Insight Venture Partners, an American venture capital and private equity firm, agreed to invest $145m in commercetools, a provider of in next-generation commerce software. “Rather than relying on increasingly outmoded software, brands, manufacturers and distributors are choosing our cloud-native and modern software platform to transform their digital commerce for today’s consumers. To answer this demand, we have built a strong and successful international business and this new investment will enable us to intensify the pace of our growth into the North American and Asia-Pacific markets, as well as leverage our success in Europe. The scale of this funding, combined with our tremendous strengths in technology and the quality of the team we are building, significantly furthers our ambition to become the number one commerce platform globally,” Dirk Hoerig, CEO and co-founder, commercetools.