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Insight Partners
Venture capital firm · Founded 1995 · Active in 2026
Insight Partners was founded in New York in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. The firm is one of the world's largest software-focused investors, writing Series A through late-stage cheques across enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, fintech, and developer tools, anchored by the Onsite operating-team model.
Insight is structurally late-stage — the firm produces hundreds of Series B+ unicorns and Series B+ $100M+ revenue companies. Because the Dealroom Power Law top 100 ranks Seed → $100M+ revenue outcomes, Insight sits outside the seed-focused list. See where Insight ranks across all stages on the full Power Law page.
Insight’s biggest exits.
Insight portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
+43 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 217 Insight Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA150
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Germany12
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Israel10
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UK8
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India5
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France4
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Australia4
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Sweden2
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Brazil2
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China2
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Netherlands2
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Canada2
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Other B2B Software42
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Cybersecurity35
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Fintech31
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Marketing26
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AI25
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eCommerce & Marketplaces23
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Other10
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Health Tech & Medtech9
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Edtech8
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Transportation4
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Energy2
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Space1
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Series B+163
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Series A32
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Seed3
Insight’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Insight’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 59 companies where Insight is a named shareholder, worth about $17.5B in estimated equity value.
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1
Tricentis
50%
$4.5B
$2.2B
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2
Vinted
13%
$9.4B
$1.2B
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3
Kaseya
56%
$1.8B
$980M
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4
Automattic
11.5%
$7.5B
$862M
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5
Moon Active
14.5%
$5.0B
$725M
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6
OneTrust
15.4%
$4.5B
$693M
- 7 11% $5.6B $616M
- 8 16.5% $3.7B $610M
- 9 28.5% $2.0B $570M
- 10 10.5% $5.2B $546M
- 11 20% $2.6B $520M
- 12 14% $3.5B $490M
Showing the 12 largest of 59 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Insight’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Insight also appears inside investor groups in Cred, Dataiku, Persona, moneyview, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Insight's 217 Power Law outcomes.
How does Insight stack up?
Insight in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Insight's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
477 founders across the 217 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Insight.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Insight Partners
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Insight on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Insight Partners
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Insight — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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