Insight hires Amir Malayery to lead secondaries strategy globally

Insight Partners has appointed Amir Malayery as Managing Director to spearhead the firm's initiative in venture and growth secondaries. The move marks a deliberate push by the software-focused investor to expand liquidity solutions for founders and early backers while leveraging its deep operational knowledge of technology companies.

Malayery arrives with a concentrated background in secondary transactions and a broader track record in technology investing. He spent the most recent chapter of his career at Industry Ventures, where he helped shape technology-focused secondary investments, and earlier worked on tech and internet deals at Summit Partners. Over his career he has overseen investments and secondary commitments totaling more than $1 billion.

The appointment enhances a strategy that builds on Insight’s decades-long software expertise. The firm emphasises an asset-centric approach to secondaries: prioritising companies it already knows through prior relationships, proprietary diligence and a long-term view of growth and exit paths. Insight highlights its scale in the market — including more than 875 companies backed and over 55 portfolio exits by IPO — and the firm’s sizeable footprint, counted as $90B in AUM as of mid‑2025.

Deven Parekh, a senior leader at Insight, framed the hire as part of a broader response to an evolving secondary market. "As the secondary opportunity set enlarges, applying Insight’s operational playbook to venture and growth secondaries can unlock tailored liquidity solutions," he said. Malayery’s specialist experience is expected to help scale the capability and widen the firm’s set of options for founders and investors.

The timing comes as the secondaries landscape matures: limited partners and founders increasingly seek flexible liquidity pathways outside traditional IPO or trade-sale timelines. Insight’s strategy will aim to combine its software sector intelligence and long-standing industry contacts with bespoke secondary structures — direct and indirect — to address that demand. The firm also signals it will rely on its internal operating resources to support portfolio companies through transitions when secondary transactions occur.

Beyond investing, Malayery brings operator experience: he founded and led an ecommerce startup that developed universal mobile checkout tools. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford. In his new role as Managing Director he said he intends to work closely with LPs, founders and management teams to design practical liquidity plans that preserve long‑term growth potential.