Insight Partners

Founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock in New York, Insight built its identity on outbound sourcing long before that was common practice - in the firm's earliest years, the two co-founders would comb through trade publications by hand looking for software companies that were hiring, and therefore growing. That research-driven, find-them-before-anyone-else approach scaled into a firm managing tens of billions of dollars, still built around the same instinct to spot momentum early.

$90B+ AUM 82/100 Power Score™ 1995 Founded New York, NY
Software SaaS Cybersecurity
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Signature Exit

Shopify's 2015 IPO, one of the defining e-commerce software exits of the decade

Key Partners & Leadership

Jeff Horing
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Jerry Murdock
Co-Founder (Managing Director until 2011)

Firm Timeline

1995
Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock found the firm in New York, betting early on B2B software.
1995-2000
Sources deals by manually reading trade publications for software companies that were hiring.
2015
Portfolio company Shopify goes public, one of the firm's defining software exits.
2025
Assets under management surpass $90 billion, with over 875 companies invested in to date.

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