{"id":593,"date":"2007-01-25T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T11:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/25\/cognizant-founder-raises-225-mn-fund\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T11:08:14","slug":"cognizant-founder-raises-225-mn-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/25\/cognizant-founder-raises-225-mn-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant founder raises $225 mn fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kumar Mahadeva<\/strong>, <strong>founder <\/strong>of <strong>US <\/strong>based software services company <strong>Cognizant Technologies<\/strong>, has raised a<strong> $225-million fund <\/strong>to invest in Indian companies.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar has teamed up with <strong>Ramanan Raghavendran<\/strong>, who had earlier raised a fund called <strong>Connect Capital<\/strong>, to raise this fund under<strong> Kubera Partners<\/strong> on the <strong>London Stock Exchange<\/strong> (LSE). Mr Raghavendran is an experienced private equity fund manager and has worked with firms like Insight Venture Partners, General Atlantic, TH Lee Putnam Ventures and McKinsey in his past avatars.<\/p>\n<p>LSE Alternative Investment Market (<strong>AIM<\/strong>) is increasingly becoming favoured to raise funds <strong>for making investments in Indian sectors or companies<\/strong>. About 15 Indian and India-focused companies have raised funds on AIM in the past one year. <strong>They have raised over $4 billion from AIM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read More @\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/News\/News_By_Industry\/Infotech\/Software\/Cognizant_founder_raises_225_mn_fund\/articleshow\/1439092.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economic Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumar Mahadeva, founder of US based software services company Cognizant Technologies, has raised a $225-million fund to invest in Indian companies. Kumar has teamed up with Ramanan Raghavendran, who had earlier raised a fund called Connect Capital, to raise this fund under Kubera Partners on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Mr Raghavendran is an experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-media","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}