Infosys Invests an Additional USD 1.5 Million in Waterline Data Science

BENGALURU, India, March 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

Infosys (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services, today announced that it has made a follow-on investment of USD 1.5 million through the Infosys Innovation Fund in Waterline Data Science, a leading provider of data discovery and data governance software. Infosys had made an initial investment of USD 4 million in the company in January 2016.

Waterline Data Science provides data scientists and business analysts a self-service data catalog to help discover, understand and provision data, and an automated data inventory that enables agile data governance across metadata, data quality and data lineage.

The investment is expected to be completed by April 6, 2018, subject to necessary approvals.

Disclosure under SEBI Listing Regulation- 

    Investment
                                         Waterline Data Science Inc., a Delaware
    Name of the target entity            Corporation

    Whether related party transaction(s)
    and whether the promoter/ promoter
    group/ group companies have any
    interest in the entity being
    acquired?                            No.

    Industry to which the entity being
    invested into belongs                IT software and consulting services

                                         Waterline Data Science provides a data
                                         inventory and cataloguing solution that
                                         helps business analysts and data
    Objects and effects of the           scientists with data discovery and data
    investment                           governance.

    Any governmental or regulatory
    approvals required                   None

    Indicative time period for           Expected to be completed on or before
    completion                           April 6, 2018.

    Nature of consideration              Cash

                                         USD 1.5 million investment in Series C
    Cost of investment                   Preferred

                                         A minority holding, not exceeding 20% of
                                         the outstanding share capital of the
    Percentage of shareholding           company

                                         Originally incorporated on December 11,
    Brief background                     2013 with presence in the US

About Infosys

Infosys is a global leader in technology services and consulting. We enable clients in 45 countries to create and execute strategies for their digital transformation. From engineering to application development, knowledge management and business process management, we help our clients find the right problems to solve, and to solve these effectively. Our team of 200,000+ innovators, across the globe, is differentiated by the imagination, knowledge and experience, across industries and technologies that we bring to every project we undertake.

Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise thrive in the digital age.

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Media contacts:

Asia Pacific
Sarah Gideon
Infosys, India
+91-80-4156-3998
[email protected]

EMEA
Margherita Di Cerbo
Infosys, Europe
+44-2075162748
[email protected]

Americas
Chiku Somaiya
Infosys, USA
+1-408-375-2722
[email protected]

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