Alex Crisses believes in the mission of not-for-profit Minds Matter, a New York, New York-based charity for underprivileged high school students. This charitable organization’s vision is to transform the lives of accomplished high school students from low-income families. This is by way of expanding their desires/dreams and getting them ready for success in college.

In addition, Alex Crisses invested in Cvent, a company in the Software-Enabled Service sector. Cvent is the world’s largest meetings management technology corporation. They have web-based software for web surveys, e-mail marketing, event management, online event registration, and meeting site selection.

Alex Crisses also invested in LivingSocial, an organization in the Internet & New Media industry. LivingSocial is the social commerce leader powering LivingSocial Deals. This group buying program invites people and their friends to save as much as 90% every day at their preferred sporting events, establishments and other community attractions in major cities.

Alex Crisses invested in Acronis, a business operating in the Infrastructure Software field. Acronis offers user-friendly storage management solutions, which are technically advanced for mission-critical applications. Acronis provides data migration, privacy, boot management, partitioning, backup and restore, disaster recovery, as well as other storage management products.

Alex Crisses earned an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School. He graduated as a Baker Scholar out of this institute of higher learning. He previously graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Economics. He was the recipient of the school’s Highest Honor.

Focusing on expansion as well as late stage data-enabled, internet, and software companies, Alex Crisses invested in 6waves. 6waves is a top global publisher of gaming apps on the Facebook platform. Their objective is publishing the next generation of social games.

At Insight Venture Partners, Alex Crisses concentrates on internet investments. This includes a focus on investments in online gaming companies. A growth-oriented investor, Insight is one of the quickest growing venture capital and private equity firms.

Alex Crisses, a Managing Director at Insight, joined the organization in 2002. Previous to joining Insight, Mr. Crisses worked with Global Energy and Power Group of Credit Suisse First Boston as an investment banking Analyst.

A prior investment of Alex Crisses is Ticket Monster. Founded in 2010, Ticket Monster is Korea’s largest provider of daily deals. They currently offer a deal-a-day in local cities. Ticket Monster uses their platform and customer base as a strategic lead-generation tool for local businesses.

Alex Crisses, via Insight Venture Partners, specializes in infrastructure software. Insight, founded in 1995, collaborates with and supports experienced entrepreneurs and management. The Company is a financially flexible, entrepreneur-focused investor.