Insight Venture Partners is an American private equity and venture capital firm based in New York, New York. The firm focuses exclusively on running software and Internet-enabled businesses and currently has a capital base of approximately $5 billion. The company has invested in well-known companies such as Twitter, Chegg, Tumblr, Flipboard, Zumba and Quest Software. Insight Venture Partners focuses exclusively on investing in software, infrastructure, data and Internet-enabled businesses. Insight’s investments include growth equity, capital for M&A, buyouts, take-privates, pre-IPO rounds and recapitalizations. The firm engages in majority and minority investments, and purchases both primary and secondary shares. Insight provides significant consulting resources to portfolio companies through its exclusive operations team called Insight Onsite.
Insight Venture Partners has raised seven funds and invested in more than 170 companies, of which 21 have achieved IPOs. Insight Venture Partners” performance is ranked among the top in the industry: Fortune magazine (August 20, 2012) listed Insight Venture Partners as one of the top-performing funds for the 2000 vintage year as determined by cumulative distribution divided by called capital (from 2000-2011). In December 2011, CALPERS published information on the IRR and performance of its venture capital and private equity investments since 1991. Insight is 30th out of 280 investments, and the third highest in the 2005 vintage of 30 Funds.
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