Jeff Horing

The largest and most profitable dance fitness craze in over 125 countries, with over 12 million enthusiasts in more than 110 thousand dance spots, is the Latin-inspired Zumba. The popularity of this international multimedia dance-fitness party workout prompted Jeff Horing and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners to put together a minority investment in Zumba Fitness, the organization behind this dance fitness program. Jeff Horing is Insight’s Managing Director and is currently a member of the Zumba Fitness Board of Directors. This new investment and Insight’s technology and Internet skills are envisioned to bring additional growth and mass awareness to the Zumba Fitness brand.

Insight Venture Partners spearheaded a Series D round financing that produced over 40 million dollars in capital for WebTop publishing platform supplier Wix. Insight Venture Partners, as institutional investor, has Managing Director Jeff Horing participating as a member of the Wix Board of Directors. Since it was established in 2006, over 14 million websites were generated making use of the Wix free website builder where users can easily create amazing flash-based internet sites using easy-to-use templates and a drag-and-drop editing tool. End users can get hold of more features by purchasing the freemium model, the service where Wix gets its profits. The new funding from Jeff Horing and Insight will be used by Wix for its new social and mobile network ventures.

Insight Venture Partners is among the corporate capitalists in the company behind TeamViewer, with Insight Managing Director Jeff Horing participating as member of TeamViewer’s Board of Directors. TeamViewer has emerged as the standard tool employed by more than 10 million users worldwide for providing support and assistance to clients, vendors and personnel in remote areas. The investments made by Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners in SolarWinds will be used in improving the company’s infrastructure in continuously creating high-end programs for remote control, desktop sharing, document transfers, internet conferencing and web collaborations.

Jeff Horing has considerable experience in leading technical businesses in his duty as Managing Director for New York-based Insight Venture Partners. This makes him highly qualified as Board of Directors’ member 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 buyers that include business, military, government and educational organizations. As member of the Board of Directors, Jeff Horing provides his financial and business skills to steer SolarWinds into creating innovative solutions that can help customers minimize network downtime, monitor its performance, and enhance the efficiency of their network staff.

Jeff Horing is a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners and has built a solid reputation in recognizing IT and technical businesses like Datacore Software that are positioned for remarkable advancement in its market. Founded in 1998, Datacore Software has emerged to be among the leading software vendors specializing in storage management, storage networking and storage virtualization. Seeing this profitable positioning of Datacore as the preferred virtual storage framework for desktop virtualization systems and servers, Insight Venture Partners poured in new investments in the company, with Jeff Horing serving as a member of Board of Directors at Datacore Software.

6 Waves (Hong Kong 6 Waves Inc.) is one of the leading international 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 headed by Co-Founder and Managing Director Jeff Horing, who also sits as member of the 6 Waves Board of Directors. 6 Waves features a collection of over 20 published social games with more than fifty million active players from around the globe every month. Jeff Horing and Insight poured in a $17.5 million investment in the company to support 6 Waves’ worldwide expansion by creating a stronger infrastructure and distribution pipeline.

Mentez is the largest social games publisher in Latin America and one of 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 by taking a seat on Mentez’s Board of Directors. Mentez currently manages more than seven social games on Facebook and over twenty one social games in Orkut, the major social network in Brazil, and services over 22 million weekly active players. The financial investment made by Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners in Mentez will support the social gaming company in growing its portfolio of social games to take advantage of the broad market opportunities in Latin America.

Insight Venture Partners is the sole institutional investor of content security, network security and messaging software solutions provider GFI Software. Insight’s Founding Partner and Managing Director, Jeff Horing, sits 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 recipient 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 company in producing innovative products for e-mail spam and virus filters as well as security software applications for monitoring and scanning systems.

Jeff Horing gained a level of knowledge in business capital investment strategies that is certainly essential in establishing technical investment skills. At the same time, better understanding in technological infrastructure can be acquired by building this expertise on top of a strong foundation of education and learning. Such building block is what Jeff Horing acquired when he earned his Masters of Business Administration from 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 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 Jeff graduated Phi Beta Kappa with high honors.

Together with Jerry Murdock, Jeff Horing started venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners and is also at present serving as Managing Director concentrating on web gaming, mobile technologies, Internet, technological and software businesses. Jeff Horing is likewise involved in a number of investment portfolio companies serving as a member of the Board of Directors as Insight representative. Under his guidance, Jeff Horing drove Insight Venture Partners to emerge as one of the leading private equity firms centered in technological innovation, online and software application industries. Since Insight Venture Partners began, the company raised over $3 billion to invest in several portfolio companies.