Recognize Partners
VC Fund
New York, United States
Recognize Partners is a VC fund in New York focused on Information Technology and Software. Recognize builds technology companies by partnering with talented management teams and providing industry insight, operational expertise and strategic capital to spur innovation.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
- Fund size:
- $1.7B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Recognize Partners invests in
Stages Recognize Partners invests in
Countries Recognize Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 5 (31%)
- Software 3 (19%)
- Consulting 3 (19%)
- Data Integration 2 (13%)
- Business Intelligence 2 (13%)
Stage
- Private Equity 4 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (19%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 8 (50%)
- India 1 (6%)
- Ukraine 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Phillips
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
|
Managing Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
David H. Wasserman
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
|
Managing Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Francisco D'Souza
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
|
Managing Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Rajeev Mehta
Partner & Co-Founder
|
Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
|
Shawn Pride
Partner & Chief Operating Officer
|
Partner & Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security Risk Advisors delivers comprehensive cybersecurity advice, 24x7 operations and SaaS to prominent enterprises in the Financial Services, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Technology and Retail industries. | Private Equity / Oct 13, 2025 | ||
| SDG provides technology, consulting and risk management solutions to strengthen enterprise businesses while managing IT risk.A combination of technology, thought leadership and a relentless passion for customer success defines SDG’s approach to partnering with enterprise brands. But with the added ingredient of specifically focusing onmitigating IT risk with every client engagement. Managing risk is a growing challenge as IT becomes so pervasive in today’s modern enterprise, which SDG tackles head on. | Private Equity / Dec 09, 2024 | ||
| Thunder is a management consulting company that unlocks business value with intelligent frameworks and solutions. The company's mission is to help the world’s best brands solve complex problems with Salesforce. | $16M / Series A / Aug 08, 2023 | ||
| MediaMint is a digital media services firm that works with Publishers, Ad Networks and Agencies to build global operational scale in display, video and mobile advertising | Private Equity / Jul 26, 2023 | ||
| 2X is a B2B-focused Marketing as a Service (MaaS) firm. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 29, 2023 | ||
| Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking valueand fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy. We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world. For more information, visit www.blend360.com | $100M / Private Equity / Aug 09, 2022 | ||
| Torc, a talent marketplace bringing a productive freelance developers to the enterprise through an AI, security, and culture-first platform | $5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| SpringML's predictive analytic applications use machine learning models to learn from our client's CRM data, providing actionable insights to sales and marketing teams. The applications automate manual, error-prone processes like sales forecasting and opportunity management. SpringML also provides consulting services from analyticsstrategy to Salesforce Wave implementation, our experts help our client's experts get the data and insights they need to perform better and win. Our team and methodology are tuned for speed, giving you fast results you can trust. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 14, 2021 | ||
| Ciklum is a Danish innovative IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine and Belarus.Ciklum unique business model merges the human element with IT to not only help companies to grow, but provide ongoing resources that sustain growth with the flexibility to scale up or down as marketsshift. Ciklum clients can gain control over their IT processes and systems and get more value from the resources they already have. We surround each client team, both client and IT, with knowledge sharing activities to foster a profitable and productive work environment during their entire outsourcing experience, including social events, strong infrastructure, financial and administrative support, Q & A and consulting services. Ciklum also provides project-based services and peak resources on a short-term basis to accomplish very specific tasks efficiently and with superior quality. Established in 2002, Ciklum employs more than 1,700 IT specialists with more than 150 global clients’ own software development teams. Ciklum has six development offices in Ukraine, one in Belarus, and two in Pakistan, as well as representative offices in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. Ciklum is a winner of Red Herring 100 Europe 2009 (an award given to the Top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA region each year), recognized as CeBIT 2010 Top 20 innovative company delivering services/products for small and medium sized companies, and named the 2010 and 2011 Top 100 global services provider. Ciklum is rated Best Larger IT Employer 2010 & 2011 in Ukraine by DOU, the Ukrainian Community of Software Developers. Ciklum is a member of the Hi-Tech Initiative, the IT Ukraine Association and the European Business Association (EBA). | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 29, 2020 | ||
| AST Corporation provides consulting services for Oracle Applications implementations and upgrades. Its services encompass various aspects of Oracle e-business applications, including strategy and assessment, project management, change management, best practices, implementation, upgrade/migration, training, support, database administration,integration, data conversion, and troubleshooting/performance tuning. The company serves various organizations in manufacturing, transportation, insurance, retailing, telecommunications, and the public sector. AST Corporation was formerly known as Applications Software Services Corporation. | |||
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Co-Investors
Stellus Capital Management
3 deals together
Asymmetric Capital Partners
1 deal together
Everstone
1 deal together
Salesforce Ventures
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Recognize Partners invest in?
Recognize Partners invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Consulting startups, most often at Private Equity and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Recognize Partners?
The team at Recognize Partners includes Charles Phillips (Managing Partner & Co-Founder), David H. Wasserman (Managing Partner & Co-Founder) and Francisco D'Souza (Managing Partner & Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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