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Emmet B. Keeffe III is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Irise. In the early 1990's Emmet set two goals - to start a software company that would achieve $1 billion in revenue and to start a Formula One team. In the late 1990's, Emmet and Maurice Martin co-founded iRise with a vision to transform how business and IT stakeholders would communicate about requirements for custom and packaged business software. In 2000, Emmet and Maurice invented the market for "Software Visualization" and have built iRise into the world's leading provider of enterprise visualization for business software. Over the last 20 years Emmet has applied his philosophy of "the network is the business" to become one of the most well-connected CEOs in the software industry. As CEO & Co-Founder of iRise, Emmet has leveraged his network to close over $60 million in investment funding and drives leadership of sales, marketing and business development at iRise. Prior to co-founding iRise, he built a top-
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- • 100 investors at Insight Partners are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the Operating Partner, Founder Insight Ignite role in VCSift. Emmet Keeffe is one of them.
- • 8,972 investors are based in London, England, United Kingdom.
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