Insight Partners

👻 Happy Halloween from Insight Partners! We had a blast at our annual Portfolio Company Costume Contest yesterday. It was definitely a spooky success. Can you guess any of the portfolio companies?

October was a great month for Insight’s portfolio! Congratulations to our portfolio companies who were recognized for their achievements.   📣 Camunda and Workato were both recognized as Visionaries in the first-ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. 📣 Chargebee was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Recurring Billing Applications. 📣 Delinea and Keeper Security, Inc. were recognized in the latest Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privileged Access Management. 📣 Elisity was named a winner of the SINET16 Innovator Award for its disruptive approach to Zero Trust network security. 📣 Haus was named to LinkedIn’s Top Startups 2025 list. Learn more about these wins on our blog: https://lnkd.in/e-CSCFMB Congratulations again to these stellar ScaleUps!

“[Enterprises] have so many vulnerabilities — hundreds of thousands of them,” says Cyclops Security Cofounder and CEO Eran Zilberman. “So how do [they] know what is critical?" Founded by Eran Zilberman, Elay Gueta, and Biran Franco, Cyclops is building an AI-driven platform that gives security teams a clear, unified view of their risk landscape — so they can prioritize what matters most. By simplifying how complex security data is analyzed and acted on, Cyclops is helping companies move from reactive defense to proactive protection.

“An attacker only has to get it right once. A defender has to get it right every time," says Command Zero's Alfred Huger. Founded by cybersecurity veterans Alfred Huger, Dov Yoran, and Dean De Beer, Command Zero was built to solve one of the industry’s biggest challenges: scaling human expertise through automation. Their mission is simple but ambitious — empower security teams to focus on complex investigations, not repetitive tasks.

As agentic AI systems begin to make decisions, take actions, and even collaborate autonomously, a new challenge is emerging: How do we secure a world where software behaves like a teammate? In this new post, Managing Director George Mathew, William Blackwell, Ash Tutika, and Hunter Korn explore the fast-evolving landscape of AI Agents —and what it means for cybersecurity, identity, and governance. 🔍 They unpack: • Why AI security now extends beyond models to include agent identity, orchestration, and observability • How non-human identities are reshaping enterprise risk • Where founders and security leaders can innovate in this new frontier of agentic AI If you’re building or investing in AI, this is essential reading for understanding what’s next in trust and safety.

For the fifth consecutive year, Insight Partners has been named to Inc. Magazine's Founder-Friendly Investors list. As we mark 30 years of software investing, this recognition is a reminder of what has guided us from the start: a deep commitment to partnering with visionary founders and CEOs as they turn bold ideas into transformative, enduring software businesses. Insight Managing Director Jeffrey Lieberman told Inc.'s Graham Winfrey that when evaluating investment firms, founders should prioritize getting to know the person behind the deal: "The firm is important. The person is even more important. A truly founder-friendly investor is someone who will be transparent about what’s in the best interests of the firm, and what’s in the best interests of the founder." We’re proud to be a trusted partner to our portfolio of software leaders, supporting them with the capital, operational expertise, and global network they need to accelerate growth. Thank you for continuing to trust us on your ScaleUp journeys. 🔗: https://lnkd.in/eEnGiN2b

In this week’s Onsite Hour, we examined how marketing leaders are rewriting the 2026 playbook and turning efficiency gains into strategic leverage.   Hosted by Insight Partners’ Dustin Zaloom and Pax Kaplan-Sherman, the session shared new benchmarks that quantify how marketing performance has changed in the AI era — and what it means for planning, resourcing, and growth.   📊 The numbers tell a clear story: • $1.1M in ARR per Marketing FTE, up nearly 25% year over year • Program spend now 48% of total marketing investment (vs. 46% last year) • Program budgets up 15%, while people budgets remain nearly flat • Marketing’s share of total S&M spend steady at 28%, reflecting sustained efficiency   Leading marketing organizations connect their plans to strategic GTM levers by using data as a strategy and aligning impact to business outcomes.   We’ve got 500+ open Marketing & Communications roles across the Insight portfolio. Join a company where marketing leaders turn planning into performance—aligning strategy, spend, and scale for the year ahead: https://lnkd.in/dWpEb-SQ

AI Agents: The Execution Layer — What Enterprise Leaders Need to Know Join Insight Partners’ Managing Director Praveen Akkiraju for a virtual briefing on how to re-architect your systems for secure, scalable, multi-agent environments — and what it takes to move from experimentation to enterprise-scale execution. 🗓️ Date & Time: 29 October 2025, 12:45-1:15 PM ET Praveen will share his perspective on: 🔹 The execution layer that makes agents reliable, secure, and governed. 🔹 Designing for autonomy, control, and scale in complex enterprise systems. 🔹 The architectural patterns shaping the next generation of intelligent infrastructure. Seats are limited — save your spot now: https://lnkd.in/eURXrbkE This session is the second in Insight Partners’ three-part investor briefing series on the future of AI Agents — featuring insights from Ganesh Bell, Praveen Akkiraju, George Mathew, and Lonne Jaffe. View the full series here: https://lnkd.in/eSK9EthQ

Congratulations to Darwin AI, a leader in public sector AI governance, on its Series A raise! We're thrilled to be leading this round in Noam Maital, Asaf Fadida & team as they continue enabling governments to harness AI safely and at scale.

This week, we wrapped another successful ScaleUp Suite at HLTH USA — Insight Partners’ private space designed to fuel meaningful meetings and collaboration across the health ecosystem.   We were proud to partner with A Place for Mom, Alma, BrightInsight, Lantern, Optain, PhaseV, PictorLabs Inc, Proscia, and Riviera Partners to bring this year’s suite to life — creating an environment where founders, investors, and healthcare leaders could connect, share insights, and accelerate what’s next in health innovation. A huge thank-you to everyone who joined us and helped make the #ScaleUpSuite a hub of energy and ideas throughout HLTH.    Next stop: ScaleUp Suite at JPM Healthcare. Want to join us there? DM us for an invite.