Jeff Horing

Jeff Horing has a strong foundation in education which he acquired from his MBA course at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. MIT Sloan or Sloan is the business college of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts with full-time MBA as its primary program. Jeff Horing also possesses dual undergraduate degrees from the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with high honors. This educational background equipped Jeff Horing with the basic foundation to develop the kind of know-how in venture capital investments that is fundamental in building technological investment capabilities. As a result of this robust educational background, Jeff Horing achieved better insight and knowledge in technological infrastructure that is crucial to his success as a venture investor.

Latin-inspired Zumba is fast growing to be the largest and most popular dance-fitness phenomenon in over 125 countries. Right now, there are over 12 million aficionados taking part in this latest dancing fad in over 110 thousand locations. The tremendous popularity of this international multimedia dance-fitness party workout program drew financiers like Jeff Horing and New York-based Insight Venture Partners to invest a minority stake in Zumba Fitness, the firm behind this dance-fitness program. Jeff Horing is Managing Director at Insight and this new investment placed him as a new member of the Board of Directors of Zumba Fitness. With Jeff Horing’s support and the help of Insight’s technology and Internet proficiency, this new financial investment is envisioned to bring further growth and global awareness to the Zumba label.

Wix has emerged as one of the quickly emerging online publishing platform companies that provides free webpage builders to subscribers, allowing these people to easily produce remarkable flash-based website pages using easy-to-use design templates and a drag-and-drop editing tools. Since its inception in the year 2006 more than fourteen million sites were developed using the Wix platform. Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners headed a Series D round financing that raised more than forty million dollars capital 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 new inflow of investment funds from Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners will be used by Wix for its new social media and mobile projects. Customers can get extra features by availing of the freemium model, the facility where Wix gains profits.

Jeff Horing, Insight Venture Partner’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, has a knack for finding notable technology-based businesses that they can make investments in. Among Insight’s growing roster of portfolio businesses is TeamViewer, where Jeff Horing serves as member of the Board of Directors. TeamViewer has emerged as the well-known tool used by more than 10 million end users all over the globe for supplying support and assistance for customers, vendors and employees in remote locations. Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners’ investments in the business shall be utilized to assist TeamViewer in further developing high-end solutions for remote control, desktop sharing, file transfers, web conferencing and online collaborations.

In his role as venture capital firm Insight Venture Partner’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, Jeff Horing gained considerable experience in directing technological companies. Since the company’s beginnings, Jeff Horing has participated in several of Insight’s investment undertakings including SolarWinds Inc. where he also serves as Independent Director. SolarWinds is a technology-based firm that produces user-friendly network management, monitoring and discovery software products and solutions for mid-market clients that include business, military services, government and academic institutions. In his role as a member of the Board of Directors, Jeff Horing offers his financial and business expertise to steer SolarWinds into producing ingenious products and solutions that can help clients reduce downtime, enhance performance, and maximize the effectiveness of their network staff.

There is no doubt that social media networking has made a remarkable impact throughout the globe which includes South America and in the Internet gaming world, Mentez is certainly making awesome waves. The firm is the largest social gaming publisher in Latin America and has more than twenty-two million weekly active players. Mentez likewise manages more than 7 social games on Facebook and over twenty-one social games in Orkut, the prominent social network in Brazil. This growing popularity of this social gaming firm prompted Jeff Horing, Insight Venture Partner’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, to become an institutional capitalist in this business. Now, Jeff Horing assumes a seat on Mentez’s Board of Directors and the investments made will support the social gamer in increasing its portfolio of social games.

Foremost among the characteristics Jeff Horing has exhibited as Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners is his proficiency in identifying IT and technological companies similar to Datacore Software that are positioned for incredible advancement in its current market. The company is a software provider established in the year 1998 and is slowly emerging as a foremost provider focusing in storage management, storage networking and storage virtualization. Jeff Horing has acknowledged this lucrative placement of Datacore as the favored virtual storage base for desktop virtualization platforms and servers. As a result, Jeff Horing and his team at Insight poured in new investment funds in Datacore Software in support of further developments and continuous growth of the technological firm. Jeff Horing takes an active role in this business venture as a member of Datacore Software’s Board of Directors.

Jeff Horing is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of leading international private equity and investment capital firm Insight Venture Partners. Insight is the primary corporate investor of GFI Software, a technology-based corporation engaged in data security, system security and messaging applications provider. GFI Software is a receiver of the Microsoft Fusion Packaged Application Partner of the Year award and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This makes GFI Software deserving of financial investment from Insight Venture Partners according to Jeff Horing, who is also a director in this software firm. Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners remains supportive of the business in generating ground breaking products and solutions for e-mail spam and virus filter systems as well as security software for monitoring and scanning networks.

Sword CTSpace, Inc is a growing document management and collaboration workflow solutions company that helps clients manage their computerized technical docs and data. Majority of their clientele are organizations engaged in building and engineering processes, supplying them with project collaboration, procedure management, and information management 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 over 13,000 initiatives in fifty six countries, Sword CTSpace will likely attain more growth in their international projects with this investment capital influx from Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners.

Jeff Horing started early in his career, doing work in the Capital Markets team for Goldman Sachs then later established himself as a part of the Warburg Pincus’ technology-investing team. During the period between 1990 and 1994, Jeff Horing was a key component in executing at the very least eight investments, specifically in the software applications sector. This primary experience set him up for more exciting investment strategies when he started Insight Venture Partners in the year 1995 together with Jerry Murdock. With Jeff at the steering wheel and after raising over 3 billion dollars in investment funds to support the firm’s portfolio companies, Insight emerged as one of the top private equity firms. Jeff Horing now has as Managing Director concentrating on internet gaming, mobile, Internet, technology-based and software businesses.