Lonne Jaffe
Managing Director at Insight Partners
Lonne Jaffe
Managing Director at Insight Partners
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2017 - Current
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of June 30, 2023, the firm had over $80B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 800 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work with visionary executives, providing them with tailored, hands-on software expertise along their growth journey.
Board Director
2021
Anjuna makes the public cloud secure for business. Software from Anjuna Security effortlessly enables enterprises to safely run even their most sensitive workloads in the public cloud. Unlike complex perimeter security solutions easily breached by insiders and malicious code, Anjuna leverages the strongest hardware-based secure computing technologies available to make the public cloud the safest computing resource available anywhere.
Board Director
2019
Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua’s Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world’s largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies.
Board Observer
2021
Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences. Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production by over 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs.
Board Director
2018
CentralReach is the leading cloud-delivered electronic health record, clinical analytics, and practice management software suite for clinicians and educators focused on applied behavioral analysis, occupational therapy, and speech therapy
Board Director
2019
Headquartered in the U.K. and U.S. and with offices in Cambridge, London and Atlanta, Featurespace is the world-leader in fraud prevention and creator of the ARIC platform, real-time machine learning software that risk scores transactions and other events in more than 180 countries. Featurespace was created out of Cambridge University’s Engineering Department, co-founded by world-renowned experts in applied statistics, the late Professor Bill Fitzgerald and Dave Excell, Featurespace CTO. The ARIC platform combines adaptive behavioral analytics and anomaly detection to automatically identify risk and catch new attacks as they happen. The increased accuracy of understanding behavior strikes the balance between improving fraud detection and operational efficiencies, while also reducing the number of genuine transactions that would be incorrectly declined due to traditional rules by as much as 70 percent.
Board Director
2019
Glia creates digital-first moments that simplify and transform communications between financial institutions and their customers using Messaging, Video, Voice, CoBrowsing, and Artificial Intelligence. Fortune 500 companies that have high-consideration sales and support experiences need to deliver choice, continuity, and speed to their customers. Glia transcends the channel discussion to focus on what matters – customers. Glia is backed by leading venture capital investors including Insight Venture Partners, Tola Capital, Wildcat Capital Management, and Grassy Creek, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. Glia is headquartered in New York City and has additional offices in Tartu and Tallinn, Estonia
Board Director
2021
Incredibuild turbocharges development with Virtualized Distributed Processing™ technology that turns every host into a supercomputer with hundreds of cores. Incredibuild seamlessly distributes processes across idle processors in the network on-prem and dynamically allocates cloud capacity based on availability and cost. Using the same code, processes, and tools, developers and managers accelerate product development with 8x faster builds, 80% shorter release cycles, and 4x the number of iterations, consistently releasing better products to market radically faster.
Board Director
2021
Iterative Scopes is a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence-based precision medicine for gastroenterology with the aim of helping to optimize clinical trials investigating treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The technology is also designed to potentially enhance colorectal cancer screenings. Its powerful, proprietary artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies have the potential to improve the accuracy and consistency of endoscopy readings. Iterative Scopes is initially applying these advances to impact polyp detection for colorectal cancer screenings and working to standardize disease severity characterization for inflammatory bowel disease. Longer term, the company plans to establish more meaningful endpoints for GI diseases, which may be better predictors of therapeutic response and disease outcomes. Spun out of MIT in 2017, the company is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Board Director
2019
Keyfactor is a leading provider of secure digital identity management software that allows organizations to confirm authenticity, master digital identity, and ensure the right things are interacting in secure ways in a more highly connected world. Examples of customers include an enterprise managing millions of devices and applications and a manufacturer aiming to ensure its connected products will function safely. Its clients are the most innovative brands in the industries where trust and reliability matter most.
Education
Master's degree
1998 - 1999
Bachelor's degree
1995 - 1999
Investments
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