Vab Goel

A long time investment professional with more than a decade of operational experience, Vab Goel serves as General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). NVP is a global venture and growth equity investment firm that manages more than $3.7 billion in capital. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, NVP has subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India, and Herzelia, Israel. The firm makes early to late stage venture and growth equity investments in U.S. and global companies across a wide range of sectors including information technology, business services, financial services, infrastructure, technology-enabled services, health care and consumer. NVP has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years and has funded nearly 500 companies since inception. Mr. Goel evaluates and invests in companies in the next-generation systems, services and Internet sectors. At Norwest Venture Partners, he draws upon his expertise in network engineering to provide informed decisions on specific companies. Chief among Mr. Goel’s investments remains Virtela Communications, a company which he founded and remains on the board. Mr. Goel currently works closely with NVP portfolio companies Pontis, Apigee and Veveo. Vab has also worked closely with Extreme Networks and was previously an investor in C2C Pte. Ltd., LifeSize (acquired by Logitech), Qumranet (acquired by Red Hat), Unisfair (acquired by InterCall) and Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola). Mr. Goel joined Norwest Venture Partners with the distinct advantage of working at both the engineering and executive levels in global telecommunications companies. Immediately prior to joining Norwest Venture Partners, Mr. Goel served as a Vice President for telecommunications provider Qwest Communications International, Inc. Initially serving as a Vice President of IP Network Engineering and Advanced Technology, Mr. Goel established and implemented Qwest’s IP Network and Data Center strategy. Following this, Mr. Goel founded Qwest’s Emerging Technologies Group, which focused on developing new networking technologies and products. Prior to Qwest, Mr. Goel served as a principal architect for the Sprint Internet backbone and contributed to the company’s IP and optical network strategy.