Ran Ding

General Partner, Co-head of Norwest Growth

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United States
17
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Portfolio

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2026
Ennoble Care, where our mission is "To Care Is An Honor," is a community-based primary, palliative, and hospice care service providing care to patients and families.
Board Member
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
2022
Pebl puts a world of talent at your fingertips. With our Global Work Platform™, companies can hire, pay, and manage employees in 185+ countries—removing risk, red tape, and guesswork from global growth. Backed by more than a decade of local expertise and compliance leadership, Pebl is built to move as fast as your ambitions, whether you’re bringing on your first international teammate or scaling a workforce across continents. Our AI-powered, human-led platform integrates seamlessly with HRIS, HCM, and ATS systems and delivers instant, vetted answers in 50+ languages—so you stay compliant and confident wherever you grow. We’ve helped thousands of businesses—from Fortune 500s to rapid-growth start-ups—scale strategically around the world. Consistently named a leader in global Employer of Record (EOR) services, Pebl holds more employment licenses than any other EOR and is rated #1 for compliance on G2. With Pebl, companies everywhere can hire great talent anywhere.
Board Observer
2022
Velocity Global gives you the power to build your team everywhere—combining seamless technology and local expertise in 185+ countries. We make it simple to compliantly hire, pay, and manage talent anywhere. With Velocity Global, the world is yours.
Board Member
2021
AbsenceSoft is a leave and accommodation management solutions provider, delivering scalable, easy-to-use, and configurable software to manage FMLA, ADA, disability, and many other forms of leave easily and efficiently. Built by leave professionals, for leave professionals, AbsenceSoft now covers over 5 million lives.
Board Member
2021
Supplier.io powers the most successful supplier diversity programs! We provide solutions that help supplier diversity managers and chief procurement officers implement effective programs that grow diversity spend, improve supply chain competitiveness, and increase brand value. 50% of the Fortune 100 use our solutions along with 50% of the Billion Dollar Round table. Our data, software and experts provide: - Data Enrichment to evaluate your current diverse spend - Supplier Explorer to easily find new diverse suppliers - Spend Reporting to analyze your spend data for opportunities - Tier 2 portal and program management - Economic Impact Assessment to quantify the impact programs have on communities they serve
Board Member
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
2017
About Diligent Diligent created the modern governance movement. As the leading governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS company, we serve 1 million users from over 25,000 customers around the globe. Our innovative platform gives leaders a connected view of governance, risk, compliance and ESG across their organization. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Headquartered in New York, Diligent also has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney.  Learn more at diligent.com. About Galvanize Galvanize, now Diligent, builds software for security, risk management, compliance, and audit professionals. Our platform provides visibility into risk, makes it easy to demonstrate compliance, and helps grow your audit, risk, and compliance programs without incurring extra costs.
Board Member
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
2015
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.
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2026
Investor
2026
Ennoble Care, where our mission is "To Care Is An Honor," is a community-based primary, palliative, and hospice care service providing care to patients and families.
2025
Board Member
2025
Empower your people—from field staff, to council, to citizens—with software and consulting solutions for your city’s biggest challenges. PSD Citywide’s people have worked closely with hundreds of organizations and understand the unique challenges that all sizes of local, First Nations, and regional governments face in every department. Let that experience work for your organization. Move your city forward with PSD Citywide.
2024
Board Member
2024
Elite Business Ventures has developed several brands that assist Small Business Owners, HR Professionals and large corporations with HR, compliance and safety solutions. Established in 2005, Elite Business Ventures, Inc. has helped over 100,000 businesses comply with the latest labor laws and safety regulations. Elite Business Ventures, Inc. prides itself on assisting employers cope with regulatory changes while delivering simple, cost effective and comprehensive solutions that prevent costly employee related fines or lawsuits. In 2017, Elite Business Ventures established a leadership and management consulting practice to support our client companies in their quest for growth. This practice is dedicated to helping those entrepreneurs and leadership teams get more profit, accountability, and fun out of their business. Using the Entrepreneurial Operating System, our consultant guides leadership teams to work together to get greater organizational clarity, increase accountability, solve issues quickly, and achieve goals on time and on budget. We also work with individual leaders to identify and leverage their unique strengths for the greater good of the organization as well as their professional satisfaction. Finally, we lead executive mastermind groups for the owners of payroll bureaus and PEOs.
2023
Board Member
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
2023
SpryPoint builds amazing cloud-based enterprise software for electric, water, gas, and telecom utilities. We give utilities the tools they need to provide top-tier customer service while improving operational efficiency and enabling a world of cutting-edge capabilities. We make the world a better place for utility operators and customers all over North America. We build Smart Solutions for Smart Utilities.
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