Cisco Investments
ciscoinvestments.com Direct + LP
Cisco Investments is the corporate venture capital arm of Cisco, investing in startups and venture funds across various technology domains. It provides strategic support, access to Cisco's salesforce, and portfolio development resources.
Cisco Investments is a corporate venture arm headquartered in San Jose, United States. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, in silicon & Optics, services & CX, collaboration and cloud. 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We look for expertise, and those with eyes on the same future.”
— Cisco Investments, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Stage
- Unknown
- Headquarters
- San Jose, United States
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- Silicon & Optics, Services & CX, Collaboration, Cloud, IT Ops, Security, Enterprise Networking, IoT, Emerging Technologies & Incubation, Mass Scale Infrastructure, Data Center Networking
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
Team, as Cisco Investments publishes it
- Janey Hoe Vice President, Cisco Investments
- Jon Koplin Managing Director, Cisco Investments
- Derek Idemoto Senior Vice President, Cisco Investments
- Prasad Parthasarathi Senior Director, Cisco Investments
- Aleem Rizvon Vice President, Cisco Investments
Names and roles exactly as listed on ciscoinvestments.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 117 co-investors found.
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 4 shared companies: anthropic.com, fiddler.ai, mistral.ai, cohere.com
- Index Ventures 3 shared companies: anthropic.com, mistral.ai, cohere.com
- Valkyrie Ventures Management, LLC 3 shared companies: anthropic.com, mistral.ai, langchain.com
- SYN Ventures 3 shared companies: halcyon.ai, query.ai, netfoundry.io
- Camford Capital Management, LLC 2 shared companies: anthropic.com, fleak.ai
- Factorial Funds 2 shared companies: anthropic.com, mistral.ai
- Grão 2 shared companies: anthropic.com, cohere.com
- Integra Groupe 2 shared companies: anthropic.com, mistral.ai
- IVP 2 shared companies: anthropic.com, langchain.com
- LG Technology Ventures 2 shared companies: anthropic.com, fiddler.ai
and 107 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Cisco Investments publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.ciscoinvestments.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, people, status
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