Background
Insight Venture Partners was founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. Since inception, Insight Venture Partners has raised $5 billion of capital to invest in its target industries. Insight is currently investing from Fund VII, a $2 billion capital pool.
As of 2012, the firm has eight investment partners and two operations partners focused on assisting management teams as they grow their businesses. The firm’s Executive Advisory Board has included Robert Rubin (Chairman of Citigroup and 70th Secretary of the Treasury) and Steve Friedman (Chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and former Chairman of Goldman Sachs).
Insight Venture Partners is active globally with portfolio-company investments in 65 countries on six continents.
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