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Whit Bouck
Managing Director at Insight Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Whit Bouck is the Managing Director at Insight Partners, with a background as an executive at notable companies like Dropbox and Box. He is known for his expertise in team leadership and strategic planning, as well as for his investments in startups like BlueOcean and Trengo.
Bouck's career highlights include serving in executive roles at leading tech companies and leveraging his experience to advise and invest in promising startups, contributing to their growth and success.
Work Experience
Board Partner and GTM Advisor
2025 - Current
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups.
Board Observer
2025
Crossbeam is the first and largest Ecosystem-Led Growth platform.
Raised $116,850,000.00 from Blitzscaling Ventures, Tapestry VC, Andreessen Horowitz, HubSpot Ventures, Redpoint, Slack Fund, Okta Ventures, GTMfund, Salesforce Ventures and FirstMark.
Board Observer
2025
Fountain is a talent platform that develops to make workforce management and hiring easier.
Raised $218,870,000.00 from Origin Ventures, B Capital, Uncork Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, Commerce Ventures, DCM Ventures, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, SemperVirens Venture Capital, B Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Board Member
2023
Writer is an AI writing platform for enterprises to unblock the creation of great content based on your brand voice, style guide and voice. Writer is enterprise-grade with all of the security and data privacy features you'll need for organization-wide rollouts. Writer is deployed widely at leading companies like UnitedHealthcare, Accenture, Intuit, Twitter, UiPath, HubSpot, Spotify, and Deloitte.
Writer is a software firm that develops a full-stack generative AI platform delivering transformative ROI for enterprises.
Raised $326,000,000.00 from Radical Ventures, PremjiInvest, Insight Partners, Gradient, Workday Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, B Capital, Accenture, Citi Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
Advisor
2022
Trestle provides the identity data APIs you need to create, develop, and reinforce customer relationships.
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Alex Algard.
Advisor
2022
Managing Director
2022
Operating Partner to help our portfolio companies become the best they can possibly be and introduce amazing founders to Insight.
Advisor
2021 - 2022
Part-time advisor to portfolio companies, helping introduce awesome founders to Insight, and sitting on a couple of the portfolio boards.
Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup companies.
Board Observer
2022
Mutiny helps B2B companies generate pipeline and revenue from their target accounts through AI-powered personalized web experiences.
Raised $71,620,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, Uncork Capital, Cowboy Ventures and Tiger Global Management.
Board Observer
2021
Board Member
2021
Education
BA
1984 - 1988
Investments
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