The largest and most successful dance-fitness phenomenon in over 125 countries, with over 12 million participants in over 110 thousand locations, is the Latin-inspired Zumba. The popularity of this global multimedia dance fitness party workout prompted Jeff Horing and New York-based Insight Venture Partners to make a minority investment in Zumba Fitness, the company behind this dance-fitness program. Jeff Horing is Managing Director at Insight and is now part of the Board of Directors of Zumba Fitness. This fresh investment and Insight’s technology and online skills are expected to deliver further growth and mass attention to the Zumba brand.
Insight Venture Partners led a Series D round financing that garnered more than $40 million funding for WebTop publishing platform supplier Wix. Insight Venture Partners, as institutional investor, has Managing Director Jeff Horing taking part as a member of the Wix Board of Directors. Since it began in 2006, over 14 million sites were created making use of the Wix free website builder where end users can easily create awesome flash-based internet sites using user friendly templates and a drag-and-drop editing tool. Customers can get added features by purchasing the freemium model, the facility where Wix gains profits. The new funding from Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners will be used by Wix for its new social and mobile projects.
Insight Venture Partners is one of the institutional capitalists in the corporation behind TeamViewer, with Insight Venture Partners Managing Director Jeff Horing sitting in as member of TeamViewer’s Board of Directors. TeamViewer is very popular as the primary tool employed by more than 10 million end users throughout the world for giving support and assistance to clients, vendors and staff in remote locations. The investments made by Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners in SolarWinds will be used in enhancing the company’s infrastructure in further building high-end programs for remote control, desktop sharing, document transfers, internet conferencing and online collaborations.
Jeff Horing has extensive experience in guiding technological businesses in his duty as Managing Director for New York-based Insight Venture Partners. This makes him highly capable as Independent Director for SolarWinds Inc., one of Insight Venture Partners’ portfolio companies. SolarWinds offers easy-to-use network management, monitoring and discovery software solutions for mid-market customers that include commercial, armed forces, government and educational institutions. As member of the Board of Directors, Jeff Horing offers his financial and business know-how to steer SolarWinds into developing creative products that can help customers minimize network downtime, monitor its performance, and improve the effectiveness of their network staff.
Jeff Horing is a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners and has developed a strong reputation in recognizing IT and technological businesses like Datacore Software that are poised for remarkable advancement in its industry. Founded in 1998, Datacore Software has emerged to be among the top software vendors focused in storage management, storage networking and storage virtualization. Recognizing this profitable positioning of Datacore as the favored virtual storage framework for desktop virtualization systems and servers, Insight Venture Partners poured in new financial investments in the business, with Jeff Horing serving as a member of Datacore Software’s Board of Directors.
6 Waves (Hong Kong Six Waves Inc.) is one of the leading global social gaming publishers doing business independently on the Facebook social network platform. 6 Waves is a venture-backed company and one of its leading institutional investors is New York-based Insight Venture Partners led by Co-Founder and Managing Director Jeff Horing, who also sits as member of the 6 Waves Board of Directors. 6 Waves showcases a selection of more than twenty published social games with over fifty million active users worldwide each month. Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners made a $17.5 million investment in the company to assist 6 Waves’ global expansion by building a more robust infrastructure and distribution pipeline.
Mentez is the biggest social gaming publisher in South America and among its corporate investors is New York-based business capital firm Insight Venture Partners. Jeff Horing, Insight’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, will manage Insight’s interests in the company taking an active role in Mentez’s Board of Directors. Mentez at this time handles over seven social games on Facebook and more than twenty one social games in Orkut, the major social network in Brazil, and services more than twenty-two million weekly active players. The investment made by Jeff Horing and Insight in Mentez will support the social gamer in expanding its portfolio of social games to take advantage of the broad opportunities in Latin America.
Insight Venture Partners is the sole corporate capitalist of content security, network security and messaging software solutions provider GFI Software. Insight’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, Jeff Horing, serves as a member of the Board of Directors at GFI Software. The software applications supplier is a Gold Certified Partner of Microsoft and is a old receiver of the Microsoft Fusion Packaged Application Partner of the Year award. Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners have invested heavily in GFI Software and will continue with supporting the firm in producing innovative solutions for e-mail spam and virus filters as well as security software for monitoring and scanning systems.
Jeff Horing has a kind of experience in business capital investments that is certainly fundamental in establishing technical investment skills. At the same time, better insight in technical infrastructure can be acquired by building this proficiency on top of a strong groundwork in education and learning. Such cornerstone is precisely what Jeff Horing received when he attained his MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. MIT Sloan or Sloan is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School for business, in Massachusetts with the full-time MBA program as its largest. 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.
Together with Jerry Murdock, Jeff Horing established investment capital company Insight Venture Partners and is also now performing the role of Managing Director focusing on web gaming, mobile technologies, Internet, technology and software businesses. Jeff Horing is also engaged in several portfolio companies serving on the Board of Directors as Insight representative. Under his leadership, Jeff Horing led Insight Venture Partners to become one of the leading private equity investors concentrated in technological innovation, online and software application businesses. Since Insight Venture Partners began, the firm raised over three billion dollars to invest in several portfolio companies.