Deven Parekh is Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners, which is based in New York, New York. Insight Venture Partners is a major venture capital and private equity firm. He manages investments in e-commerce, consumer internet data, as well as application software companies. This year, Mr. Parekh debuted high on the Midas List (Forbes). He is a graduate of the Wharton School. He is on the Board at Fanatics, which is an online retailer for sports merchandise.
Deven Parekh had a 2009 investment in Twitter and investments in Chegg, Tumblr and Flipboard. Moreover, he assisted in navigating Tumblr to its sale to Yahoo a year ago. On top of that, he attained success with BuddyMedia, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2012 for $785 million. Additionally, in 2012, he directed a $165 million equity investment in Drilling Info. They are an Austin, Texas-headquartered data intelligence provider for the gas and oil industry.