Jeff Horing
Co-Founder and Managing Director·Insight Partners
Bio
Professional summary
Jeff Horing has been a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Insight Partners since 1995. Under his leadership, Insight has grown into a major venture capital and private equity firm focused on software and internet businesses. His official profile states that his areas of focus include data, analytics, mobile, infrastructure and SaaS software across Europe, North America and Israel. He is also associated with Insight Onsite, the firm’s operating support function for scaling portfolio companies. Selected partnerships listed by Insight include Alteryx, Conga, DocuSign, JFrog, Monday.com and Wiz.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
Sector
Thesis
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Lead with evidence that the company can become a category-defining software platform at scale. The strongest pitch should connect a large market, repeatable software economics and the founder’s plan for building a durable company across regions or enterprise segments.
Partneralization hooks
- 1Reference Insight’s long-running software-scale thesis.
- 2Map the company to data, analytics, infrastructure or SaaS categories.
- 3Use selected partnerships such as DocuSign, Monday.com, JFrog or Wiz as relevant scale analogies.
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