Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with high-growth technology, software, and internet companies. Headquartered in New York City with additional offices, the firm has backed more than 800 companies.
Operating Partner at Insight Partners and Founder of Insight IGNITE
Brad Fiedler
Senior Investment Associate
Brad is a managing director at Insight Partners, where he previously served as a senior investment associate. He also holds board positions at Sparetech, Reveal, Shipium, and The Modern Milkman.
Lonne is a managing director at Insight Partners. He also serves as a board director for several companies, including Overjet, Iterative Health, and Anjuna Security.
The financing round was led by Insight Partners with participation from a16z Speedrun, Atomico, Begin Capital, and Zero Prime.
"As more and more models launch, devs can have tens or even hundreds of endpoints to integrate with and maintain. Runware solves this problem by delivering access to all the models, at the best price, with the best inference time. We see model providers now moving to our platform and offering their APIs from our inference pod, because we can deliver 90% lower inference cost than any cloud provider."
The oversubscribed round was led by TCV with participation from Insight Partners and existing investors.
"The way software is built is fundamentally changing, making artifact management mission-critical for developers, cybersecurity professionals, and platform engineers alike. Enterprises need real-time observability, security, and control over their software supply chain. This new investment will help us to keep scaling up to meet the needs of the world’s largest and most complex organizations."
The series D round values the business at $1.1bn and featured backing from Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Insight Partners, and Sierra Ventures.
"By helping the market to understand how to strategically use rebates for growth, and by demonstrating the financial outcomes our customers are achieving, we’re bringing to light what effective rebate management can deliver. Our customers average a 4x return on investment, save more than 40 hours a month, and can immediately return $300,000 or more. With this round of funding, we will drive even more financial outcomes for companies that are feeling the crunch of the supply chain and wanting to invest in their growth and partnerships."
Insight Partners led the funding round, with participation from GK Goh Ventures, to support product development and digital partnerships.
"This additional funding provided by Insight Partners will pave the way in helping fill this 'communication to action gap' and create a connected, intelligent approach to make trade go faster. The increased investment comes at a critical time as the shipping industry undergoes a quantum leap in the way it conducts its operations as a result of the fast-evolving pandemic, geopolitical tensions, climate change and the impact of AI,"
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the Series E round with participation from Insight Partners and Georgian.
"Tractable’s AI has helped millions recover faster from accidents and natural disasters. In SoftBank we have a partner who understands the full application set of our technology at a granular level, combined deep networks within the insurtech, automotive and property sectors. I’m excited by what we can achieve in redefining trust and transparency to support people in managing the life cycles of their cars and homes."
The funding round was led by Qatar Investment Authority with participation from Iconiq Capital, Jungle Ventures, and Insight Partners.
"Builder.ai was founded on the promise that everyone should be empowered to unlock their human potential. Today this means being able to build software to be able to do more with less. We are entering an incredible time in history where the very notion of software is changing; from something that had a shelf life of years to what will eventually have a shelf life of a conversation and the volume of what is being created is only going to grow exponentially"
The investment round was led by Notion Capital and will fund product development and North American expansion.
"In a more challenging software market, SaaS businesses are balancing growth with profitability, making pricing an ever-more valuable lever. Hybrid and usage-based pricing are now firmly in the spotlight because of their ability to deliver better customer experiences while reducing churn and increasing revenue, and as their popularity continues to grow, the opportunity for m3ter is obvious. Today’s funding enables us to take our ambitions to the next level, making new pricing models accessible for every software business that needs them."
The London-based fintech company secured the funding from Insight Partners to support its expansion into new geographies.
"Insight Partners is an amazing global firm withsuch strength in the payments and fintech space. To increase our share price in thiscurrent market with overwhelming demand from investors, I couldn’t be happier tohave Insight onboard to build what is a multibillion-dollar opportunity. I am alsoexcited that Citi, NAB and Rapyd are joining as it shows that Banked has realstrength in working with the biggest and best banks and payment firms in theworld."
The financing round was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from a group of prominent institutional investors.
"The Genesis platform is already trusted by leading institutions from Citi, who is also a strategic investor from previous funding rounds, and ING to Alliance Bernstein and B3 to speed innovation and accelerate delivery of purpose-built financial markets applications,"
Kindred Capital led the seed round to support international expansion and product development at m3ter.
"Usage-based pricing offers huge rewards for SaaS businesses, but it isn’t easy to implement. We experienced the pain ourselves when building our previous startup, but we also saw what good tooling can look like at AWS. Today, we’re proud to launch m3ter so that all SaaS businesses can intelligently deploy and manage usage-based pricing."
The Series A round was co-led by Index Ventures and Insight Partners to broaden the company data coverage.
"The market is one of the world’s most powerful tools against climate change. But we need reliable data to determine the quality of carbon offsets, in order to incentivize people to invest in the projects that are actually doing good – and to reward the project developers doing good work."
The $1bn financing round was supported by a consortium of global investors led by firms such as Altimeter and GIC.
"At our core, we help enterprise merchants to navigate the complexity of moving money around the world, whether in fiat currency or bridging the gap to Web3,"
Insight Partners led the £8.5m Series A round to support growth and technological advancement at Monolith AI.
"Deriving insight from data for decision-making is a complex but necessary challenge for engineering organisations. Engineers understand the data, they are embedded in the business and have the intuitions necessary to know why to process and model data. Democratising Al, by empowering engineers to be self- sufficient in building and deploying Al solutions, helps engineering organisations drive digital transformation more efficiently than other currently available solutions."
The Series B round was led by Insight Partners with participation from Stride.VC, Chalfen Ventures, and the SAP.iO fund.
"Uncoordinated digitisation has made business noisier. Email is broken, chats are a mess, and getting work done is hard. SEDNA’s single digital workspace makes business communication flow. Our intelligent and collaborative email stream breaks down silos so our customers work faster. We’re excited to work with Insight – a true scale partner that understands how our platform will deliver enormous value to customers in this complex world."
The Series B round was co-led by Insight Partners and Dawn Capital to support platform innovation and hiring.
"When we launched Ably five years ago, we had a clear vision that realtime interactions would underpin rather than just augment our everyday digital experiences. Today, our most important daily and digital experiences happen in realtime. It’s business critical now, and organizations realize they must keep up and transform to remain relevant,"
Insight Partners and Georgian led the Series D round, which values the company at $1bn.
"Tractable’s accelerating growth at scale is a testament to the power and differentiation of their applied machine learning system, which continues to improve as more businesses adopt it. We’re excited to double down on our partnership with Tractable as they work to help the world recover faster from accidents and disasters that affect hundreds of millions of lives."
Insight Partners led the Series C financing, which included participation from Menlo Ventures, Citi Ventures and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
"With cyber risk becoming a problem for a growing number of business functions, cybersecurity knowledge and skills should no longer be the preserve of a few technical people hidden away in a back office. Everyone from the teams who build software, to the CEO, now need to play their part in addressing a pervasive company issue. This requires unlocking and evidencing skills in a much broader group of people."
The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from ETF Partners and Simon Murphy.
"Consumers are reassessing their consumption, and they expect the businesses they buy from to help them on that journey. The Modern Milkman combines a focus on great customer experience with a business model that is suited to significant expansion to meet the needs of customers across the UK and beyond, and we are delighted to be supporting the company on the next stage of its growth."
The London software business has closed a Series C round backed by Insight Partners and existing shareholders to fund international growth.
"At Insight Partners, we invest in fast-scaling software companies. The Pollinate platform creates white-labelled digital marketplaces for the business customers of the world’s largest banks"
— Emmet Keeffe III, Operating Partner at Insight Partners and Founder of Insight IGNITE
Insight Partners led a strategic investment exceeding £100m alongside Farview Equity Partners and Livingbridge to scale global operations.
"This has been an extraordinary year for everyone, from the healthcare challenges created by the pandemic to how businesses have adjusted to the new world of work,"
Coatue led the Series B funding round to support product development and strengthen the balance sheet.
"I’m thrilled to welcome Coatue to our cap table. As meaningful investors in late-stage tech companies such as Instacart, DoorDash, Bytedance and Chime they bring a wealth of experience in building world-class businesses driven by operational excellence. They share our vision for a future of connected payments which made them an obvious choice as partners for us."
Insight Partners led the Series C round, which included participation from Augmentum Fintech, Kennet Partners, and CIBC.
"The addition of Augmentum alongside our current investors, Insight, Kennet and CIBC, strengthens our board and will help us meet our ambitious growth goals, following a stellar 2019."
Insight Partners led the Series C financing to support international growth and product expansion.
"This is a leap forward in our growth plans for 2020 and beyond. With Xavier, Receipt Bank gives accountants the tools to offer better business advice based on better quality data at every step."
The record-breaking Series A round was led by Insight Partners and DST Global with participation from GIC and Blossom Capital.
"We have been fortunate to have some of the world’s leading investors approach us for some time but our focus has remained on building the very best suite of products we can for our merchants on four continents. Having built a sustainable business, one hire at a time, it was crucial to find partners that share our vision of how enterprise businesses will consume financial services in the future. We have anticipated this from our early days and have designed Checkout.com’s platform from the outset so that we can easily deliver incremental services to our customers as the company expands its offering."