Jon Kossow

Managing Partner at Norwest

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this quarter
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Board Member
Aug 2025
Frontline combines wildfire tracking software, satellite connectivity, and onsite sprinkler hardware to protect any building from wildfire. During the 2025 Los Angeles fires, 96% of homes equipped with Frontline systems survived. Proving our layered, active strategy works even under the harshest conditions. Designed for wildfire-prone communities, our Defense System 2 targets the top threat to homes: windblown embers. It delivers continuous remote protection through a combination of rooftop sprinklers, firefighting foam, real-time monitoring, and backup connectivity. Frontline empowers homeowners, builders, insurers, and agencies to move from reactive firefighting to proactive defense. Making it possible for communities to live safely alongside wildfire.
Investor
Mar 2023
Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software businesses, their employees, and customers to preserve the legacy of founders, while helping grow the business into the future. We are on a mission to acquire, build and grow great software businesses that have dominant positions in niche markets all over the world. Today Banyan has over 750 employees throughout the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Founded in 2016 with permanent capital to preserve the legacy of founders, Banyan focuses on a buy, hold and grow for life strategy. For more information on Banyan Software, Inc. visit: http://www.banyansoftware.com What We Look For: - Great enterprise software businesses that have dominant positions in niche markets - We work with owners who are thinking about an exit today or further down the road - We are flexible and can be creative when we find a business that is a good fit - The businesses in the Banyan family all share a similar profile: - Annual revenues in excess of $2M-$30M - A high percentage of recurring revenue - Positive operating margins and cash flow - High customer retention and satisfaction - Happy and committed employees
Board Member
Aug 2019
Vuori makes premium performance apparel inspired by the active Coastal California lifestyle; an integration of fitness, surf, sport, and art. Breaking down the boundaries of traditional activewear, we are a new perspective on performance apparel.
Board Member
May 2019
YipitData is the market-leading data and analytics firm. We analyze billions of data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights across industries, including consumer brands, technology, software, and healthcare. Our insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean, and analyze the data that many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on. We raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation over $1B, further accelerating our growth and market impact. We have been recognized multiple times as one of Inc’s Best Workplaces. As a fast-growing company backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners, YipitData is driven by a people-first culture rooted in mastery, ownership, and transparency.  With offices in New York, Austin, Miami, Denver, Mountain View, Seattle, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Singapore, we continue to expand our reach and impact across global markets. YipitData is hiring. Come join the future of data-driven market research: yipitdata.com/careers
Investor
Apr 2019
Appriss provides proprietary data and analytics solutions to effectively and efficiently address safety, fraud, risk and compliance issues for government and commercial enterprises worldwide. We are a team of technology and data science experts that are driven to solve complex business and societal problems. Our customers are leading commercial enterprises, information service providers and government agencies with focus in retail, healthcare and public safety. For more information visit Apprisscorp.com.
Board Member
Oct 2016
Verisk Marketing Solutions (formerly Jornaya, Infutor and Contact State) helps marketers create exceptional experiences for their consumers by targeting the right person, with the right message, at the right time. Our solutions are designed to help maintain a real-time view of customers and prospects as those consumer profiles and behaviors are continuously changing. We do this with the highest standards for data security and respect for the consumer’s privacy. As the consumer insights and data business unit of Verisk, VMS specializes in the critical, ongoing expense categories that every adult consumer in the United States manages day in and day out: Insurance and Loans. And we have tremendous depth, distinctive attributes, and behavioral signals for: ● Auto, Home, Life & Health Insurance ● Home Lending ● Real Estate & Home Services ● Automotive ● Higher Education Marketers and customers who engage with us experience: ● Lead generation program ROI improvement ● Better customer acquisition & retention outcomes ● Real-time insights (from 55k comparison shopping sites) ● Intelligence on cross-sell opportunities ● Improved reputation and financial risk management Having operated for the last 20 years as an OEM to other consumer insights and data providers, we have deep expertise partnering and empowering the technology platforms that brands and end users are invested in to manage, own, operate and protect consumer data.
Board Member
Dec 2012
Avetta is building the connections that build the world. Avetta provides a cloud-based supply chain risk management and commercial marketplace platform. Our global solution is uniquely designed to connect the world’s leading organizations with qualified suppliers, driving sustainable growth. We build trustworthy bonds through responsive technology and human insight. Our process is collaborative. Our global reach is complemented by our local expertise. Hundreds of global organizations depend on Avetta to align their supply chains to sustainable business practices, worldwide. Discover more at avetta.com.
Board Member
Sep 2012
We build shoes to help you move better. The Topo Difference delivers a distinct fit with a roomy toe box, secure midfoot and heel, and a low drop.
Board Member
Mar 2012
Our mission is to empower small businesses to achieve success. Manta is one of the largest online resources dedicated to helping small businesses grow. Our mission is to empower small businesses to achieve their full potential and reach new customers by claiming their business online, implementing effective SEO, and by building and strengthening their brand. Manta delivers products, services, and educational opportunities that are effective, easy to understand, and geared to help small business owners become more competitive in their respective industries. Millions of unique visitors search our Manta directory every month to find their local business needs through our comprehensive database for individual businesses, industry verticals, and geographic-specific listings. With Manta, business owners can claim and customize their profile page to improve online visibility and marketability. We offer a full digital suite, helping businesses to grow and gain more customers and improve their sales and revenue, no matter where they are along their digital journey. The Manta team works hard to deliver articles, resources, and tools for small businesses to utilize for growth. For more than 20 years, Manta has championed the small business by not only helping customers find them, but by helping businesses better connect with their customers.
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Dec 2010
ebbo is an all-in-one loyalty company that has helped leading brands build unforgettable customer experiences for over two decades. With our data-driven strategy, full-service approach and the unwavering support of the people behind our platform, our dedicated team will work with you to understand your loyalty goals, innovate solutions and help you build customer engagement on repeat. ebbo is headquartered in Rocky Hill, CT, with offices in Michigan and team members all over the U.S.
Board Member
Mar 2010
For more than 20 years, 1010data has helped financial, retail and consumer goods customers monitor shifts in consumer demand and market conditions and rapidly respond with highly-targeted strategies. The 1010data Insights Platform combines market intelligence, data management, granular enterprise analytics, and collaboration capabilities to empower better business outcomes. More than 900 of the world’s foremost companies partner with 1010data to power smarter decisions.
Experience · 26 entries
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Investments (23)
Board (16)
2026
Board Member
Jun 2026
East Range Group is a team of high purity water systems and service companies. We are dedicated to our core purpose of building phenomenal places to work for our incredible team of employees, and to building the best high purity water service company in North America.
2025
Board Member
Aug 2025
Frontline combines wildfire tracking software, satellite connectivity, and onsite sprinkler hardware to protect any building from wildfire. During the 2025 Los Angeles fires, 96% of homes equipped with Frontline systems survived. Proving our layered, active strategy works even under the harshest conditions. Designed for wildfire-prone communities, our Defense System 2 targets the top threat to homes: windblown embers. It delivers continuous remote protection through a combination of rooftop sprinklers, firefighting foam, real-time monitoring, and backup connectivity. Frontline empowers homeowners, builders, insurers, and agencies to move from reactive firefighting to proactive defense. Making it possible for communities to live safely alongside wildfire.
2024
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Mar 2024
Leaders of the world’s most respected companies join World 50 Group to learn from one another. More than 4,800 global CEOs, board directors, and senior executives across every function—from 40 countries across six continents—trust the World 50 community for insights that deliver impact at scale. World 50 is the safe space to exchange ideas, navigate complex challenges, and evolve as a leader. Members are at the forefront of transformation, leading organizations with a total market cap exceeding US $34 trillion and over 37 million employees worldwide. World 50 is a private company composed of mission-driven associates who consider it a privilege to help leaders stay ahead. Membership is by invitation only. For more information, visit world50.com
2023
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Mar 2023
Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software businesses, their employees, and customers to preserve the legacy of founders, while helping grow the business into the future. We are on a mission to acquire, build and grow great software businesses that have dominant positions in niche markets all over the world. Today Banyan has over 750 employees throughout the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Founded in 2016 with permanent capital to preserve the legacy of founders, Banyan focuses on a buy, hold and grow for life strategy. For more information on Banyan Software, Inc. visit: http://www.banyansoftware.com What We Look For: - Great enterprise software businesses that have dominant positions in niche markets - We work with owners who are thinking about an exit today or further down the road - We are flexible and can be creative when we find a business that is a good fit - The businesses in the Banyan family all share a similar profile: - Annual revenues in excess of $2M-$30M - A high percentage of recurring revenue - Positive operating margins and cash flow - High customer retention and satisfaction - Happy and committed employees
2022
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Dec 2022
Founded in 2011, GeoComply provides fraud prevention and cybersecurity solutions that detect location fraud and help verify a users true digital identity. Our award-winning products are based on the technologies developed for the highly regulated and complex U.S. online gaming and sports betting market. Beyond iGaming, GeoComply provides geolocation fraud detection solutions for streaming video broadcasters and the online banking, payments and cryptocurrency industries, building an impressive list of global customers including Amazon Prime Video, BBC, Akamai, Sightline, DraftKings, FanDuel and MGM. The company’s software is installed on over 400 million devices worldwide and analyzes over 10 billion transactions a year, placing GeoComply in a unique position to identify and counter both current and newly emerging fraud threats. Proven and refined over 10 years of development, GeoComply’s solutions incorporate location, device and identity intelligence along with advanced machine learning to detect and flag fraudulent activity. By integrating GeoComply’s solutions into their processes and risk engines, organizations are able to identify fraud earlier in a user’s engagement, better establish their true digital identity and empower digital trust.
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