A seasoned technology investor, Keep joins Blueflame from Recognize Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in digital services businesses. At Recognize, Keep helped deploy the firm’s inaugural fund and played a pivotal role in evaluating investment opportunities across thematic focus areas. Additionally, he co-led efforts to adopt AI internally and realize its potential to accelerate diligence processes and drive value creation across the portfolio. Prior to Recognize, Keep was an investor at Audax Group, a middle-market private equity firm, where he invested in healthcare and technology companies. He graduated cum laude from Duke University with a B.S. in Economics and a minor in Computer Science.