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Drew H.

Managing Director at Insight Partners

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated July 2026💼 25 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Observer
Jun 2024
The data, models, and platform to fine-tune edge-optimized SLMs.
Board Observer
May 2023
Sendbird is on a mission to build deeper connections in a digital world. The company’s communications API platform powers over 7 Billion messages worldwide every month. Leading apps like Hinge, Paytm, and Rakuten, among 4,000 others, improve customer retention and satisfaction by building in-app chat, notifications, voice, video, and livestreams with Sendbird. Headquartered in California, Sendbird is venture-backed by ICONIQ Growth, STEADFAST Capital Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Meritech Capital, Emergence Capital, Shasta Ventures, August Capital, Funders Club, World Innovation Lab, and Y Combinator.
Board Member
Sep 2022
Today’s enterprises have cyber vulnerabilities caused by thousands of unmanaged and IoT devices that keep their employees and facilities secure, patients alive, office temperatures just right, and perform dozens of other critical functions to ensure the business runs smoothly. If the security of those devices is compromised, the business itself is compromised. Viakoo Action Platform with automated firmware patching, certificate management, password enforcement, and service assurance remediates device vulnerabilities and repatriates devices to full network citizenship. Our customers span across all verticals, including F1000 corporate data centers, education, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Beautiful.ai is a presentation software that makes it easy to turn your ideas into beautiful visual stories. Our design-AI has been taught the rules of good design and applies them in real-time as you add or edit content; making it easier to build stunning visual presentations that look professionally designed 10x faster.
Board Observer
Feb 2021
iSpot.tv helps advertisers measure the brand and business impact of TV and streaming advertising, from concept to airing to conversion. Fast, accurate and actionable measurement and attribution solutions enable advertisers to assess creative effectiveness, enhance media plans and attribute advertising results for cross-platform campaigns, all while benchmarking against competitors and historical norms. Unlike legacy and ad hoc solutions, iSpot is purpose-built to measure the performance of every ad on television with digital-like precision and granularity in real time. With always-on performance insights unified across linear and streaming TV, advertisers can take quick and confident action to consistently drive business results. More at: https://www.ispot.tv
Board Observer
Apr 2020
Simplify contingent labor management with Workday VNDLY. Get work done across your total workforce by connecting the Workday VNDLY vendor management system (VMS) with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) to enable an agile, unified approach.
Board Observer
Mar 2020
Revolutionary conversational AI, with out-of-the-box solutions that power exceptional customer experiences for banks and credit unions.
Board Member
Dec 2019
FPWR is composed of thousands of parents, family members, researchers, and others who are interested in addressing the many issues related to PWS, including childhood obesity, developmental delays, psychiatric disorders, and autism spectrum disorders. The mission of FPWR is to eliminate the challenges of Prader-Willi syndrome through the advancement of research and therapeutic development. FPWR supports cutting edge research studies around the world to advance the understanding of PWS, and collaborates with research institutions, pharmaceutical companies and the FDA to advance new treatments that will help those with PWS. To date, FPWR has funded over $10 million in PWS research. For more information please visit https://www.fpwr.org/.
Board Member
Dec 2018
CloudPassage is the recognized leader in automated cloud security and compliance for dynamic application deployment environments like AWS and Azure. A true pioneer, the company's groundbreaking innovations received the first-ever patents granted in the cloud security domain. Today, CloudPassage safeguards cloud infrastructure for the world's best-recognized brands in finance, e-commerce, gaming, B2B SaaS, and digital media with Halo, its flagship solution. Halo is an award-winning cloud security platform that automates continuous visibility for millions of serverless, server-based, and containerized assets across hundreds of public and hybrid cloud environments. Halo is software-as-a-service, deploying in minutes and scaling effortlessly. Halo integrates with configuration management and CICD tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Jenkins to align security functions with automated DevOps processes. CloudPassage is a proven solution for delivering automated security and compliance visibility, critical to protecting data and applications migrating to public IaaS environments. Visit www.cloudpassage.com to learn how Halo can enable faster, more effective cloud infrastructure security for your enterprise.
Board Member
Jun 2017
In today’s on-demand world, the needs of the market can turn on a dime. Aria gives enterprise companies speed and agility to change with it. Aria’s cloud-based monetization platform removes billing bottlenecks to allow companies to quickly launch and evolve their offerings. Only Aria provides speed and agility at scale, delivers actionable customer insights, and empowers business users with direct control to better monetize their offerings. Innovative companies like Adobe, Audi, Experian, and Philips depend on Aria to accelerate their time to revenue, maximize customer value, and grow their business. Aria is award-winning and top ranked by leading research firms. Headquartered in downtown San Francisco, CA, Aria has field offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit ariasystems.com.
Board Member
Jun 2017
Splice Machine helps businesses see around corners by making it fast and easy to deploy AI applications. Our machine learning solutions predict outcomes in real time, enabling better decisions in the moment for industrial, financial, and healthcare companies. Splice Machine's cutting-edge MLOps capabilities, including the only single-engine Feature Store, powers machine learning at scale. Companies can easily grow from a few models to thousands of models in production to proactively improve business impact.
Board Member
Feb 2017
NewsCred, the world’s leading enterprise content marketing company, is on a mission to create software that transforms how marketing teams work. NewsCred is a two-time Gartner-leader and a regular Great Place to Work. Every day, across our Colorado, New York, London, and Dhaka offices, 200+ brilliant NewsCred employees commit their passion, time, and energy to shaping the future of an industry. Our bread and butter is enterprise content marketing, and we are the best in the world at it, with exceptional retention rates over our 10+ year history. Our teams combine strategic expertise, award-winning licensed and original content, and comprehensive-but-intuitive software to help the world’s biggest multinational brands publish content that people actually want in this world filled with ad noise. But we are not resting on our success. We believe that modern marketing organizations will have their own operating system, just as Engineering has Jira and Sales has Salesforce. This Marketing OS will centralize where campaigns get planned and marketing teams work together. There are many big companies competing to be the winner, but we think we have the lead because of our expertise in content and the robustness of our software.
Investor
Jun 2016
Feel good, crispy chicken. Super Premium Fast Food. We’ve reimagined fast food to meet the needs of a new America. We’ve kept the good parts, and fixed the bad ingredients, tastes and experiences. We’ve created a world where eating conveniently and healthily are not at odds, and where affordability never has to be associated with sacrifice. At Starbird, fast food is positive and delicious, once again.
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Board Member
Apr 2016
Damballa is a cyber security company specializing in network monitoring for advanced threats. We were founded by data scientists in 2006 who had the foresight to know signature and reputation-based security tools would eventually be outsmarted by attackers. They were right. Today Damballa monitors nearly 15% of the world's Internet activity and protects more than 1/2 billion devices. We provide three solutions: *Failsafe: Failsafe is a network sensor that detects malicious communications between compromised devices and criminal operators. All evidence is automatically analyzed and threats are ranked based on severity. *Network Security Checkup: A 30-day service that analyzes the state of your network security from the inside out. An assessment report provides all details and recommendations to improve your security posture. *Service Provider Monitoring: Damballa works with the largest ISPs and mobile operators in the world. Our product identifies infected devices so providers can notify their customers or offer remediation.
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2025
Operating Partner
Feb 2025
Saints is a leading direct secondary firm that acquires illiquid assets from banks, corporations, hedge funds, individuals and private equity firms. Saints provides a cash exit for these existing investors. In addition to transacting with a variety of sellers, Saints acquires investments stakes across investments stages, including buyout, growth equity and venture assets. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Francisco, Saints manages investments in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
2024
Board Observer
Jun 2024
The data, models, and platform to fine-tune edge-optimized SLMs.
2023
Board Observer
May 2023
Sendbird is on a mission to build deeper connections in a digital world. The company’s communications API platform powers over 7 Billion messages worldwide every month. Leading apps like Hinge, Paytm, and Rakuten, among 4,000 others, improve customer retention and satisfaction by building in-app chat, notifications, voice, video, and livestreams with Sendbird. Headquartered in California, Sendbird is venture-backed by ICONIQ Growth, STEADFAST Capital Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Meritech Capital, Emergence Capital, Shasta Ventures, August Capital, Funders Club, World Innovation Lab, and Y Combinator.
2022
Board Member
Oct 2022
Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment. Lucidworks Connected Experience Cloud (CXC) makes it easy for customers to capture user signals and create personalized search, browse, and discovery experiences. The world’s largest brands, including Lenovo, Red Hat, Reddit and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks’ suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that delight customers and empower employees.
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