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Insight Venture Partners 
30 posts and columns on Insight Venture Partners
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Investor Group Offers $6.9 Billion to Take BMC Private
Software company BMC has agreed to be acquired by a group of four private equity firms. Together, Bain Capital, Golden Gate Capital, GIC Special Investments and Insight Venture Partners have offered to take BMC private at $46.25 a share, a deal that values the company at $6.9 billion, which amounts to a premium of less than 2 percent over BMC’s closing share price on Friday.
Dell’s Go-Private Case Emerged as Business Eroded
A filing shows the process of going private started much earlier than anyone knew.
Everybody’s a Curator: Flipboard’s Mike McCue Talks About New Version of Social Magazine (Video)
I made a magazine about Pop-Tarts. Anyone have a problem with that?
Dell Confirms Buyout Bids From Blackstone and Icahn, Says Each May Top Initial Offer
The buyout plot thickens.
AirWatch, Mobile Device Manager for Enterprises, Raises $200 Million from Insight Venture Partners
There’s a big business in helping big companies wrangle their fleets of iPads and other mobile devices.
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Crowdsourced Video Ad Startup Tongal Raises $15 Million
Tongal, a startup that uses crowdsourcing to create video ads, has raised $15 million from Insight Venture Partners. The five-year-old company, whose clients include Lego, P&G and McDonalds, says it has distributed $3 million to contributors to date, and says revenue grew 400 percent last year.News Byte
Insight Ventures Invests $53 Million in SR Labs, Electronic Trading Player
Insight Venture Partners announced today that it had made a $53 million investment in SR Labs, a company that builds high-performance electronic trading platforms. Founded in 2007, SR Labs serves clients that include hedge funds and investment banks, including Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan. Its specialty is data gathering and trade execution. Deven Parekh, managing director at Insight, and Martin Angert, a principal at the firm, will join SR Labs’ board of directors as part of the deal.Education Site Pluralsight Raises First Outside Funding Ever: $27.5M
The thing about suddenly hot start-up categories is that they’re often home to under-the-radar companies that have been around for years just making it happen.
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Udemy Raises $12M for Online Education Clearinghouse
Udemy, the marketplace for on-demand online courses, has attracted $12 million in Series B funding led by Insight Venture Partners and including Lightbank and MHS Capital. The San Francisco-based company says it has 5,000 courses and 500,000 students, with instructors collectively earning millions of dollars.Smartsheet — Spreadsheets Reimagined — Lands $26 Million From Insight and Madrona
If emailing spreadsheets as attachments is your idea of office collaboration, Smartsheet has something it would like to show you.