Cognizant

Total investments

7

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.23

Lead investments

2

Exits

1

Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyE-LearningRecruitingEdTechTrainingEducationCyber SecurityOpen Source

Summary

Cognizant appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1994. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Teaneck. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Cognizant, startups are often financed by TDF Ventures, Inner Loop Capital, Aspada. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trident Capital, The Flying Object, Ron Gula. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trident Capital, Menlo Ventures, Patni Wealth Advisors.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2008. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Cognizant works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cybrary, Civic Hall, Measure. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are EdTech, Internet.

The fund was created by Francisco D'Souza, Kumar Mahadeva, Lakshmi Narayanan.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Analytics (2)
  • Software (2)
  • Information Technology (1)
  • Training (1)
  • E-Learning (1)
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Investments by region
  • United States (6)
  • Denmark (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
19

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Rx.Health 05 Sep 2018 Health Care, Hospital, Health Insurance, Life Science Seed 2M United States, New York, New York
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