Date | Title | Description |
10.01.2023 | Six Best Practices for Your First 90 Days as a Data Leader | For newly hired data leaders, the first 90 days are crucial. For existing data leaders, it’s prudent... |
28.12.2022 | 2022: Year in Review at Insight | 2022 is (nearly) a wrap! Insight Partners concludes 2022 with more than 750 investments over the fir... |
23.12.2022 | How to Select an Investor in 2023 | As the frenetic investment pace of the last few years slows, investors, CEOs, and founders are takin... |
20.12.2022 | Move Over Quiet Quitting: These are the 2023 Trends to Watch... | 2022 was another wild year. From the “Great Resignation” to inflation, talent acquisition and human ... |
14.12.2022 | 8 Tech Investors Share Predictions for 2023 | 2022 was a busy year for the team at Insight. As hype started to build around the use of AI in our e... |
08.12.2022 | Pay Transparency is Here to Stay. How Can You Build Salary R... | Pay transparency. It’s a topic on many HR leaders’ minds. With a renewed focus on inequality in pay,... |
05.12.2022 | [Recording] Winning in 2023: Sales KPIs for Sustainable Grow... | Prediction: “Efficient growth” will be a buzzy phrase for SaaS startups in 2023 – and for good reaso... |
29.11.2022 | Setting Quotas in B2B SaaS Sales When Facing High Exchange R... | Key Insights:
While typically normal changes in foreign exchange rates (FX) have limited impacts on ... |
28.11.2022 | Behind the Investment- Software Defined Automation- Bringing... | The explosive demand for developer operations (or “DevOps”) tooling stems from a logical sequence of... |
21.11.2022 | Enterprise Mindset: 3 Questions a Former Credit Suisse CIO A... | This post is a special feature of Insights Distilled, a weekly tech-focused email briefing for busy ... |
17.11.2022 | Head of Enterprise Applications: An Often Untapped Orchestra... | Key Insights:
Many scaleups are seeing the need for a new role to handle daunting internal systems c... |
15.11.2022 | Behind the Investment: Banked – Re-Imagining Payments for th... | In 1958 Visa was founded as a bank consortium with an ambitious mission: create a network so extensi... |
10.11.2022 | Meet Insight’s Third Cohort of Defense Ventures Fellows | Key Ideas
Insight Partners participates in the Defense Ventures program, which offers immersion oppo... |
09.11.2022 | SaaS Pricing Tactics for a High-Inflation Environment | Key Takeaways
● Inflation is at its highest level in 40 years, creating a different environment for... |
07.11.2022 | (Recording) Hack your Bureaucracy: Why Learning to Navigate ... | From working with large VC firms to signing on enterprise customers, entrepreneurs need to learn how... |
07.11.2022 | Behind the Investment- AiVF | IVF is a challenging process from start to finish. Embryologists must make pivotal decisions at each... |
04.11.2022 | For What It’s Worth: The Importance of Explaining the Value ... | Employee equity is a popular incentive for ScaleUps, and for good reason. It helps companies take pr... |
03.11.2022 | Behind the Investment: Canary Technologies – Bringing Hotels... | Every day our lives are becoming more efficient and seamless through technology – we can tap a few b... |
01.11.2022 | Sales Compensation Planning: 4 Learnings from ScaleUp Softwa... | It’s sales compensation planning season! Insight Partners and QuotaPath, a sales compensation manage... |
26.10.2022 | 6 Steps to Getting Sales Rep Hiring Right | Sales reps are the most expensive GTM resources and the backbone of growth, yet all too often sales ... |
25.10.2022 | Quantity vs. Quality: Should We Lower Our Lead Score Thresho... | Lead scoring is a critical tool for scaling companies of all sizes to ensure efficient funnel perfor... |
25.10.2022 | Behind the Investment – Fermyon | Sixteen years since AWS launched EC2, the cloud has become a complex ecosystem that can be daunting ... |
20.10.2022 | 7 Habits of Effective Data Leaders | CxOs are realizing every executive in the organization is a data leader in the age of digital transf... |
19.10.2022 | Behind the Investment: Relevize – The Future of Channel Acti... | With escalating competition at the global stage and increasingly demanding revenue targets, enterpri... |
18.10.2022 | Behind the Investment: Jasper | If you're not familiar with generative AI, it's time to get acquainted. Generative AI is a branch of... |
17.10.2022 | Selling to the CIO: Practical Tips from Insight Partners’ CI... | Getting into the mind of your buyer is critical in today’s technology sales world. For many of Insig... |
14.10.2022 | Digital Hats for CFOs | The CFO's special province has traditionally been tied to fiscal matters in a bid to boost company p... |
11.10.2022 | Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month with OUTsight | The month of October is dedicated to recognizing LGBTQ+ community icons throughout history. Compared... |
10.10.2022 | ScaleUp by the Numbers: SaaS Sales KPIs for Startups at Ever... | The data in this report helps SaaS leaders measure, understand and compare the right sales KPIs to s... |
05.10.2022 | The Importance of Partner Ecosystem Management- Behind The I... | At the most basic level, a partner ecosystem is a network of complementary businesses, where members... |
27.09.2022 | Think Like a Candidate: Why a Strong Employer Brand Is a Mus... | The past year shifted the way we think about work. From where we physically work to our relationship... |
26.09.2022 | 4 Key Takeaways for Sales and Marketing from SaaStr | In-person conferences are back. If the almost 10,000 people at SaaStr — the outdoor, festival-like c... |
26.09.2022 | Behind the Investment: Idoven – Improving Cardiovascular Car... | Hundreds of millions of EKGs are performed worldwide each year, and they all have the same purpose: ... |
19.09.2022 | The 2022 R&D Trends and Operational Foundations Report | This R&D Investment and Operational Trends report takes last year's report and expands on the in... |
16.09.2022 | Why It’s Up to the CxO to Get Enterprise Architecture Right... | This article originally appeared in Digital CXO.
It’s an exciting time for startups, particularly f... |
16.09.2022 | Founders & CEOs: Here’s Why You Need to Get Enterprise A... | A version of this article originally appeared in Digital CXO.
Founders and CEOs need visibility int... |
16.09.2022 | Insights from Inbound 2022: Connecting with Your Prospects, ... | During the past two years, one of the leading marketing conferences in the country went virtual. Hub... |
08.09.2022 | Managing Cloud-Based Gross Margins While Scaling Operations | In every born-digital SaaS ScaleUp, cloud computing costs can grow to be the single largest expense ... |
08.09.2022 | ScaleUps Use Tech to Lower Cloud Costs and Improve Customer ... | Cloud computing continues to outpace other technology spending categories as organizations invest in... |
31.08.2022 | Behind the Investment: Privado | Software has continued to expand into all parts of the world from mobile phones and websites to hous... |
30.08.2022 | Insights from Pulse 2022: CS Is the Foundation of Sustainabl... | Durability is top of mind for organizations in 2022. Over the last several years, we have endured a ... |
30.08.2022 | Behind the Investment: Devicie – Intune Native Device Manage... | With the proliferation of connected devices, the explosion of best-of-breed B2B applications, and th... |
24.08.2022 | Analyst Relations Unlocks ScaleUp Superpowers | Many ScaleUps think of analyst relations (AR) as a black box. They might know they need to engage wi... |
10.08.2022 | ScaleUp Guide to Sales KPIs | This ScaleUp Guide to Sales KPIs takes our yearly Sales KPI Report and adds great context around the... |
10.08.2022 | Wiz Hits $100M ARR in Just 18 Months | Hitting $100M ARR is a rare and significant achievement for any software company, but when that mile... |
09.08.2022 | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Building Diverse Pipeline... | In recent years, there’s been a renewed focus on addressing social injustice, triggering an examinat... |
08.08.2022 | Scaling Up AI Businesses: What We’ve Learned So Far | This article originally appeared in Digital CXO.
Insight Partners’ investments in a few dozen artif... |
04.08.2022 | Introducing the 2022 Post-Sales GTM Report | "If a company focuses on 'understanding what customers need and delivering it,' revenue growth ... |
28.07.2022 | Choosing the Right Media Agency | Whether you’re a B2B or B2C company, finding the right media agency can be a daunting task. The shee... |
14.07.2022 | What Marketers Need to Know About AI-Generated Content | Recent advancements in machine learning have meant that AI has gotten better at writing content that... |
12.07.2022 | People Matter: Prioritizing Human Capital Along with Investm... | In 2022, the world has clearly changed with continued volatility in the economy and public equity ma... |
06.07.2022 | CMO Playbook for Economic Headwinds: Make Your Move Before I... | Our reward for navigating a life-altering pandemic is a combo of events unlike any other. We just ca... |
29.06.2022 | Behind the Investment: Appsmith – Enabling the Next Billion ... | Internal tools. If you’re an employee of a 10+ person company in any function using software, you pr... |
29.06.2022 | Maintaining Employee Engagement in Uncertain Times | From a hyper-growth, candidate-led market to the current macroeconomic headwinds (e.g., supply chain... |
27.06.2022 | The 1-Day Strategy Sprint: Framework, Process, and Tools | As ScaleUp operating strategists, we spend a good bit of time working with senior executives and fun... |
24.06.2022 | TradeLink Tackles Supply Chain Inefficiency | Modern supply chains are as disconnected as ever. Stakeholders continue to rely on outdated technolo... |
23.06.2022 | Design(stripe) for the rest of us | This year will mark 40 years since Adobe was founded. In the decades since, Adobe has been the most ... |
23.06.2022 | Insight Partners Launches Government Advisory Board | We’re delighted to announce the creation of the Insight Partners’ Government Advisory Board (GAB), w... |
21.06.2022 | Strategic Technology Cost Optimization for Long-Term Growth | Optimizing technology costs has always been an ongoing priority for CxOs. In 2022, it shifted from v... |
21.06.2022 | Where Product Launches Are Missing the Mark – 6 Ways to Ampl... | Growing your offerings doesn’t guarantee you’ll grow your business. New features and products increa... |
20.06.2022 | Voices With Vision – In Honor of Juneteenth | On June 18th 2022, Insight Partners hosted a digital event to commemorate Juneteenth. At Insight, we... |
13.06.2022 | RSA 2022: Lessons From The Frontline | Don’t tell anyone in San Francisco this week that the economy could be careening towards a recession... |
08.06.2022 | SOC 2 Compliance For Security Builds Trust for ScaleUp Growt... | Maintaining security, privacy and confidentiality are three of the most pressing challenges tech Sca... |
31.05.2022 | Tips for Extending Runway | May is over, along with the bull-market, which means the cost of capital has increased. This is rele... |
31.05.2022 | SOC 1 Compliance Boosts Startup Trust and Growth | Enterprise and consumer clients often require more reassurance that companies are doing their due di... |
27.05.2022 | Running Effective Deal Reviews | Whether it’s the end of the month, quarter, or year, sales organizations are always asking the same ... |
26.05.2022 | Behind the Investment: Snappt – Protecting Property Managers... | Financial fraud is a huge problem in the US rental market, costing property managers up to billions ... |
26.05.2022 | What is a Partner Advisory Board & Why You May Need One | Does your B2B tech company host a Partner Advisory Board (PAB), or Partner Advisory Council (PAC)? I... |
23.05.2022 | Do You Have to Pay the Apple Tax? It’s Complicated. | Back in 2020, Epic Games sued Apple in a blockbuster lawsuit.
Epic’s gripe was with the 30% commiss... |
19.05.2022 | Establishing, Scaling and Measuring the Impact of Community-... | In the past year, community-led growth has emerged as a hot topic for SaaS companies in all stages o... |
17.05.2022 | Pre-IPO Planning Today? Yes… CMOs Have Work to Do. | What a difference a few months can make. From one of the hottest IPO markets in history to an almost... |
06.05.2022 | How to Become a Data-Driven Company: A Conversation with Per... | The world’s most sophisticated fighter jet, the F-35, costs ~$130M, flies at Mach 1.6 (~1.2K MPH), a... |
06.05.2022 | How to Become a Data-Driven Company | The world’s most sophisticated fighter jet, the F-35, costs ~$130M, flies at Mach 1.6 (~1.2K MPH), a... |
03.05.2022 | Behind the Investment: Coda Payments – Building a Global Net... | Smartphones are gateways to the world. In seconds, you can chat with someone on the other side of th... |
26.04.2022 | The ScaleUp Guide to Community-Led Growth | In the past year, community-led growth has emerged as a hot topic for SaaS companies in all stages o... |
26.04.2022 | Four Key AI Challenges and How the Talent Shortage Impacts T... | When COVID first hit, many fast-growing software ScaleUps braced for significant declines in top-lin... |
25.04.2022 | Investing in Healthtech: Seeding and Scaling Healthcare at t... | Insight Partners had a banner year, with more than $50 billion in capital commitments and over 200 i... |
22.04.2022 | CleanTech Innovation & Investment | Our best hope for solving some of our planet’s most challenging problems is technology, and no one k... |
14.04.2022 | It’s a Wrap! Three Key Takeaways from ScaleUp:AI | Last week, Insight Partners had the pleasure of hosting over 1,700 individuals at ScaleUp: AI, our i... |
13.04.2022 | 7 Secrets to Form a Great Customer Advisory Board | Advisory boards are incredibly useful to get insight in a meaningful way from a relatively small gro... |
06.04.2022 | Customer Advisory Boards: How to Launch and Manage a Success... | While Customer Advisory Boards, or CABs, have become a popular and widely used method of magnifying ... |
06.04.2022 | Customer Advisory Boards: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of C... | While Customer Advisory Boards, or CABs, have become a popular and widely used method of magnifying ... |
31.03.2022 | The Great Resignation: Strategies to Retain Your Top Talent | The past two years have been a rollercoaster for HR leaders. From the furloughs and layoffs of 2020 ... |
30.03.2022 | The Rise of The Digital Worker to Scale Process and Systems ... | The magnitude of the global business problems we face today requires solutions at scale. Imagine in ... |
29.03.2022 | Production Ops, Finally- Behind the Investment: Shoreline | You don’t need to be a developer or devOps investor to know that software developers like to spend t... |
25.03.2022 | Investing in Cybersecurity: A Look into 2022 | Insight Partners had a banner year, with more than $50 billion in capital commitments and over 200 i... |
25.03.2022 | How Improving the Developer Experience Is Key to Saving Time... | Most businesses today are driven by technology. In the fastest-growing companies, the speed and qual... |
25.03.2022 | Innovation Operations: Communicate | In 2021, Insight Partners published a four-part toolkit for running a successful, innovative operati... |
24.03.2022 | Real Talk from the Top | The path to leadership is not a straight line. It's a series of twists and turns that are a result o... |
24.03.2022 | Active Duty at Insight (Part 2) | The Defense Ventures Fellows program is an immersion program for active-duty military service member... |
24.03.2022 | Behind the Investment: Astronomer | In the last decade, we’ve seen the rise of the Modern Data Stack where cloud-native data warehouses ... |
23.03.2022 | From Zero Abstraction to Island: It’s about time cybersecuri... | Cyber security in theory should be simple – attack surface expands as software and cloud workloads c... |
18.03.2022 | CIO Secrets for Selling to the Enterprise | The traditional role of the CIO is changing and with it comes the responsibility of not only develop... |
14.03.2022 | How to Track ARR & Quota Credit for Non-Standard Renewal... | Determining annual recurring revenue (ARR) and quota credit is straightforward when every renewal ha... |
10.03.2022 | Investing in Crypto: A Look into 2022 | With more than $50 billion in capital commitments across over 200 investments throughout 2021, Insig... |
07.03.2022 | Accelerating Value with Value Gap Mapping | In our previous article introducing the S.C.A.L.E. model, we noted that the principle of Accelerated... |
24.02.2022 | 11 Ways to Improve B2B Sales Linearity | Every sales organization is hyper-focused on achieving its overall booking goals for a given period.... |
24.02.2022 | Why a Lack of Cybersecurity Poses an Existential Threat to Y... | Fundamental security flaws in technical environments could have a massive impact on the global econo... |
24.02.2022 | The Grand Workplace Redesign with NYT Bestselling Author, Ti... | People’s approach to work is changing. As leaders, we have a generational opportunity to embark on T... |
24.02.2022 | Marketing to the Elusive CISO: 8 Tips from Former CISO Steve... | Knowing your buyer is not a significant challenge in some industries, but one persona that we repeat... |