Norm Fogelsong

I’ve always been passionate about building and investing. I first learned about venture capital in 1973 while studying engineering at Stanford, and I immediately decided I wanted to be a VC. Silicon Valley was becoming a global powerhouse at the time, and I wanted to help technology entrepreneurs build their companies. Back then, there were only a handful of venture firms. Most encouraged me to continue my education, so I proceeded to study both business and law to ready myself for the path ahead.

I began my career writing code as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard. Later, I served as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. In 1989, I joined Reid Dennis and Mary Jane Elmore at IVP, where I founded the later-stage and public market investment group. Our focus on growth investing has been fundamental to our firm’s evolution as a dominant player in venture capital.