The next stack: Generative AI from an investor perspective | Insight Partners
Talks about Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI infrastructure
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Ganesh Bell
Managing Director at Insight Partners
San Mateo, California
Overview
Ganesh Bell is the Managing Director at Insight Partners, known for being one of the Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business. With a strong background in venture capital and investments, he has successfully invested in companies like Prisma Photonics, WorkSpan, and Instabug.
Bell's career highlights include his role as Managing Director at Insight Partners and being recognized as one of the Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business, showcasing his expertise in venture capital, investments, and strategic leadership.
Work Experience
Managing Director
2021 - Current
Investor focused on helping entrepreneurs building modern enterprise, data and AI busineses.
Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup companies.
Board Member
2022
WorkSpan is the #1 co-selling platform. Quantify, track, and manage joint solutions, marketing, sales, and incentives to maximize the potential of every partnership.
WorkSpan is the #1 ecosystem management network that empowers companies to turbocharge and scale their co-sell revenue growth.
Raised $66,000,000.00 from Insight Partners, Mayfield Fund, Milliways Ventures and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Board Member
2022
Instabug is the leading mobile monitoring, crash, and bug-reporting solution for mobile teams. Instabug empowers mobile teams of all sizes with a unified mobile observability platform that provides them with both overall performance insights and granular information on the issues experienced by their users.
Board Member
2022
Sanas is a software development company that assists multilingual speakers to deliver clear communication through accent correction.
Raised $52,219,678.00 from General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, Google Ventures, DN Capital, Insight Partners, Alorica, Human Capital, Gokul Rajaram, Carya Venture Partners and Assurant Ventures.
Board Member
2022
Rattle develops Salesforce integration technology allowing systems and people to interact with each other natively.
Raised $28,800,000.00 from Insight Partners, Lightspeed India Partners, Google Ventures and Peak XV Partners.
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2022
Promethium is the pioneer of the AI-Powered Data Fabric that aims to deliver seamless self-service to generate data products in real time.
Raised $34,500,000.00 from Insight Partners, .406 Ventures and Zetta Venture Partners.
Board Member
2021
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Quali provides the leading platform for Infrastructure Automation at Scale. Global 2000 enterprises and innovators everywhere rely on Quali’s award-winning CloudShell platform to create self-service, on-demand automation solutions that increase engineering productivity, cut cloud costs, and optimize infrastructure utilization. For more information, please visit https://www.quali.com and follow Quali on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Quali provides cloud platform solutions that increase productivity, cut costs, and optimize infrastructure utilization.
Raised $102,851,995.00 from Phoenix Financial, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), Kreos Capital, Hamilton Lane and Greenfield Partners.
Board Member, Hitachi Digital Group
2021 - 2023
First independent board member of Hitachi Global Digital Holdings - the parent of multi $B businesses of Hitachi Vantara, GlobalLogic, and central hub of all digital portfolio activities across Hitachi businesses. Hitachi Vantara is a leader in enterprise technologies spanning data management, analytics, IoT, video intelligence, storage, hyper-converged infrastructure, cloud modernization & acceleration, and IT operations. Headquartered in silicon valley, Hitachi Vantara is a global business with 10000+ employees. GlobalLogic, is the leader in digital product engineering, helping leading companies design and build innovative products, platforms, and digital experiences for the modern world. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, GlobalLogic operates design studios and engineering centers worldwide, extending deep expertise to customers in the automotive, communications, financial services, healthcare & life sciences, media and entertainment, manufacturing, semiconductor, and technology industries. GlobalLogic is a team 21000+ designers, developers, data engineers, and builders across 14 countries.
Retained Exec-in-Residence / Strategic Advisor Hitachi Digital Group of Companies
2020 - 2021
As a strategic advisor and exec-in-residence, I work closely with business CEOs and the Chairman of HGDH on group innovation, growth, and portfolio transformation. Defined group portfolio vision, M&A strategy, led due diligence, board/leadership support resulting in successful acquisitions, including GlobalLogic for $9.6B. Retained to work on strategic initiatives across the holding company and represent Hitachi in M&As, JVs, etc.
Hitachi America headquartered in Santa Clara, California, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.
Investor
2020 - 2022
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Stomp Sessions is an online platform that offers action sports, video tutorials, athletes and digital coaching for personal online lessons.