Yoni Braun

Yoni Braun is a Vice President on Norwest’s venture investment team, focused on Israel. Norwest lists his stage as “Venture” and geography as “Israel,” and describes his mandate as early- to late-stage venture investing across a wide range of sectors, with emphasis on enterprise, infrastructure, and consumer Internet.

Before joining Norwest, Braun was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. In that role, he worked with clients across industries on public and private capital raises, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Braun earned a BA in business administration, magna cum laude, with a specialization in finance and risk management from The Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. At Norwest, he is part of a global platform that says it invests from early-stage venture through late-stage growth, with a presence in North America, India, and Israel.

• Invests in early- to late-stage venture companies in Israel, with a stated emphasis on enterprise, infrastructure, and consumer Internet.
• Norwest’s venture platform invests across early and later-stage companies, typically writing $1M–$30M equity checks.
• Signal lists Braun’s investor profile with a $1M–$30M investment range, a $12.5M sweet spot, and rankings across Israel, Enterprise, Enterprise Infrastructure, and Consumer Internet at Seed, Series A, and Series B.
• In Norwest’s 2026 investor outlook, Braun said: “Security, both physical and cyber, is undergoing a fundamental transformation as AI shifts from a support function to a mission-critical automation layer.”
• His founder-support philosophy is stage-spanning: “No shortcuts when it comes to building anything — our work with founders is to support them across stages and functions, from the early building stages and later as they scale.”
• He says he values “humility and being open to learning,” adding that top-tier founders “don’t stop asking questions and learning.”