Chegg stands out as the major network for students. Chegg connects students to the individuals and tools required to succeed in college. Students make use of Chegg.com every day of the year for homework help, course selection, textbook and eTextbook options, scholarships, student deals and more.
Based in NYC, Buddy Media offers a Software-as-a-Service platform. This platform enables large brands and agencies to manage their engagement with fans on social networks. This includes Twitter, Facebook as well as other platforms.
Datacore Software develops and delivers the industry’s first hypervisor for storage. Datacore’s storage virtualization software delivers a very simple, high-availability solution to meet vSphere shared storage requirements. The software abstracts storage into idealized, virtual disks much like virtual machines.
Insight Venture Partners invested in 6waves – a leading international publisher of gaming applications on the Facebook platform. The objective of 6waves is to publish the next generation of social games. 6waves is working together with developers throughout the world to create a content portfolio that covers every genre, language, and platform.
Insight Venture Partners announced closing two funds having a combined $2 billion in investor commitments. Insight Venture Partners VII received around $1.5 billion of institutional commitments and around $70 million of affiliate and friend 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 firm. Mr. Wells joined up with Insight in 2005 following working at Technology Crossover Ventures, Veritas Software and Paciolan Systems. Mr. Crisses is a 10-year veteran at Insight; he focuses on Internet and infrastructure software investments.
Drilling Info accelerates workflows and business critical decision processes for the gas and oil sector. They are among the largest oil and gas databases worldwide. Drilling Info has their corporate headquarters in Austin, TX and they have offices across the U.S. oil patch in addition to the UK, Southeast Asia, and South America.
Insight has an investment in Zumba Fitness, a worldwide lifestyle brand. Zumba Fitness joins culture, entertainment and fitness into a lively dance-party workout. Zumba classes blend upbeat world rhythms with easy-to-follow choreography. This provides useful, total-body workouts.
Kinnser Software creates Web-based solutions that provide clinical and business outcomes for the home health sector. This sector employs Kinnser’s solutions day-to-day to improve revenue, improve communication, support clinical outcomes, and lower costs. More than 55,000 home health professionals depend on Kinnser Software.
Insight Venture Partners is a leading global private equity and venture capital firm. Centering on software and Internet enterprises, they provide enterprise 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.
