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Infosys

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Overview

Infosys is a global IT services provider that provides application development, product co-development, system implementation, and system engineering services. Infosys helps enterprises through strategic consulting, operational leadership, and the co-creation of breakthrough solutions, including mobility, sustainability, big data, and cloud computing. The company provides managed services, cloud infrastructure services, business process outsourcing as a service, and IT services.

Total investments
10
Lead investments
5
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
10

Sector focus

  • Consulting
  • Information Services
  • Information Technology
  • IT Management
  • Software
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Investment portfolio

  • 4baseCare

    Led · Series B · Jun 2026

    Founded in 2018 and based in Bengaluru, 4baseCare develops genomics-driven, AI-enabled clinical intelligence for precision oncology through its platform OncoTwin. The company combines genomic testing with AI-powered clinical context to improve personalized cancer treatment and to address underrepresentation of non‑Caucasian populations in genomic datasets. 4baseCare is expanding a hospital-linked genomics laboratory network across India, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Central Asia. Financially, it has completed a Series A of Rs 50 crore led by Yali Capital with participation from Infosys, and an extended Series B totaling Rs 128 crore after the recent Rs 38-crore infusion led by GrowX Ventures. The fresh capital is earmarked for geographic expansion and scaling its OncoTwin platform.

  • GalaxEye

    Participated · Series A · Nov 2024

    GalaxEye develops satellite technology and provides geospatial intelligence capabilities. The company was the subject of an extended Series A financing in which it raised Rs 44.2 Crore (about $4.8 million). Public reporting about the company’s operations, customers, revenue, or user metrics was not provided in the article. The coverage likewise did not disclose specific product roadmaps or future plans beyond the funding announcement. Financially, the only disclosed detail is the recent capital raised in the extended Series A.

  • TidalScale

    Led · Equity · Aug 2021

    TidalScale offers a software layer that glues commodity servers together by aggregating cores, memory, and I/O, virtualizing those resources and presenting them as a unified software-defined server to the operating system. The solution requires no changes to applications or operating systems and is deployable within minutes on premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. TidalScale's software targets enterprises with exponential data growth, aiming to speed deployment, reduce cost, and improve in-memory compute performance for large database workloads. Infosys is making an additional $450,000 investment to be used for R&D, business development and working capital, bringing Infosys's total invested amount to $3.45 million. Infosys currently holds a minority stake in the company and expects the transaction to complete in Q2 FY22. TidalScale was founded in 2013 by Ike Nassi and is based in Los Gatos. TidalScale develops Software-Defined Server software that enables organizations to right-size virtual servers on demand, delivering in-memory performance at scale using standard hardware and without changes to applications or operating systems. The product aims to lower software licensing costs, sharpen competitive advantage, and reduce data center TCO while improving application performance. TidalScale positions its technology as combining the scalability of scale-out clusters with the simplicity of monolithic scale-up servers. The company demonstrates its solutions at industry events (for example, Gartner IO) and publishes white papers and research-backed materials. TidalScale has earned recognition such as Gartner Cool Vendor (2017), IDC Innovator (2017), and a Red Herring Top 100 Global award. The company is privately held and backed by a syndicate of strategic and financial investors. TidalScale builds Software-Defined Servers that deliver in-memory performance at any scale, are self-optimizing, run on commodity hardware, and are compatible with all applications and operating systems. The technology aims to let organizations scale systems quickly and affordably without costly hardware upgrades or software rewrites. TidalScale positions its product to help customers extract insights from big data faster and with greater flexibility, transforming the economics and time constraints of large-scale data work. The company is headquartered in Campbell, CA, and is led by President and CEO Gary Smerdon. In November 2016 TidalScale announced a strategic investment from Infosys to help bring its solutions across Infosys platforms and client offerings. The articles do not disclose revenue, users, or other operating financial metrics.

  • Trifacta

    Participated · Equity · Sep 2019

    Trifacta builds a self-service data wrangling platform for cleaning and preparing data used by analytics and ML teams. The platform is used by tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life and PepsiCo. Its data preparation technology is also leveraged by AI software vendors such as IBM and Google Cloud, which distribute Trifacta as their data-preparation standard. The company plans to use the new capital to accelerate adoption of its data wrangling platform and to expand into new geographies, verticals and product areas. Led by CEO Adam Wilson, Trifacta intends to continue growing its customer base and product footprint. The company secured $100M in financing in September 2019. Trifacta provides a cloud platform that leverages research in human-computer interaction, scalable data management and machine learning to facilitate data preparation. Its solution enables customers to balance self-service and data governance through collaborative curation and crowdsourcing of new data products. The platform supports deployments in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. Tens of thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies, including Deutsche Börse, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life and PepsiCo, use the platform globally. The company raised $48M in financing in the described round and has $124M in total financing to date. It intends to use the new funds to continue development of its data-wrangling platform and to accelerate cloud and geographic expansion. Trifacta provides data wrangling software aimed at enabling non-technical users to prepare data for exploratory analytics and enterprise analysis. Led by CEO Adam Wilson, the product focuses on transforming and enriching raw, complex big data into clean, structured formats. The company will integrate its data wrangling solution into the Infosys Information Platform (IIP) and other Infosys platforms and offerings as part of the investment. Infosys made an undisclosed investment in Trifacta. Trifacta is backed by Accel Partners, Greylock Partners and Ignition Partners. No revenue, user, valuation or deal-size figures were disclosed in the article. Trifacta is a San Francisco-based provider of data wrangling software that helps enterprises prepare big data for analysis. Its platform leverages human-computer interaction, scalable data management and machine learning to enable users to transform and enrich raw, complex data into clean, structured formats. The company offers Trifacta Wrangler, a free connected desktop edition of its software. Trifacta has users at more than 3,000 companies across 105 countries, with customers including Citco, TeliaSonera, Royal Bank of Scotland, Proctor & Gamble, Juniper Networks, Sanofi, Kaiser Permanente, Pfizer and PepsiCo. The company raised $35M in growth-stage financing and has raised more than $76M to date. It intends to use the funds to grow its global field organization and continue to innovate its products. Trifacta provides a data-transformation platform that automates converting raw data from sources like Hadoop into formats consumable by visualization and BI tools. Its interface suggests dropdown steps to manipulate data and then compiles those transformations into code that can run on big data environments. The company was founded in 2012 out of research at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Washington by Joe Hellerstein, Sean Kandel, and Jeffrey Heer and is based in San Francisco. Pricing is based on the volume of data processed and typically starts around $100,000 to $150,000. Customers span government and private sectors including media, healthcare, and IT; Lockheed Martin reported reducing a healthcare analytics workflow from six weeks to a single day using Trifacta. The company intends to use new financing to expand sales and marketing to reach more customers.

  • Waterline Data

    Participated · Series C · Oct 2018

    Waterline Data provides data cataloging solutions and applications that automate discovery, classification and governance of data at petabyte scale without compromising security. The company’s products are used by large financial, food & beverage, tech, healthcare, pharmaceutical and manufacturing firms, including Nordea, GSK and Fannie Mae. Waterline says it will use new funding to accelerate product innovation, pursue global expansion and expand go-to-market efforts. The company is led by CEO Kailash Ambwani with Ed Peek serving as SVP of Worldwide Sales. Waterline was founded in 2013 and is based in Mountain View, CA. To date the company has raised $37.5M in total capital. Waterline Data provides a data marketplace platform and a self-service data catalog that helps business analysts and data scientists find, understand, and provision data assets. Its solution aims to accelerate data preparation and analytics while enabling agile data governance through automated semantic discovery and data lineage. Founded in 2013 by CEO Alex Gorelik and based in Mountain View, CA, the company has backing from Menlo Ventures and Jackson Square Ventures. Waterline will use the new funding to expand sales and marketing operations and continue R&D investment. The company has raised $23m in total to date. Waterline Data Science develops Waterline Data Inventory to enable data self-service on Hadoop. The product helps users find, understand, and help govern Hadoop data. The company said it will use the $7M Series A proceeds to expand operations. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and the company is also backed by Sigma West. Founded in December 2013 and led by founder and CEO Alex Gorelik, Waterline is based in Mountain View, Calif. It was one of twelve finalists in the Startup Showcase at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York City.

Team

  • Nandan Nilekani

    Co-founder and Chairman of the Board

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  • N.R.Narayana Murthy

    Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor

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  • S.D. Shibulal

    Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board

  • Shiladitya Chakraborty

    Lead Senior Data Scientist

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