Chegg is the leading network for students. Chegg links school students to the tools and people required to succeed in college. Students utilize 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 provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. This platform makes it possible for agencies and large brands to manage their engagement with fans on social websites. This includes Twitter, Facebook and other platforms.
Datacore Software develops and offers the sector’s first hypervisor for storage. Their storage virtualization software offers a very simple, high-availability solution to meet vSphere shared storage requirements. The software program abstracts storage into idealized, virtual disks similar to virtual machines.
Insight Venture Partners has their investment in 6waves – a major international publisher of gaming applications on the Facebook platform. The aim of 6waves is to publish the next generation of social games. 6waves is working together with developers globally to build a content portfolio that covers every genre, language, and platform.
Insight Venture Partners closed 2 funds with 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.
In January 2012, Insight Venture Partners announced the appointments of Mr. Richard Wells and Mr. Alex Crisses as Managing Directors of the company. Mr. Wells joined up with Insight in 2005 following working at Technology Crossover Ventures, Veritas Software and Paciolan Systems. Mr. Crisses is a ten-year veteran at Insight. He targets infrastructure software and Internet investments.
Drilling Info quickens workflows and business critical decision processes for the oil and gas sector. They are one of the largest gas and oil databases worldwide. Drilling Info has their headquarters in Austin, Texas and they have offices across the United States oil patch as well as the United Kingdom, South America, and Southeast Asia.
Insight has an investment in Zumba Fitness, a worldwide lifestyle brand. Zumba combines culture, entertainment and fitness into a vibrant dance-party exercise routine. Their classes combine upbeat world rhythms with easy-to-follow choreography. This offers helpful, total-body workouts.
Kinnser Software produces Web-based solutions, which deliver clinical and business results for the home health industry. This industry utilizes Kinnser’s solutions day-to-day to support clinical outcomes, improve communication, improve revenue, and lower costs. Greater than 55,000 home health professionals depend on Kinnser Software.
Insight Venture Partners is a major worldwide venture capital and private equity organization. Concentrating on software and Internet companies, they provide company leaders with capital to grow internationally and domestically. They collaborate with their portfolio companies in Strategy, M&A, Recruiting, International Expansion, R&D, Sales, Marketing, and more.