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George Mathew

Managing Director at Insight Partners. Deep operator turned venture capitalist. Company builder & (former) angel investor.

New York, New York

Overview 

George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, known for his transition from a deep operator to a successful venture capitalist. He has built a reputation as a company builder and has made impactful investments in various successful companies such as Ory Corp and Weights & Biases. With a background in analytics and enterprise software, George Mathew has played a key role in the growth and success of companies in sectors like IoT, AI, and data services. His strategic investments in companies like Acceldata and Shoreline.io highlight his expertise in identifying and nurturing promising startups.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director

    2021 - Current

    Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries.

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup companies.

  • Investor

    2021

    We co-led Series J + invested in Series H. Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 5,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems.

Databricks is an AI cloud data platform that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.

Raised $3,997,000,000.00 from Firestreak Ventures and Bossa Invest.

  • Board Observer

    2021

    Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world. For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, the modern data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code.

Astronomer develops a data orchestration platform that helps with the deployment, management, and scaling of distributed airflow services.

Raised $282,900,000.00 from Meritech Capital Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Insight Partners, Sierra Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JP Morgan, K5 Global, Venrock and FirstMark.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Honeycomb provides full stack observability—designed for high cardinality data and collaborative problem solving, enabling engineers to deeply understand and debug production software together. Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, we empower every engineer to instrument and query the behavior of their system.

Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems.

Raised $146,900,000.00 from Storm Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Dominik Richter, Headline, Guillermo Rauch, Insight Partners and Industry Ventures.

  • Investor

    2024

    AI Agents reimagined for enterprises.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Fastino powers enterprise AI developers with high-performance, task-optimized language models built to scale. Unlike generic LLMs, Fastino’s models are engineered for accuracy, speed, and security, delivering near-instant CPU inference and flexible deployment across environments.

  • Board Member

    2025

    HoneyHive is the leading AI observability and evaluation platform, trusted by next-gen AI startups to Fortune 100 enterprises. We make it easy and repeatable for modern AI teams to debug, evaluate, and monitor AI applications and deploy AI to production with confidence.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Our vision is to give shape to the world’s qualitative data, making it simple to discover and understand. 80% of data is qualitative, in the form of text, images, audio or video. Using the power of AI vectors, we can reveal the semantics of qualitative data with minimal labelling or training, making it easier and more affordable for businesses of any size. Our AI-first semantic search product enables any business to have Google-like search functionality on their website, app or enterprise software solution without the need to code or configure.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Acceldata has created the world's first Data Observability Cloud, helping data-driven enterprises achieve operational excellence, innovation agility, and higher returns on data investment. Acceldata's data observability tools use purpose-built analytics and monitoring to optimize embedded AI and analytics workloads.

Acceldata ensures data pipeline and analytics quality with observability solutions, enhancing accuracy and reliability for businesses.

Raised $105,560,000.00 from Prosperity7 Ventures, Sanabil, March Capital, Insight Partners and Industry Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Metabase is bringing data tools with the elegance and simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. Our Open Source analytics and business intelligence application let installs in minutes, and can connect to most commonly used databases. It lets anyone in your company quickly ask questions, and create dashboards or nightly emails without knowing SQL. We provide an opinionated open source starting point for how companies should measure, analyze and share their data as well as a suite of tools to deal with the complexity that arises as they grow.

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