Insight Capital

Insight Partners is a global private equity and venture capital firm established in 1995, specializing in growth-stage investments in the software, internet, and data services sectors. Headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, the firm manages over $75 billion in assets and has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide. Insight Partners focuses on partnering with high-growth technology and software companies that are driving significant change in their industries. The firm aims to support visionary executives by providing practical, hands-on expertise throughout their growth journey, from initial investment to public offering. With a strong commitment to fostering a culture of growth and opportunity, Insight Partners has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve IPO status.

Anika Agarwal

Managing Director

Liad Agmon

Managing Director

Praveen Akkiraju

Managing Director

Daniel Aronovitz

Principal

Scott Barclay

Managing Director

Eugenia Bejar

vice_president

Whit Bouck

Managing Director

Trent Buenzli

vice_president

Dave Cates

Vice President

Lydia Chen

Associate

Cian Cotter

Managing Director

Eoin Duane

Managing Director

Jason Ewell

Venture Partner

Tyler Faught

vice_president

Brad Fiedler

Principal

Blair Flicker

MD and General Counsel

Daniel Francis

Senior Associate

Henry Frankievich

Managing Director

Josh Fredberg

Managing Director

Matthew Gatto

Managing Director

Rachel Geller

Managing Director

Jonathan Grossman

Principal & Head of Valuation Group

Connor Guess

vice_president

Evan Hahn

Principal

Drew Harman

Venture Partner

Erica Harris

Investment Professional

Ryan Hinkle

Managing Director

Michaela Hirsh

Senior Associate

Philine Huizing

Principal

Kevin Hurth

Vice President of Capital Markets

Todd Joseph

Technology Principal

Emmet Keeffe III

Venture Partner

Matt Koran

Principal

Nikitas Koutoupes

Managing Director

Thomas Krane

Managing Director

Mark Lessing

Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director

Jeffrey Lieberman

Managing Director

Jennifer Liu

Controller

Rebecca Liu

Former Senior Analyst

Rebecca Liu-Doyle

Managing Director

Alexandra Lundin

vice_president

AJ Malhotra

Managing Director

Julian Marcu

vice_president

George Mathew

Managing Director

Stuart Mayer

Principal of Finance

Euan Menzies

Managing Partner

Dylan Morris Ph.D

Managing Director

Stu Phillips

Managing Director

Stuart G. Phillips

MD

Benjamin Pruzan

Investment Associate

Ryley Reynolds

Principal

Jared Rosen

Principal

Sophia Samutin

Investment Analyst

Ian Sandler

Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director

Krishnan Sastry

Managing Director

Hagi Schwartz

Managing Director

Peter Segall

Managing Director

Thilo Semmelbauer

Managing Director

Michael Shephard

Principal

Nicole Shimer

Principal

Dean Shu

Senior Onsite Associate

Jenna Sigman

EVP, Insight Onsite

Nicholas Sinai

Venture Partner

Theresa Smith

Sales Principal

Donna O. Smolens

Senior Advisor

Peter Sobiloff

Managing Director

David Spiro

Managing Director

Andrew Starker

vice_president

Gary Survis

Operating Partner

Philip Tom

Associate

Boris Treskunov

Managing Director

Michael Triplett

Managing Director

Stephen Ward

Managing Director

Teddie Wardi

Managing Director

Richard Wells

Managing Director

Allyson White

Vice President

Nicolas Whittenborn

VP

Jacqueline Wibowo

Investment Analyst

Max Wolff

Principal

Michael Yamnitsky

Managing Director

Josh Zelman

Principal

Past deals in District of Columbia

Shift5

Series B in 2022
Shift5, Inc. develops cyber security products and systems for the defense industry. The company offers a data recorder, Shift5 Intake, which collects, stores, and transmits embedded data bus in real time to detect intrusion; and Shift5 Engine, a rule based and model based analytics for the detection of cyber attacks on internal communication networks. It also develops cyber security software solutions, including Shift5 Gauge Cluster for data capturing and analytics. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

Jellyfish

Series C in 2022
Jellyfish, Inc. specializes in developing an engineering management platform that enhances visibility and alignment between engineering teams and business objectives. The platform integrates with various tools to track tasks, analyze performance, and visualize resource allocation, thereby enabling leaders to make informed decisions based on data from product planning, issue tracking, and human resource systems. By providing insights into engineering operations, Jellyfish helps organizations improve productivity, strategic alignment, and overall efficiency in software delivery. Founded in 2007, the company is based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Washington, D.C.

Carto

Series C in 2021
From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business happens. CARTO is the platform that turns spatial data into more efficient delivery routes, better behavioral marketing, strategic store placements, and much more. Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts solve spatial problems using CARTO’s data and analysis to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science. Backed by leading VC firms Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, CARTO is the world’s leading Location Intelligence platform. Founded in 2012 by an environmental scientist and visualization experts, CARTO is headquartered in New York City with offices in Madrid, Seville and Washington DC. CARTO has a team of 130 employees, a portfolio of 2,500 customers including BBVA, BCG, New York City, and Twitter and more than 350,000 users around the globe - and has regularly been recognized by Gartner and Forrester for its innovation in the Location Intelligence space.

Rebellion Defense

Venture Round in 2021
Rebellion Defense, Inc. is a software company founded in 2019, headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Seattle and London. It specializes in developing artificial intelligence and machine learning software products designed to support national defense missions for the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies. The company's solutions focus on analyzing, securing, and transporting data relevant to national security and defense, providing innovative tools to enhance operational capabilities in this critical sector.

DNSFilter

Series A in 2021
DNSFilter, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based content filtering and threat protection solution designed to enhance online safety and manage web experiences. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the company utilizes artificial intelligence to deliver intelligent web content filtering and security threat protection. Its platform offers features such as real-time domain analysis, protection against malware, phishing, and botnet attacks, as well as the capability to block inappropriate content across networks. DNSFilter serves a diverse clientele, including businesses, service providers, and educational institutions, helping them safeguard their users from online threats while maintaining visibility for IT teams. The service also supports networks with dynamic IP addresses, ensuring comprehensive protection in various environments.

DNSFilter

Venture Round in 2021
DNSFilter, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based content filtering and threat protection solution designed to enhance online safety and manage web experiences. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the company utilizes artificial intelligence to deliver intelligent web content filtering and security threat protection. Its platform offers features such as real-time domain analysis, protection against malware, phishing, and botnet attacks, as well as the capability to block inappropriate content across networks. DNSFilter serves a diverse clientele, including businesses, service providers, and educational institutions, helping them safeguard their users from online threats while maintaining visibility for IT teams. The service also supports networks with dynamic IP addresses, ensuring comprehensive protection in various environments.

Class.com

Series A in 2021
Class.com specializes in online learning solutions, offering a range of courses that include core subjects, electives, and skills development. The company also provides program implementation services to enhance the educational experience. A key feature of Class.com is its integration with Zoom, allowing educators to utilize Class software within the Zoom Meetings platform. This integration facilitates various educational activities such as taking attendance, distributing assignments, administering quizzes or tests, grading, proctoring exams, and engaging in one-on-one discussions with students. Through these offerings, Class.com aims to support and improve the online teaching and learning process.

Jellyfish

Series B in 2021
Jellyfish, Inc. specializes in developing an engineering management platform that enhances visibility and alignment between engineering teams and business objectives. The platform integrates with various tools to track tasks, analyze performance, and visualize resource allocation, thereby enabling leaders to make informed decisions based on data from product planning, issue tracking, and human resource systems. By providing insights into engineering operations, Jellyfish helps organizations improve productivity, strategic alignment, and overall efficiency in software delivery. Founded in 2007, the company is based in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Washington, D.C.

CloudBolt

Series B in 2020
CloudBolt provides solutions to help enterprises manage and govern their hybrid cloud and optimize their automation strategy. With CloudBolt, companies can configure and manage private and public cloud resources—quickly, securely, and cost-effectively—while empowering DevOps and end-users with self-service provisioning environments. Today, CloudBolt is deployed in the world’s largest enterprises, across all industries, including financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology services, and more.

Inky

Series B in 2020
Inky is a cyber-security company that secures email against phishing. It is a cloud-based email security platform that make Inky Phish Fence, an email protection gateway that uses sophisticated AI, machine learning, and computer vision algorithms to block deep sea phishing attacks that get through every other system. Inky Phish Fence can either quarantine suspicious emails or deliver them with disabled links and user-friendly warnings. It is easy to deploy for Office 365, Exchange, or G Suite. Inky was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in College Park, Maryland.

StormForge

Series B in 2020
StormForge, formerly Carbon Relay, brings together world-class data scientists and software engineers to enable businesses to drive breakthrough IT and operations efficiency. The StormForge Platform is set apart by its unwavering focus on building AI-powered software products that are designed to help people, not replace them. The Platform is built to help DevOps teams release with confidence and IT leaders to realize the promise of cloud-native – faster innovation with higher quality, resiliency, scalability, and efficiency. The company's solutions uniquely occupy a middle ground between machine and human intelligence where they leverage the strengths of both for maximum effectiveness. The StormForge Platform uses machine learning to drive major application performance gains and cost reductions in complex environments in development so that you can release with confidence. In February 2020, StormForge announced funding (as Carbon Relay) from Insight Partners to accelerate the growth of its Platform. StormForge was founded in 2015 and is based in Cambridge, MA, Washington, DC and Cologne, Germany. Learn more at: https://www.stormforge.io/.

The Athene Group

Venture Round in 2018
Athene is a technology development company that offers a range of tailor-made, strategies and consultation services to help businesses across diverse industries tackle their customer relationship management (CRM) and cloud-based challenges. Skience, the company’s Salesforce-based, data aggregation, and books and records solution, makes itself valuable to the wealth management industry by gathering and then filtering important data to optimize client reporting processes. Athene also helps organizations strategize, implement, and support cloud solutions in their businesses.

Interfolio

Acquisition in 2018
Interfolio is the provider of the most advanced workflow and shared governance technology for faculty and universities. Interfolio offers the first holistic Faculty Information System to support the full lifecycle of faculty work—from hiring to annual review, service, activity reporting, scholarly data collection and validation, and more. Interfolio defines and leads the market for faculty-first technology. As the higher education market transitions from legacy, on-premise technology to the cloud, Interfolio is quickly becoming a critical part of the enterprise IT stack by providing agile, scholar-centric SaaS solutions. Currently, Interfolio works with hundreds of institutions, including Johns Hopkins, Brown, Dartmouth, the University of Virginia, and Stanford.

EveryAction

Venture Round in 2018
EveryAction offers best-in-class digital, multi-channel fundraising, organizing, and advocacy tools on a single, unified CRM. Thousands of nonprofits like Greenpeace, Planned Parenthood, the National Audubon Society, and others use EveryAction each day to raise more money and drive more action.

LeaseAccelerator

Series B in 2018
LeaseAccelerator is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of lease lifecycle management, lease administration, and free cash flow. It eliminates ad hoc spreadsheets and databases and delivers visibility through a centralized database. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

CloudBolt

Series A in 2018
CloudBolt provides solutions to help enterprises manage and govern their hybrid cloud and optimize their automation strategy. With CloudBolt, companies can configure and manage private and public cloud resources—quickly, securely, and cost-effectively—while empowering DevOps and end-users with self-service provisioning environments. Today, CloudBolt is deployed in the world’s largest enterprises, across all industries, including financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology services, and more.

Thycotic

Venture Round in 2015
Thycotic Software Ltd. specializes in secure enterprise password management solutions, providing tools designed to enhance security and streamline IT operations. Its flagship product, Secret Server, enables IT administrators to manage passwords effectively, while the Password Reset Server allows end-users to reset passwords independently. The company also offers the Browser Stored Password Discovery Tool, which alerts IT professionals to passwords stored in browsers, and the Group Management Server, facilitating active directory management. Additionally, Thycotic Identity Bridge simplifies authentication across various operating systems. With a focus on privilege management, Thycotic serves over 10,000 organizations globally, including small businesses and Fortune 100 companies, by helping them mitigate risks associated with privileged accounts and comply with security policies. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., Thycotic also has offices in London and Sydney, providing professional services for software training and integration.

Metalogix

Venture Round in 2008
Metalogix provides industry-recognized management tools for mission-critical collaboration platforms. These tools are engineered and supported by experts committed to the rapidly evolving deployment and operational success of our clients. Metalogix' world-class tools and client service have proven to be the most effective way to manage increasingly complex, and exponentially growing metadata and content across collaboration platforms. For over a decade, Metalogix has developed the industry's best and most trusted management tools for SharePoint, Exchange, and Office 365, backed by our globally acknowledged live 24x7 support. Over 14,000 clients rely on Metalogix Tools every minute of every day to monitor, migrate, store, synchronize, archive, secure, and backup their collaboration platforms. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Partner, an EMC Select Partner, and a GSA provider. Our Client Service division of certified specialists is the winner of the prestigious NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for World Class Excellence in Customer Service.

SecureInfo

Series C in 2007
SecureInfo Corporation provides information assurance solutions. It provides strategic advisory services, which include security program creation and management, policies and procedures, architecture and design, and FISMA preparedness assessments; threat management services, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, code review and assessment, incident response, and CSIRC development; and certification and accreditation solutions, such as certification and accreditation services, IV&V services, SecureInfo RMS, training and awareness, and SI-CAP. SecureInfo Corporation, Inc. has strategic partnership with L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Perot Systems, SAIC, and SRA International, Inc. The company serves the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Department Of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, FEMA, U.S. Coast Guard, NASA, The Peace Corps, Library of Congress, National Weather Service, U.S. Treasury, and U.S. Secret Service. SecureInfo Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas with additional offices in McLean, Virginia.

SecureInfo

Series B in 2005
SecureInfo Corporation provides information assurance solutions. It provides strategic advisory services, which include security program creation and management, policies and procedures, architecture and design, and FISMA preparedness assessments; threat management services, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, code review and assessment, incident response, and CSIRC development; and certification and accreditation solutions, such as certification and accreditation services, IV&V services, SecureInfo RMS, training and awareness, and SI-CAP. SecureInfo Corporation, Inc. has strategic partnership with L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Perot Systems, SAIC, and SRA International, Inc. The company serves the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Department Of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, FEMA, U.S. Coast Guard, NASA, The Peace Corps, Library of Congress, National Weather Service, U.S. Treasury, and U.S. Secret Service. SecureInfo Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas with additional offices in McLean, Virginia.

Digital Harbor

Series B in 2005
Digital Harbor, Inc. provides risk management and compliance solutions for the financial services, industry, and public sector clients. It develops and markets PiiE, a platform for composite applications, which provides information integration solution and information management system for enterprises. The company’s products include Smart Client, a composite application interface layer that provides a standards-based method for delivering Internet applications; and Fusion Server, a composite application engine that manages integrated set of services for information integration and management. It offers solutions for anti-money laundering, fraud, knowing customer, enterprise case management, and risk management to the financial services industry; and solutions for insider threat, command and control, incident management, mission management, analyst workbench, logistics, and network centric operations to the federal government, intelligence community, homeland security, and public work organizations. Digital Harbor also provides support, implementation, and training services. In addition, it has a strategic alliance with eFunds Corporation to deliver fraud investigation solutions to the banking industry. Digital Harbor, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of July 31, 2007, Digital Harbor, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Norkom Group Plc (ISE:N5OK).

SecureInfo

Series A in 2003
SecureInfo Corporation provides information assurance solutions. It provides strategic advisory services, which include security program creation and management, policies and procedures, architecture and design, and FISMA preparedness assessments; threat management services, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, code review and assessment, incident response, and CSIRC development; and certification and accreditation solutions, such as certification and accreditation services, IV&V services, SecureInfo RMS, training and awareness, and SI-CAP. SecureInfo Corporation, Inc. has strategic partnership with L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Perot Systems, SAIC, and SRA International, Inc. The company serves the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Department Of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, FEMA, U.S. Coast Guard, NASA, The Peace Corps, Library of Congress, National Weather Service, U.S. Treasury, and U.S. Secret Service. SecureInfo Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas with additional offices in McLean, Virginia.

Digital Harbor

Series A in 2002
Digital Harbor, Inc. provides risk management and compliance solutions for the financial services, industry, and public sector clients. It develops and markets PiiE, a platform for composite applications, which provides information integration solution and information management system for enterprises. The company’s products include Smart Client, a composite application interface layer that provides a standards-based method for delivering Internet applications; and Fusion Server, a composite application engine that manages integrated set of services for information integration and management. It offers solutions for anti-money laundering, fraud, knowing customer, enterprise case management, and risk management to the financial services industry; and solutions for insider threat, command and control, incident management, mission management, analyst workbench, logistics, and network centric operations to the federal government, intelligence community, homeland security, and public work organizations. Digital Harbor also provides support, implementation, and training services. In addition, it has a strategic alliance with eFunds Corporation to deliver fraud investigation solutions to the banking industry. Digital Harbor, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of July 31, 2007, Digital Harbor, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Norkom Group Plc (ISE:N5OK).