Recognize Partners Makes Strategic Investment in Ciklum Group Limited

Recognize Invests in SDG Corporation

December 9, 2024

Cybersecurity

Recognize, a private equity firm focused on digital services, has made a strategic growth investment in SDG Corporation, a Norwalk, Connecticut-based provider of advisory, implementation, and managed cybersecurity services. SDG (approximately 400 employees) will continue to be led by founder and CEO Ajay Gupta, and Recognize will support the company’s buildout and accelerated growth in identity and access management (IAM), threat, and risk services.

Ciklum Acquires Infogen

February 7, 2024

IT Services

Ciklum, a global experience engineering firm headquartered in London, announced its acquisition of Infogen, a digital engineering services company headquartered in the United States. The deal is intended to expand Ciklum’s presence in North America and strengthen its global delivery footprint, leveraging Infogen’s edge-based R&D capabilities and Microsoft expertise.

Recognize Partners (with Stellus financing) Makes Strategic Growth Investment in 2X

March 29, 2023

Marketing & Advertising

Recognize Partners made a strategic growth equity investment in 2X, the B2B marketing-as-a-service (MaaS) pioneer, marking 2X's first institutional financing. Stellus Capital Management provided unitranche debt and an equity co-investment to support the transaction; 2X's management team will remain in place to scale the firm's MarTech, delivery, and global capabilities.

Recognize Makes Strategic Investment in SpringML

October 14, 2021

Data & Analytics

Recognize, a technology services investment platform, made a strategic growth investment in machine learning and advanced data analytics firm SpringML. SpringML's founders will remain in leadership, Raj Mehta of Recognize joins SpringML's board as Chairman, and the partnership is intended to help SpringML scale organically and inorganically while expanding its Google Cloud and Salesforce-based analytics offerings.

Ciklum Acquires CN Group to Expand European Presence

August 31, 2021

IT Services

Ciklum, a global digital engineering company, has acquired Prague-headquartered CN Group to accelerate growth across the DACH and Scandinavian markets and expand its CEE delivery footprint. The deal adds CN Group's ~360 digital technology specialists to Ciklum's more than 3,500-strong engineering organization; CN Group had previously been supported by private equity partner Genesis Capital.

Luminate Capital Partners Makes Strategic Growth Investment in Thought Industries

September 5, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

Luminate Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, made a strategic growth investment in Thought Industries to support the SaaS company's continued product development and market expansion. The investment will help Thought Industries enhance its customer learning platform and scale customer support and go-to-market activities; financial terms were not disclosed.