{"id":942599,"date":"2025-07-01T06:52:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942599"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:26:02","slug":"cognizants-former-ceos-investment-firm-recognize-raises-1-7-billion-in-second-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/01\/cognizants-former-ceos-investment-firm-recognize-raises-1-7-billion-in-second-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant\u2019s former CEO\u2019s investment firm Recognize raises $1.7 billion in second fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize Partners, a technology services-focused private equity firm co-founded by seasoned industry leaders including Francisco D\u2019Souza former chief of IT firm Cognizant, has raised over $1.7 billion (around 14,580 crore) in its second fund to invest in next-generation digital services. <\/p>\n<p>With Recognize II, the firm will continue to look at investing and picking up majority stake in companies with enterprise values between approximately $50 million and $500 million, when companies start needing growth capital. The cheque sizes of each investment would be similar to the previous fund with average ticket size of around $100 million or a little bigger, D\u2019Souza told ET in an interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize Partners, a technology services-focused private equity firm co-founded by seasoned industry leaders including Francisco D\u2019Souza former chief of IT firm Cognizant, has raised over $1.7 billion (around 14,580 crore) in its second fund to invest in next-generation digital services. With Recognize II, the firm will continue to look at investing and picking up majority stake in companies with enterprise values between approximately $50 million and $500 million, when companies start needing growth capital. The cheque sizes of each investment would be similar to the previous fund with average ticket size of around $100 million or a little bigger, D\u2019Souza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}