Jeff Horing has a solid foundation in education which he acquired from his MBA program at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. MIT Sloan or Sloan is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts with full-time MBA as its primary course. Jeff Horing also holds dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering and the Wharton School of Business where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with high honors. This educational background equipped Jeff Horing with the groundwork to gain the kind of experience in venture capital investments that is important in establishing technology-based investment abilities. Through this good foundation of education, Jeff Horing attained better comprehension and know-how in technological infrastructure that is essential to his success as a venture capitalist.

Latin-inspired Zumba is quickly growing to be the biggest and most popular dance-fitness craze in more than 125 nations around the world. Right now, there are over 12 million fanatics taking part in this newest dance craze in over one hundred ten thousand spots. The tremendous popularity of this international multimedia dance-fitness party workout program attracted financiers like Jeff Horing and New York-based Insight Venture Partners to make a minority stake in Zumba Fitness, the company behind this dance-fitness program. Jeff Horing is Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners and this fresh investment placed him as a member of the Board of Directors of Zumba Fitness. With Jeff Horing’s direction and the aid of Insight Venture Partners’ technology and Internet expertise, this new financial investment is expected to bring additional growth and mass recognition to the Zumba brand name.

Wix has emerged as one of the rapidly emerging online publishing platform suppliers that provides free website builders to end users, allowing them to quite easily build amazing flash-based web pages using easy-to-use design templates and a drag-and-drop editing tools. Since its inception in the year 2006 more than 14 million sites were created using the Wix platform. Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners headed a Series D round funding that raised more than 40 million dollars funding for Wix. Jeff Horing is Managing Director at Insight and as an institutional capitalist also sits in on the Board of Directors at Wix. This fresh inflow of investment capital from Jeff Horing and Insight will be utilized by Wix for the company’s new social media and mobile projects. Customers can get added features by investing in the freemium model, the facility where Wix gains revenue.

Jeff Horing, Insight Venture Partner’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, has a talent for identifying profitable technological companies that they can invest in. Among Insight Venture Partners’ increasing list of portfolio businesses is TeamViewer, where Jeff Horing serves as member of the Board of Directors. TeamViewer has emerged as the standard program employed by more than ten million users all over the world for providing support and assistance for clientele, vendors and employees in remote locations. Jeff Horing and Insight’s investments in the firm shall be used to assist TeamViewer in further developing high-end products and solutions for remote control, desktop sharing, file transfers, web conferencing and online collaborations.

In his function as venture capital firm Insight Venture Partner’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, Jeff Horing accumulated extensive knowledge in directing technological companies. Since the company’s beginnings, Jeff Horing has taken part in many of Insight’s investment endeavors including SolarWinds Inc. where he also serves as Independent Director. SolarWinds is a technological company that creates easy-to-use network management, monitoring and discovery software products and solutions for mid-market consumers that consist of enterprise, military, government and academic institutions. In his role as a member of the Board of Directors, Jeff Horing offers his economic and business expertise to steer SolarWinds into producing ingenious products that can assist customers reduce downtime, enhance performance, and maximize the effectiveness of their network staff.

Certainly, there is no question that social media networking has created a tremendous influence throughout the planet including South America and in the region’s social gaming world Mentez is definitely making tremendous waves. The company is the largest social gaming publisher in Latin America and has over twenty-two million weekly active players. Mentez likewise manages more than seven social games on Facebook and more than twenty-one social games in Orkut, the dominant social network in Brazil. This growing popularity of this social gaming organization prompted Jeff Horing, Insight Venture Partner’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, to become an institutional capitalist in this corporation. Now, Jeff Horing takes a seat on Mentez’s Board of Directors and the investments made will help the social gamer in broadening its selection of social games.

One of the strong attributes Jeff Horing has exhibited as Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners is his capability to identify IT and technology-based companies such as Datacore Software that are positioned for enormous advancement in its marketplace. The corporation is a software applications vendor founded in the year 1998 and has slowly emerged as a leading supplier focusing in data storage management, networking and virtualization. Jeff Horing has identified this lucrative positioning of Datacore as the favored virtual storage foundation for desktop virtualization platforms and servers. For this reason, Jeff Horing and his team at Insight Venture Partners poured in new investment funds in Datacore Software in support of further developments and continuous growth of the technology-based firm. Jeff Horing takes an active role in this venture as a member of the Board of Directors at Datacore Software.

Jeff Horing is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of top global private equity and venture capital company Insight Venture Partners. The company is the main institutional capitalist of GFI Software, a technology firm involved in content security, network security and messaging software supplier. GFI Software is a recipient of the Microsoft Fusion Packaged Application Partner of the Year award and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This renders this software company worthy of funding from Insight according to Jeff Horing, who is likewise a director in this software firm. Jeff Horing and Insight will continue to support the corporation in producing innovative products for e-mail spam and virus filters as well as security software for monitoring and scanning networks.

CTSpace, Inc is an emerging data file management and collaboration workflow systems company that helps clients manage their digital engineering docs and database. Just about all of their clientele are corporations involved in infrastructure and engineering operations, supplying them with job collaboration, procedure management, and information management products and solutions. Insight Venture Partners committed investment capital in CTSpace with Founding Partner and Managing Director Jeff Horing positioned in this portfolio company’s Board of Directors. With more than thirteen thousand ventures in fifty six countries around the world, CTSpace Inc. will likely achieve more expansion in their global projects with this investment inflow from Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners.

Jeff Horing started early in his profession, engaging in the Capital Markets group for Goldman Sachs then subsequently established himself as an associate of the Warburg Pincus’ technology investing team. During the period between 1990 and 1994, Jeff Horing was instrumental in facilitating at least 8 investment ventures, specifically in the software arena. This primary experience set him up for more impressive investment projects when he founded Insight Venture Partners in 1995 together with Jerry Murdock. With Jeff at the steering wheel and after gaining over 3 billion dollars in investment funds to finance the firm’s investment portfolio companies, Insight emerged as among the top private equity firms. Jeff Horing now serves as Managing Director concentrating on internet gaming, mobile, web-based, technological and software investment opportunities.