Deven Parekh

Deven Parekh focuses on new investment opportunities, which involve technology in this contemporary digital age. He invests in Internet, software and data services. These innovative businesses have a new approach to doing business on a global basis.

Deven Parekh’s expertise is analyzing such enterprises. He uses his diverse educational and career experiences, and his solid research abilities to help him make investment decisions that benefit Insight Venture Partners as well as the organizations they deem inventive.

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

Moreover, Deven Parekh serves on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Technical Advisory Board. The FCC regulates interstate and international communications by cable, satellite, wire, television, and radio in all fifty states, D.C., and United States territories.

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

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

Deven Parekh has an accomplished academics background. He has a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Wharton, established in 1881, is the world’s first collegiate business school.

Deven Parekh’s education is a firm foundation for his work with Insight. He’s part of the Wharton School’s 88,000 alumni spread across 145 countries around the world. Wharton has modern academic facilities in Philadelphia, PA as well as in San Francisco, California.

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

Deven Parekh works with Publicolor (www.publicolor.org). He is Chairman of the Board of this organization. Publicolor is a not-for-profit entity and their focus is helping students become productive members of the nation’s workforce.

Publicolor provides a program that helps students achieve academic success. This organization uses color, collaboration, design, and the painting process. Publicolor’s goal is to get students involved with their communities, schools, and education.

Those, including Deven Parekh, who commit their energy and time to Publicolor, facilitate the instructing of the process of commercial painting. Subsequently, this creates a community of students that works together.

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

The US Export-Import Bank enables small and large U.S. firms to convert export opportunities into actual sales. These sales assist in maintaining and creating jobs in the U.S.A and play a role in a more robust national economy.

The US Export-Import Bank provides working capital guarantees (pre-export financing); export credit insurance; and direct loans (buyer financing) and loan guarantees. On average, 85 % of the Bank’s transactions directly benefit small businesses of the United States.

In 2000, Deven Parekh joined Insight Venture Partners and he analyzes social media startups to locate potential opportunities for investment. He works with expansion and late-stage data-enabled, internet, and software businesses to help them in developing their businesses.

Deven Parekh focuses on the software and internet verticals and he targets cutting-edge organizations. He works to understand fully the markets they operate in to help them optimize revenue as well as profits.

He and the Insight Venture Partners team participate in diverse types of investing. These include pre-IPO rounds, take privates, M&A strategies, buyouts, recapitalizations, carve outs, and growth equity. Currently, Insight has a capital base of approximately $3 billion.

Deven Parekh works at Insight Venture Partners, based in New York City. He’s a venture capitalist and private equity expert who studies technology organizations to discover ideal investments.

Organizations Deven Parekh decides on for investment opportunities vary every year, according to his investigation of technology organizations. With Insight Venture Partners, his focus is the software and internet verticals.

At Publicolor, Deven Parekh is Chairman of the Board. This is a not-for-profit organization; they use the painting process, design, collaboration, and color to get students taking part in their communities, schools, and education.

Deven Parekh works with knowledgeable business managers and entrepreneurs. He concentrates on inventive organizations willing to increase their enterprises’ growth, and he comprehends fully the markets wherein they operate.