Jeff Horing

The largest and most successful dance fitness craze in more than 125 countries, with over twelve million participants in more than 110 thousand areas, is the Latin-inspired Zumba. The tremendous popularity of this global multimedia dance-fitness party workout motivated Jeff Horing and New York-based Insight Venture Partners to put together a minority investment in Zumba Fitness, the company behind this dance-fitness program. Jeff Horing is Managing Director at Insight and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Zumba Fitness. This new investment and Insight’s technology and online skills are predicted to provide further growth and mass awareness to the Zumba program.

Insight Venture Partners led a Series D round financing that produced more than $40 million capital for WebTop publishing platform supplier Wix. Insight Venture Partners, as corporate investor, has Managing Director Jeff Horing participating as a member of the Board of Directors of Wix. Since it began in 2006, over 14 million websites were generated utilizing the Wix free website builder where end users can easily create awesome flash-based websites using easy-to-use templates and a drag-and-drop editing tool. Users can get additional features by purchasing the freemium model, the service where Wix gains revenues. The new investment from Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners will be utilized by Wix for its new social and mobile initiatives.

Insight Venture Partners is one of the corporate investors in the corporation behind TeamViewer, with Insight Managing Director Jeff Horing sitting in as member of the Board of Directors of TeamViewer. TeamViewer has emerged as the primary tool employed by more than 10 million users throughout the world for giving support and assistance for clients, suppliers and staff in remote locations. The investments made by Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners in SolarWinds will be utilized in improving the company’s systems in further building high-end software solutions for remote control, desktop sharing, document transfers, internet conferencing and web collaborations.

Jeff Horing has extensive experience in directing technical companies in his role as Managing Director for New York-based Insight Venture Partners. This makes him very qualified as Board of Directors’ member for SolarWinds Inc., one of Insight Venture Partners’ portfolio companies. SolarWinds supplies easy-to-use network management, monitoring and discovery software applications for mid-market buyers that include commercial, military, government and academic organizations. As member of the Board of Directors, Jeff Horing offers his financial and business know-how to direct SolarWinds into creating creative products that can help customers reduce network outages, monitor its overall performance, and enhance the effectiveness of their network staff.

Jeff Horing is a Managing Director at Insight and has built a strong reputation in determining IT and technical companies like Datacore Software that is positioned for remarkable growth in its industry. Founded in 1998, Datacore Software has emerged to be among the major software vendors specializing in storage management, storage networking and storage virtualization. Recognizing this profitable positioning of Datacore Software as the preferred virtual storage framework for desktop virtualization platforms and servers, Insight poured in new financial investments in the business, with Jeff Horing participating as a member of Datacore Software’s Board of Directors.

6 Waves (Hong Kong 6 Waves Inc.) is one of the top international social gaming publishers operating 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 Founding Partner and Managing Director Jeff Horing, who also sits on the 6 Waves Board of Directors. 6 Waves boasts a portfolio of over 20 published social games with more than 50 million active users from around the globe each and every month. Jeff Horing and Insight made a $17.5 million investment in the company to support 6 Waves’ worldwide expansion by building a stronger infrastructure and distribution pipeline.

Mentez is the largest social gaming publisher in South America and one of its institutional investors is New York-based venture 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 currently operates over seven social games on Facebook and more than 21 social games in Orkut, the major social network in Brazil, and services more than twenty two million weekly active players. The funding made by Jeff Horing and Insight in Mentez will support the social gaming company in enlarging its portfolio of social games to benefit from the broad opportunities in Latin America.

Insight Venture Partners is the only institutional capitalist of content security, network security and messaging software supplier GFI Software. Insight’s Founding Partner and Managing Director, Jeff Horing, serves as a member of the Board of Directors at GFI Software. The software provider is a Gold Certified Partner of Microsoft and is a previous winner 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 to support the company in creating innovative solutions for e-mail spam and virus filters together with security software for monitoring and scanning networks.

Jeff Horing has a kind of knowledge in business capital investments that is certainly fundamental in developing technological investment skills. At the same time, better understanding in technological infrastructure can be acquired by building this expertise on top of a good foundation of education. Such cornerstone is precisely what Jeff Horing obtained 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 at the same time carries dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering and the Wharton School of Business where he graduated with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa.

In partnership with Jerry Murdock, Jeff Horing started investment capital firm Insight Venture Partners and is currently serving as Managing Director specializing in web gaming, mobile technologies, Internet, technology and software application businesses. Jeff Horing is in addition also engaged in various portfolio businesses serving on the Board of Directors as Insight representative. Under his guidance, Jeff Horing drove Insight Venture Partners to become one of the premiere private equity investors focused in technological innovation, online and software application industries. Ever since Insight Venture Partners began, the corporation produced over three billion dollars to support the portfolio companies the firm invests in.