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Cognizant

Founders Francisco D'Souza Kumar Mahadeva Lakshmi Narayanan

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.23
Lead investments 2
Exits 1
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Analytics
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Training
  • E-Learning
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rx.Health

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Life Science
$2M05 Sep 2018 New York, New York, United States

Cybrary

Cyber Security
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Recruiting
Training
$3M12 Sep 2017 Maryland, United States

Measure UAS

Analytics
Drones
Geospatial
Mapping Services
Software
$22M17 Jan 2017 District of Columbia, United States

Questra

Internet
Manufacturing
Software
$10M07 Jul 2000 Redwood City, California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 0.23
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 2
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rx.Health

Health Care
Health Insurance
Hospital
Life Science
$2M05 Sep 2018 New York, New York, United States

Cybrary

Cyber Security
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Recruiting
Training
$3M12 Sep 2017 Maryland, United States

Measure UAS

Analytics
Drones
Geospatial
Mapping Services
Software
$22M17 Jan 2017 District of Columbia, United States

Questra

Internet
Manufacturing
Software
$10M07 Jul 2000 Redwood City, California, United States
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