Chegg stands out as the leading network for students. Chegg.com links students to the tools and people required to achieve in higher education. Students use Chegg every day of the year for homework help, course selection, textbook and eTextbook options, scholarships, student deals and more.
Operating out of New York City, Buddy Media provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system. This particular platform makes it possible for agencies and large brands to control their interaction with fans on social websites. These include Facebook, Twitter as well as other platforms.
Datacore Software develops and delivers the industry’s first hypervisor for storage. Their storage virtualization software delivers a very simple, high-availability way to meet vSphere shared storage needs. The software abstracts storage into idealized, virtual disks similar to virtual machines.
Insight has their investment in 6waves – a major global publisher of gaming applications on the Facebook platform. The aim of 6waves is to publish the next generation of social games. 6waves is collaborating with developers globally to create a portfolio of content that covers every genre, language, and platform.
Insight closed two 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.
Insight Venture Partners, in January 2012, proclaimed the appointments of Richard Wells and Alex Crisses as Managing Directors of the firm. 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 focuses on Internet and infrastructure software investments.
Drilling Info speeds up 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 corporate headquarters in Austin, TX and they have offices across the United States oil patch in addition to the UK, Southeast Asia, and South America.
Insight has an investment in Zumba Fitness, a global lifestyle brand. Zumba Fitness fuses culture, entertainment and fitness into an energetic dance-party workout. Zumba classes blend high-energy world rhythms with easy-to-follow choreography. This offers effective, total-body workouts.
Kinnser Software creates Web-based solutions, which deliver business and clinical results for the home health sector. This industry uses Kinnser’s solutions daily to support clinical outcomes, improve communication, improve revenue, and reduce costs. Over 55,000 home health professionals rely on Kinnser Software.
Insight Venture Partners is a major global private equity and venture capital organization. Focusing on software and Internet enterprises, they provide company leaders with capital to grow internationally and domestically. They collaborate with their portfolio companies in Marketing, Sales, R&D, International Expansion, Recruiting, M&A, Strategy, and more.