Company type | Private |
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Industry | Private Equity |
Founded | 1995 |
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Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
AUM | US$90 billion (2022) [1] |
Number of employees | 326 (2021) |
Website | insightpartners |
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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]
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]
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]
Notable investments include:
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