Jeff Horing

The biggest and most profitable dance-fitness phenomenon in over 125 countries, with over twelve million enthusiasts in more than 110 thousand locations, is the Latin-inspired Zumba. The popularity of this worldwide multimedia dance-fitness party workout persuaded Jeff Horing and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners to make a minority investment in Zumba Fitness, the company behind this dance-fitness program. Jeff Horing is Insight’s Managing Director and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Zumba Fitness. This latest investment decision and Insight Venture Partners’ technology and online know-how are expected to deliver even more growth and mass attention to the Zumba Fitness brand.

Insight Venture Partners led a Series D round financing that garnered more than 40 million dollars in capital for WebTop publishing platform supplier Wix. Insight, as corporate investor, has Managing Director Jeff Horing taking part as a member of the Board of Directors of Wix. Since it began in 2006, over 14 million internet sites were generated utilizing the Wix online website builder where users can easily create amazing flash-based websites using easy-to-use templates and a drag-and-drop editing tool. Customers can readily get additional features by purchasing the freemium model, the service where Wix gets its profits. The new investment from Jeff Horing and Insight will be used by Wix for its new social media and mobile network projects.

Insight Venture Partners is one of the institutional capitalists in the company behind TeamViewer, with Insight Managing Director Jeff Horing participating as member of TeamViewer’s Board of Directors. TeamViewer is very popular as the standard tool used by more than 10 million users worldwide for giving support and assistance to customers, suppliers and staff in remote areas. The investments made by Jeff Horing and Insight in SolarWinds will be used in improving the company’s systems in continuously building high-end software solutions for remote control, desktop sharing, document transfers, internet conferencing and online collaborations.

Jeff Horing has considerable knowledge in directing technological businesses in his duty as Managing Director for New York-based Insight Venture Partners. This makes him hugely qualified as Board of Directors’ member for SolarWinds Inc., one of Insight’s portfolio company investments. SolarWinds offers easy-to-use network management, monitoring and discovery software solutions for mid-market customers that include commercial, military, government and academic institutions. As member of the Board of Directors, Jeff Horing extends his financial and business skills to direct SolarWinds into developing innovative products that can help customers minimize network outages, monitor its performance, and boost the effectiveness of their network staff.

Jeff Horing is a Managing Director at Insight and has built a solid reputation in determining IT and technological companies like Datacore Software that are positioned for incredible growth in its market. Founded in 1998, Datacore Software has emerged to be among the leading software vendors focused in storage management, storage networking and storage virtualization. Perceiving this profitable positioning of Datacore Software as the favored virtual storage framework for desktop virtualization systems and servers, Insight made new investments in the company, with Jeff Horing participating as a member of the Board of Directors at Datacore Software.

6 Waves (Hong Kong Six Waves Inc.) is one of the top international social gaming publishers doing business independently on the Facebook platform. 6 Waves is a venture-backed company and one of its leading institutional investors is New York-based Insight Venture Partners led by Co-Founder and Managing Director Jeff Horing, who also sits on the 6 Waves Board of Directors. 6 Waves boasts a selection of more than twenty published social games with more than fifty million avid gamers from around the globe each month. Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners poured in a $17.5 million investment in the company to assist 6 Waves’ global expansion by creating a more robust infrastructure and distribution pipeline.

Mentez is the biggest social gaming publisher in South America and among 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 at this time operates over 7 social games on Facebook and more than twenty one social games in Orkut, the major social network in Brazil, and has more than twenty two million weekly active players. The funding made by Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners in Mentez will support the social gamer in expanding its portfolio of social games to benefit from the broad market opportunities in Latin America.

Insight Venture Partners is the sole corporate investor of content security, network security and messaging software vendor GFI Software. Insight’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, Jeff Horing, serves 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 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 with supporting the company in producing innovative solutions for e-mail spam and virus filters together with security software for monitoring and scanning systems.

Jeff Horing has a kind of knowledge in business capital investment strategies that is certainly vital in establishing technical investment skills. Additionally, greater understanding in technical infrastructure can be obtained by building this expertise on top of a strong groundwork of education. Such cornerstone is what Jeff Horing received when he earned 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 Cambridge, Massachusetts with full-time MBA as its largest program. Jeff Horing at the same time carries dual undergraduate degrees from the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business where Jeff graduated with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa.

Together with Jerry Murdock, Jeff Horing established investment capital firm Insight Venture Partners and is also now performing the role of Managing Director specializing in online gaming, mobile technologies, Internet, technology and software business opportunities. Jeff Horing is also engaged in various portfolio companies serving on the Board of Directors as Insight representative. Under his leadership, Jeff Horing led Insight to emerge as one of the main private equity investors focused in technology, online and software businesses. Since Insight Venture Partners started out, the corporation produced over 3 billion dollars to invest in several portfolio companies.