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Insight Partners

Venture capital firm · New York, USA · Founded 1995 · Active in 2026

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208 Power Law outcomes Late-stage focused · 208 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Enterprise value ↑ 10% 5y
$1.6T
Unicorns ↑ 34% 5y
191
Decacorns ↑ 8% 5y
13
Thoroughbreds ↑ 33% 5y
202
Featured in Late-stagePower Law Investor Ranking · Cross-stage · 2026 202Power Law outcomes (mostly Series B+)

Insight Partners was founded in New York in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. The firm is one of the world's largest software-focused investors, writing Series A through late-stage cheques across enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, fintech, and developer tools, anchored by the Onsite operating-team model.

Insight is structurally late-stage — the firm produces hundreds of Series B+ unicorns and Series B+ $100M+ revenue companies. Because the Dealroom Power Law top 100 ranks Seed → $100M+ revenue outcomes, Insight sits outside the seed-focused list. See where Insight ranks across all stages on the full Power Law page.

Portfolio analysis

The 208 Insight Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue and above).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA144
  2. Germany12
  3. Israel10
  4. UK7
  5. India5
  6. France4
  7. Australia4
  8. Brazil2
  9. China2
  10. Switzerland2
  11. Netherlands2
  12. Ireland2
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software41
  2. Cybersecurity34
  3. Fintech30
  4. Marketing24
  5. AI24
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces23
  7. Health Tech & Medtech9
  8. Edtech8
  9. Other7
  10. Transportation4
  11. Energy2
  12. Biotech & Life Sciences1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+157
  2. Series A32
  3. Seed3
01 · Portfolio market map

Insight's 208 Power Law outcomes.

Toggle between a sector landscape and a world map. Both views respond to the stage and outcome-tier filters. The faded names at the bottom of bigger boxes are part of the full list — click "+ N more" to reveal them.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
208 of 208 Power Law outcomes
Logos hosted by Dealroom; click any chip to open the company in app.dealroom.co. The dot inside each chip shows the company's highest tier — red Gigacorn, violet Centicorn/Decacorn, lavender Unicorn, blue Thoroughbred, green Colt. Tiers are inclusive: a Unicorn (e.g. Klarna) also matches the Thoroughbred filter, a Decacorn also matches Unicorn and Thoroughbred, and so on up the ladder. Colt is a separate axis (high-growth, smaller revenue) and only matches itself. Map dots use the same colour code; hover for details. Sectors are mutually exclusive (priority-ordered classification). Stage entered = the round Insight first invested in (where data is available — coverage 93%).
02 · Origin of portfolio founders

Where Insight's founders come from — and where they study.

490 founders across the 208 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States156
Israel60
India42
Germany34
France31
United Kingdom19
Argentina15
Sweden11
Spain11
Canada10
+20 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University23
Berkeley14
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem12
Technion Israel Institute of Technology9
Harvard Business School8
Harvard University8
Stanford University Graduate School of Business7
University of Münster6
Tel Aviv University6
University of Cambridge6
+198 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft34
Alphabet | Google25
Rocket Internet8
Apple7
Amazon7
Palantir7
Yahoo!6
Hortonworks6
OpenAI6
SAP5
+151 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company. Explore the full Sequoia infographic on Thoroughbreds & Unicorns →
04 · Compare with peers

How does Insight stack up?

Insight in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — filter by region or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of global unicorns minted that year — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Share of new unicorns per year

% of all global unicorns minted that year, year by year
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

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Data as of 15 Apr 2026 · Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset · Methodology
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