Deven Parekh

Deven Parekh consistently looks for new investing opportunities. He researches thoroughly and diligently regarding Internet businesses. Via Insight Venture Partners, he utilizes his knowledge acquired from his business experience and education to make sound decisions.

He, via Insight, is a financially flexible, entrepreneur-focused, growth-oriented investment professional. The Insight Onsite team works with portfolio company executives. They work with client management teams, supplementing their clients’ existing resources.

Deven Parekh understands the evolving business paradigm globally. He further understands that enterprises must embrace the power of new technology as is applicable to the Worldwide Web to advance the goals of their respective businesses. He looks to invest in businesses that are unique, for example those that are unique in terms of innovative communications software.

Deven Parekh works with Publicolor (www.publicolor.org). He’s Chairman of the Board of this organization. Publicolor is a non-profit entity focusing on helping students become productive members of the U.S.’s labor force.

Publicolor has a program that can help students accomplish academic success. They use design, collaboration, color, and the process of painting. Publicolor’s aim is to get students involved with their communities, schools, and education.

Those, including Deven Parekh, who dedicate their energy and time to Publicolor, assist in the instructing of the process of commercial painting. As a result, this creates a community of students who work together.

Deven Parekh specializes in new investment opportunities, which involve technology in this modern-day digital age. He invests in software, Internet as well as data services. These innovative businesses take a new approach to conducting business on a worldwide basis.

Deven Parekh’s expertise is analyzing such enterprises. He uses his varied career and educational experiences, and his solid research abilities to help him make investment decisions that benefit Insight Venture Partners and the businesses they consider cutting-edge.

These days, businesses must be forward thinking and at the forefront of new technology. Deven Parekh, through investing in these types of organizations, helps them in bringing their offerings to the marketplace where other enterprises can have access to their innovations.

Deven Parekh serves varied organizations with his experience and knowledge. One example is his work for the US Export-Import Bank. He serves on this organization’s Advisory Board. The Export-Import Bank of the United States is the official export credit agency of America.

This Bank enables small and large U.S. firms to convert export opportunities into actual sales. These sales help to maintain and create jobs in the country and play a role in a more robust U.S. economy.

The US Export-Import Bank provides working capital guarantees (pre-export financing); export credit insurance; and loan guarantees and direct loans (buyer financing). On average, 85 percent of their transactions directly benefit small enterprises of the U.S.

In addition, Deven Parekh serves on the Technical Advisory Board of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.

The Technical Advisory Council of the FCC includes a diverse range of leading technical experts. They help to provide the technical expertise the FCC requires to determine vital areas of innovation and develop informed technology policies supporting the U.S.’s competitiveness in the world economy.

The Technical Advisory Council is helping the FCC to continue to facilitate the putting forth of recommendations and ideas in the National Broadband Plan. This includes how broadband communications can be part of the solution for the delivery and cost containment of health care, for environmental and energy conservation, for education innovation, and in the creation of jobs.

Deven Parekh has an accomplished academic background. From the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he has a Bachelor of Science in Economics. Wharton, established in 1881, is considered the world’s first collegiate business school.

Deven Parekh’s education is a solid foundation for his work with Insight. He is part of the Wharton School’s 88,000 alumni in 145 countries around the globe. Wharton has state-of-the-art academic facilities in Philadelphia as well as in San Francisco, CA.

Deven Parekh attained his Bachelor of Science in Economics from one of the Wharton diverse degree programs. These programs include 9 doctoral programs, 18 MBA majors, and 20-plus undergraduate concentrations.

As a venture capitalist, Deven Parekh is investing in Buddy Media. This Company, a social media management software enterprise, has seen their revenue more than double since the end of 2010. They won the TechCrunch “Crunchie” Award for Best Enterprise application in January of 2011.

Buddy Media’s clients include Virgin Mobile USA, Hearst Corporation, ESPN, Hanes, and the Ford Motor Company. The Company established their European Headquarters in London in July 2011.

Deven Parekh is a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners, a company based in New York, New York. Insight Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm. In 1995, Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock founded Insight Venture Partners.

Deven Parekh of Insight Venture Partners has added Buddy Media to his portfolio of cutting-edge companies. Buddy Media is valued at $500 million based on the valuation that sources say the company earned in their newest $54 million round of financing.

Buddy Media is the social media management software that eight of the world’s top ten global advertisers have chosen. Along with Insight Venture Partners, Bay Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, and GGV Capital participated in Buddy Media’s recent round of financing.

Deven Parekh’s investment portfolio includes diverse companies, and those he decides on for investment opportunities changes yearly. He bases his choices on his in-depth research of technology businesses, which helps to mitigate risk.

Deven Parekh constantly searches for new opportunities to invest. He researches thoroughly and diligently concerning Internet businesses. Through Insight Venture Partners, he utilizes his expertise gained from his education and business experience to make quality decisions.

He, through Insight, is a financially flexible, entrepreneur-focused, growth-oriented investment professional. The Insight Onsite team works in concert with portfolio company executives. They work with client management teams, supplementing their clients’ existing resources.

Deven Parekh understands the changing business paradigm throughout the world. He further understands that organizations must embrace the power of new technology as pertains to the Internet to advance the plans of their respective organizations. He looks to invest in businesses that are unique, for instance those that are unique in terms of innovative communications software.

Deven Parekh will engage in duties as a Board Observer With Buddy Media. Buddy Media helps advertisers manage their presence on the Facebook online community. The Company obtained $54 million in venture capital recently.

Proceeds from the transaction will more than double sales, support staff, and product over the next year for Buddy Media. Additionally, the proceeds will fund additional worldwide offices and acquisitions.

The Company’s services are for Facebook, however, not exclusively – advertisers may also use Buddy Media for Twitter, and others as they consider fit. In 2011, Buddy Media has added nearly 200 new customers. This consists of a number of the world’s most well-known worldwide retailers, brands, and media enterprises.