Chegg stands out as the major network for students. Chegg links students to the tools and people required to succeed in higher education. Students use Chegg.com every day of the year for student deals, scholarships, textbook and eTextbook options, course selection, homework assistance and more.
Based in New York City, Buddy Media offers a Software-as-a-Service system. The platform makes it possible for agencies and large brands to manage their engagement with fans on social media. These include Twitter, Facebook as well as other platforms.
Datacore Software develops and delivers the industry’s first hypervisor for storage. Datacore’s storage virtualization software delivers a very simple, high-availability solution to meet vSphere shared storage needs. The software program abstracts storage into idealized, virtual disks comparable to virtual machines.
Insight has their investment in 6waves. This enterprise is a leading worldwide publisher of gaming applications on the Facebook platform. The goal of 6waves is to publish the next generation of social games. 6waves is working together with developers worldwide to build a content portfolio that covers every genre, language, and platform.
Insight Venture Partners closed 2 funds having a combined $2 billion in investor commitments. Insight Venture Partners VII received approximately $1.5 billion of institutional commitments and approximately $70 million of friend and affiliate commitments. Insight Venture Partners Coinvestment Fund II received $450 million in commitments.
Insight Venture Partners, in January 2012, proclaimed the appointments of Richard Wells and Alex Crisses as Managing Directors of the firm. Mr. Wells joined Insight in 2005 after working at Technology Crossover Ventures, Veritas Software and Paciolan Systems. Mr. Crisses is a ten-year veteran at Insight; he specializes in infrastructure software and Internet investments.
Drilling Info accelerates workflows and business critical decision processes for the gas and oil sector. They are among the largest oil and gas databases in the world. Drilling Info has their corporate headquarters in Austin, TX and they have offices throughout the United States oil patch as well as the UK, South America, and Southeast Asia.
Insight has invested in Zumba Fitness, a global lifestyle brand. Zumba joins culture, entertainment and fitness into an energetic dance-party exercise routine. Their classes mix upbeat world rhythms with easy-to-follow choreography. This offers helpful, total-body workouts.
Kinnser Software creates Web-based solutions, which provide clinical and business outcomes for the home health sector. This industry uses Kinnser’s solutions daily to improve revenue, improve communication, support clinical outcomes, and reduce costs. Greater than 55,000 home health professionals depend on Kinnser Software.
Insight Venture Partners is a leading global private equity and venture capital firm. Focusing on Internet and software enterprises, they provide company leaders with capital to expand internationally and domestically. They collaborate with their portfolio companies in Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Recruiting, International Expansion, R&D, Sales, Marketing, and more.
