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Fund: Insight Venture Partners
Posted by Anonymous on 2008-02-21
I had originally pitched George McCulloch and his Analysts. Both guys were easy to pitch, great at getting back to me, and didn't over burden me with requests to supply a lot of company confidential information. George let me know that we are good fit, but weren't quite large enough for Insight and if I wanted to, I could check back in 6 months when we were larger.
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Posted by anon on 2007-10-22
Insight Ventures typically invests only $10M+ in companies, so if you're looking for less than that then they shouldn't be on your shortlist. That said, they are starting to flirt with smaller financings, and my experience with them so far has been positive. They have lots of connections, so even if they don't fund you they might refer you to new business or another funding source.
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Posted by gnaspo on 2007-09-06
I have worked with Insight for almost three years. I have worked on a couple of their portfolio companies and have found the support to be incredibly helpful.
Mike Triplett and Hilary Gosher have served on my board and offered solid advice and great support. I have also worked with Peter Sobiloff and found him with a wealth of knowledge in sales/marketing. Others within the firm such as Larry Handen, Scott Maxwell (now with OpenView), Deven Parekh and Jeff Horing all have offered support and encouragement.
I believe that when Insight decides to make an investment in you and your company they intend to help you take it to the next level.
Exceptional Team
Fund: Insight Venture Partners
Posted by linebacker on 2007-07-20
As one of their portfolio company CEO's, I have had an opportunity to work with Insight for over 3 years and have found them to be an exceptional team on many fronts. They have always shown integrity in negotiations, set appropriate expectations, never changed deal terms, and have been strong advocates for making decisions that are in the best interests of the Company. I have found them to be sophisticated and smart investors who bring a great deal of financial savvy and operational experience to their portfolio companies. While providing strategic insight, they have always deferred to management to make operating decsions and run the company. Over the years we have been able to leverage their internal resources on numerous occasions and have found them to be a huge value add. Peter Sobiloff and George McCulloch sit on our board.
They have been very supportive to management initiatives, as well as bringing significant value add as we scaled the Company through a period of exceptional growth.
First Class Group
Fund: Insight Venture Partners
Posted by danwalter1 on 2007-07-07
I have found these guys to be a first class group of investors. I have been a part of a company historically that was funded in large part by Insight Ventures and found them to be highly knowledgeable and interested in the business. I think that Mike Triplett, Ben Levin and Jeff Horing were the best and highly "Insightful" in their advice and not overly involved in daily management.
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Fund: Insight Venture Partners
Posted by jhi247 on 2007-07-05
Insight has invested in my firm a few years back. Triplett was appointed to our board. They are tough to do business with - but once on board fair and extremely supportive. In total this was a good experience for us.
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Posted by thermocline on 2007-05-08
A few years back we got a term sheet from these guys and almost took their funding. In the end we turned them down mostly because of our experiences with Jerry Murdock. Every time we met or spoke with him he tried to reduce the original terms. We took another term sheet because we simply felt we couldn't trust the management at their firm. It felt like we were dealing with a used car salesman when we had to deal with Jerry.
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