8 Tech Investors Share Predictions for 2023 | Insight Partners
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Lonne Jaffe
Managing Director at Insight Partners
New York, New York
Overview
Lonne Jaffe is a Managing Director at Insight Partners in New York, overseeing investments in various sectors including Retail, BioTech, and Security. With a Master's and Bachelor's degree from Harvard University, he has led successful investments in companies like Overjet, Tractable, and Zest AI, showcasing his expertise in Mergers & Acquisitions and Venture Capital.
Work Experience
Managing Director
2017 - Current
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of June 30, 2023, the firm had over $80B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 800 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work with visionary executives, providing them with tailored, hands-on software expertise along their growth journey.
Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup companies.
Board Director
2021
Anjuna makes the public cloud secure for business. Software from Anjuna Security effortlessly enables enterprises to safely run even their most sensitive workloads in the public cloud. Unlike complex perimeter security solutions easily breached by insiders and malicious code, Anjuna leverages the strongest hardware-based secure computing technologies available to make the public cloud the safest computing resource available anywhere.
Anjuna enables organizations to securely embrace the cloud by leveraging confidential computing technologies without changing applications.
Raised $67,120,000.00 from Playground Global, SineWave Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, M Ventures, Alpha Intelligence Capital, Insight Partners, Founder Collective, Playground Global, Insight Partners and Uncorrelated Ventures.
Board Director
2019
Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world’s largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies.
Board Observer
2021
Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences. Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production by over 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs.
Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
Raised $152,000,000.00 from Bossa Invest.
Board Director
2018
CentralReach is the leading cloud-delivered electronic health record, clinical analytics, and practice management software suite for clinicians and educators focused on applied behavioral analysis, occupational therapy, and speech therapy
Central Reach is a health information research and data development organization.
Board Director
2019
Glia creates digital-first moments that simplify and transform communications between financial institutions and their customers using Messaging, Video, Voice, CoBrowsing, and Artificial Intelligence. Fortune 500 companies that have high-consideration sales and support experiences need to deliver choice, continuity, and speed to their customers. Glia transcends the channel discussion to focus on what matters – customers. Glia is backed by leading venture capital investors including Insight Venture Partners, Tola Capital, Wildcat Capital Management, and Grassy Creek, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. Glia is headquartered in New York City and has additional offices in Tartu and Tallinn, Estonia
Glia creates customer service technology for financial institutions.
Raised $152,025,000.00 from RingCentral Ventures, Insight Partners and Wildcat Capital Management.
Board Director
2021
Iterative Health is a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence-based precision medicine for gastroenterology with the aim of helping to optimize clinical trials investigating treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The technology is also designed to potentially enhance colorectal cancer screenings. Its powerful, proprietary artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies have the potential to improve the accuracy and consistency of endoscopy readings. Iterative Scopes is initially applying these advances to impact polyp detection for colorectal cancer screenings and working to standardize disease severity characterization for inflammatory bowel disease. Longer term, the company plans to establish more meaningful endpoints for GI diseases, which may be better predictors of therapeutic response and disease outcomes. Spun out of MIT in 2017, the company is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Iterative Health develops technology that can benefit patients anywhere, regardless of socioeconomic or geographic barriers.
Board Director
2021
Overjet is the global leader in dental artificial intelligence, helping both payers and providers improve patient care. The company was founded by experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and has assembled the largest and most seasoned team of technologists and domain experts with deep AI, dental, and insurance experience.
Overjet is a software development company that offers an AI platform for dentistry with precision and educates patients.
Raised $130,550,000.00 from March Capital, General Catalyst, The E14 Fund, Crosslink Capital, American Dental Association, Harmonic Growth Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Insight Partners and SpringRock Ventures.
Board Director
2018
Quantum Metric's Digital Intelligence Analytics Platform gives cross-functional teams real-time, out-of-the-box insights to easily and proactively identify, prioritize and act, so you can maximize the business impact of your web and native apps. The platform's intelligent analysis enables modern enterprises to quickly deliver exceptional online experiences. Since 2016, Quantum Metric has grown its customer base to include a range of mid-market to Fortune 500 enterprises.
Quantum Metric is a continuous product design platform that helps organizations build better products faster.
Raised $251,000,000.00 from Uncorrelated Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst, Bossa Invest, Insight Partners and NextGen Venture Partners.
Board Director
2021
Swimm helps engineering teams better understand their code, through knowledge building and continuous, auto-synced documentation. With Swimm, Continuous Documentation becomes an integral part of the development lifecycle. The platform allows engineers to build documentation that includes "live" snippets from the codebase that auto-sync with changes. This incorporates the creation and maintenance of code documentation into the development workflow.
Education
Master's degree
1998 - 1999
Bachelor's degree
1995 - 1999
Investments
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