Jeff Horing

The largest and most successful dance-fitness phenomenon in more than 125 countries, with more than 12 million participants in over 110 thousand locations, is the Latin-inspired Zumba. The tremendous popularity of this global multimedia dance-fitness party workout persuaded Jeff Horing and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners to put together a minority investment in Zumba Fitness, the firm behind this dance fitness program. Jeff Horing is Insight’s Managing Director and is currently part of the Zumba Fitness Board of Directors. This new investment decision and Insight Venture Partners’ technology and Internet expertise are expected to deliver further growth and mass attention to the Zumba program.

Insight Venture Partners led a Series D round financing that garnered over 40 million dollars in funding for WebTop publishing platform supplier Wix. Insight, as corporate capitalist, has Managing Director Jeff Horing sitting in on the Board of Directors of Wix. Since its inception in 2006, over 14 million sites were created using the Wix online website builder where end users can easily create awesome flash-based internet sites using easy-to-use templates and a drag-and-drop web editing tool. End users can get added features by availing of the freemium model, the facility where Wix gains profits. The new funding from Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners will be used by Wix for its new social and mobile network ventures.

Insight Venture Partners is among the institutional capitalists in the corporation behind TeamViewer, with Insight Venture Partners Managing Director Jeff Horing taking part as member of the Board of Directors of TeamViewer. TeamViewer is very popular as the standard tool used by more than ten million end users worldwide for providing support and assistance for clients, vendors and staff in remote locations. The funding provided by Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners in SolarWinds shall be used in improving the company’s infrastructure in continuously creating high-end solutions for remote control, desktop sharing, file transfers, web conferencing and online collaborations.

Jeff Horing has substantial experience in directing technical companies in his role as Managing Director for venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners. This makes him hugely qualified as Independent Director for SolarWinds Inc., one of Insight Venture Partners’ portfolio companies. SolarWinds supplies user-friendly network management, monitoring and discovery software applications for mid-market clients that include business, armed forces, government and educational organizations. As member of the Board of Directors, Jeff Horing offers his financial and business expertise to steer SolarWinds into developing creative products that can help customers minimize network outages, monitor its overall performance, and improve the effectiveness of their network staff.

Jeff Horing is a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners and has developed a solid reputation in recognizing IT and technical companies like Datacore Software that are poised for remarkable advancement in its industry. Founded in 1998, Datacore Software has emerged to be among the top software vendors specializing in storage management, storage networking and storage virtualization. Perceiving this profitable positioning of Datacore Software as the preferred virtual storage foundation for desktop virtualization platforms and servers, Insight Venture Partners made new financial investments in the company, with Jeff Horing taking part as a member of Datacore Software’s Board of Directors.

6 Waves (Hong Kong 6 Waves Inc.) is one of the top global social gaming publishers operating independently on the Facebook platform. 6 Waves is a venture-backed company and one of its major 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 features a collection of more than 20 published social games with more than fifty million avid users worldwide each month. Jeff Horing and Insight poured in a $17.5 million investment in the company to support 6 Waves’ global expansion by creating a more robust infrastructure and distribution pipeline.

Mentez is the largest social gaming publisher in South America and one of its corporate investors is New York-based business capital company Insight Venture Partners. Jeff Horing, Insight’s Founding Partner and Managing Director, will manage Insight’s interests in the company by being part of Mentez’s Board of Directors. Mentez currently handles over seven social games on Facebook and more than twenty one social games in Orkut, the major social network in Brazil, and has over 22 million active players every week. The funding made by Jeff Horing and Insight in Mentez will assist 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 corporate capitalist of data security, network security and messaging software provider GFI Software. Insight’s Co-Founder 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 previous winner of the Microsoft Fusion Packaged Application Partner of the Year award. Jeff Horing and Insight Venture Partners have invested well in GFI Software and will continue to support the firm in producing innovative products for e-mail spam and virus filters as well as security software for monitoring and scanning networks.

Jeff Horing has a kind of experience in venture capital investments that is vital in building technical investment expertise. Additionally, better insight in technical infrastructure can be achieved by building this proficiency on top of a good foundation of education. Such building block is what Jeff Horing obtained 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 Massachusetts with the full-time MBA program as its largest. Jeff Horing also 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.

Together with Jerry Murdock, Jeff Horing started venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners and is also currently performing the role of Managing Director concentrating on online gaming, mobile technologies, Internet, technology and software business opportunities. Jeff Horing is likewise engaged in numerous portfolio companies serving as a member of the Board of Directors representing Insight. Under his guidance, Jeff Horing drove Insight Venture Partners to become one of the premiere private equity firms concentrated in technology, cyberspace and software industries. Since Insight Venture Partners started out, the organization raised over 3 billion dollars to invest in several portfolio companies.