically increasing the number of real incidents detected and prevented.
Board Member
Feb 2025
The data framework for LLMs Python: Github: https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index Docs: https://docs.llamaindex.ai/ Typescript/Javascript: Github: https://github.com/run-llama/LlamaIndexTS Docs: https://ts.llamaindex.ai/ Other: Discord: discord.gg/dGcwcsnxhU LlamaHub: llamahub.ai Twitter: https://twitter.com/llama_index Blog: blog.llamaindex.ai #ai #llms #rag
2024
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Oct 2024
Multi-Instance Management Platform for ServiceNow xtype empowers ServiceNow platform teams to innovate faster, govern multiple instances, shrink the backlog, ensure compliance, and reduce operational risk.
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