Jeff Horing

Jeff Horing possesses a strong foundation in education which he earned from his MBA course at 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 full-time MBA as its major program. Jeff Horing also possesses 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. This education equipped Jeff Horing with the building block to develop the kind of experience in venture capital investments that is essential in enhancing technological investment abilities. Through this good educational background, Jeff Horing attained a lot better comprehension and knowledge in technology-based infrastructure that is essential to his success as a venture investor.

Latin-inspired Zumba is rapidly growing to be the biggest and most popular dance-fitness phenomenon in more than 125 countries. Now, there are more than 12 million enthusiasts participating in this newest dancing fad in more than one hundred ten thousand locations. The growing popularity of this international multimedia dance-fitness party workout program brought in financiers like Jeff Horing and New York-based Insight Venture Partners to invest a minority share in Zumba Fitness, the company behind this popular program. Jeff Horing is Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners and this fresh funding positioned him as a new member of the Board of Directors of Zumba Fitness. With Jeff Horing’s direction and the help of Insight’s technology and Internet proficiency, this new funding is expected to deliver additional growth and mass awareness to the Zumba name.

Wix has emerged as one of the fast emerging webtop publishing platform suppliers that offers free webpage builders to subscribers, making it possible for these individuals to quite easily make remarkable flash-based website pages using easy-to-use design templates and a drag-and-drop editing tools. Since its beginnings in 2006 more than fourteen million websites were developed using the Wix system. Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners led a Series D round funding that raised over 40 million dollars capital for Wix. Jeff Horing is Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners and as an institutional investor also sits in on the Board of Directors at Wix. This new inflow of investment capital from Jeff Horing and Insight will be used by Wix for its new social and mobile projects. Users can get added features by investing in the freemium model, the area where Wix gains earnings.

Jeff Horing, Insight Venture Partner’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, has a knack for discovering worthy technology-based firms that they can invest in. Among Insight’s growing lineup of investment portfolio businesses is TeamViewer, where Jeff Horing sits in as member of the Board of Directors. TeamViewer has emerged as the standard tool employed by over 10 million end users all over the globe for providing support and assistance for consumers, suppliers and staff in remote locations. Jeff Horing and Insight’s investment funds in the company shall be used to support TeamViewer in continuously creating high-end products and solutions for remote control, desktop sharing, file transfers, web conferencing and online collaborations.

In his function as venture capital firm Insight Venture Partner’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, Jeff Horing gained extensive experience in leading technology-based companies. Since the company’s inception, Jeff Horing has participated in many of Insight’s investment ventures including SolarWinds Inc. where he serves as Independent Director. SolarWinds is a technological company that generates easy-to-use network management, monitoring and discovery software products and solutions for mid-market customers that include business, military services, government and educational establishments. In his function as a member of the Board of Directors, Jeff Horing offers his investment and business expertise to lead SolarWinds into developing ingenious products and solutions that can help customers reduce downtime, enhance performance, and increase the effectiveness of their network staff.

There is no doubt that social media has created a tremendous impact across the world which includes South America and in the social gaming world, Mentez is certainly making awesome waves. The company is the most significant Internet gaming publisher in Latin America and has more than 22 million weekly regular players. Mentez likewise manages more than seven social games on Facebook and more than 21 social games in Orkut, the foremost social network in Brazil. This growing popularity of this social gaming organization prompted Jeff Horing, Insight Venture Partner’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, to become an institutional capitalist in this company. Now, Jeff Horing takes a seat on Mentez’s Board of Directors and the investments made will support the social gamer in enlarging its collection of social games.

One of the strong traits Jeff Horing has manifested as Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners is his proficiency in identifying IT and technological companies such as Datacore Software that are positioned for enormous advancement in its market. The corporation is a computer software company established in the year 1998 and is slowly emerging as a foremost merchant specializing in data storage management, storage networking and storage virtualization. Jeff Horing has identified this lucrative positioning of Datacore as the favored virtual storage base for desktop virtualization platforms and servers. For this reason, Jeff Horing and his team at Insight Venture Partners poured in new investments in Datacore Software in support of further developments and continuing growth of the technological firm. Jeff Horing takes an active role in this venture as a member of the Board of Directors at Datacore Software.

Jeff Horing is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of leading global private equity and venture capital company Insight Venture Partners. Insight is the sole institutional investor of GFI Software, a technology-based corporation engaged in data security, system security and messaging applications vendor. GFI Software is an awardee of the Microsoft Fusion Packaged Application Partner of the Year award and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This makes this software company worthy of financial investment from Insight as outlined by Jeff Horing, who is likewise a director in this software company. Jeff Horing and Insight will continue to support the corporation in generating innovative products and solutions for eMail spam and virus filter systems as well as security software applications for monitoring and scanning networks.

Sword CTSpace, Inc is a promising document management and collaboration workflow solutions company that assists clients in managing their computerized technical files and database. Most of their clientele are firms involved in construction and engineering processes, providing them with job collaboration, process management, and records management products and services. Insight Venture Partners capitalized in CTSpace with Founding Partner and Managing Director Jeff Horing sitting in this investment portfolio company’s Board of Directors. With more than 13,000 initiatives in 56 countries around the world, Sword CTSpace will likely gain more expansion in their international projects with this investment influx from Jeff Horing and Insight.