Insight Partners

Insight Venture Management, LLC (commonly referred to as Insight Partners and previously Insight Venture Partners) is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests software and internet businesses.^[4] The company is headquartered in New York City, also has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto.^[5][6][7]

Insight Venture Management, LLC

Company type	Private
Industry	Private Equity
Founded	1995; 30 years ago (1995)
Founders	Jeff Horing Jerry Murdock
Headquarters	New York City, New York, U.S.
AUM	US$90 billion (2022)[1]
Number of employees	326 (2021)
Website	insightpartners.com
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History

Insight Partners was founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock.^[8][9][10] As of April 2025, the firm has approximately $90 billion in assets under management.^[11]

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.^[12] 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.^[13] In February 2022, the company announced it had raised $20 billion for its twelfth flagship fund, more than doubling the size of its previous flagship fund.^[14][15] In July 2022, Insight Partners established the Enterprise Technology Exchange (ETX), an advisory group responsible for helping emerging IT companies navigate uncertain markets.^[16]

In January 2025, Insight announced that it raised $12.5 billion across its thirteenth flagship fund and a separate structured‑equity vehicle.^[17] Insight stated that is has invested in over 875 companies as of June 30, 2025.^[18]

Operations

Media coverage has described Insight’s sourcing approach as heavily outbound, supported by an analyst program that identifies software companies, and by an internal “Onsite” team that provides portfolio support.^[11][16][19]