Insight Partners

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Insight Venture Management, LLC
Company type Private
Industry Private Equity
Founded1995;29 years ago (1995)
Founders
  • Jeff Horing
  • Jerry Murdock
Headquarters New York City, New York, U.S.
AUM US$90 billion (2022) [1]
Number of employees
326 (2021)
Website insightpartners.com
Footnotes /references
[2] [3]

Insight Partners (previously Insight Venture Partners) is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in high-growth technology, software, and Internet businesses. [4] [5] The company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. [6] [7] [8]

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In June 2023, Insight Partners was ranked 19th in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking of the largest private equity firms in the world. [9]

History

Insight Partners was founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. [10] [11] [12] As of December 31, 2022, the firm has over $75 billion in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. [3] The firm has an in-house team called Onsite that assists portfolio companies in their growth. [13]

In April 2021, Insight Partners raised $1.56 billion for the Insight Partners Opportunities Fund I LP, a separate fund from its primary growth-investment vehicles. [14] Also in 2021, Insight Partners put $15 million of its capital into a new fund, The Vision Capital 2020 LP Fund, which supports minority-led firms raising early-stage funds. [15] In February 2022, the company announced that it had raised $20 billion for its twelfth flagship fund, more than doubling the size of its previous flagship fund. [16] [17] In July 2022, Insight Partners established the Enterprise Technology Exchange (ETX), an advisory group responsible for helping emerging IT companies navigate uncertain markets. [18]

Portfolio

Notable investments include:

Accolades

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