Cisco Investments is the investment office of Cisco Systems. It is headquartered in San Jose. Founded in 1993, it invests $150-200 million annually in global companies. It targets investments in telecommunications related sectors. It has invested in the venture capital, IoT, SaaS, Big Data analytics, semiconductors, secrurity, cloud computing, and service provider sectors. The company follows a mandate from its parent company to expand the corporation's business in to emerging industry sectors.
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Funded Companies
U.S-based company providing cloud infrastructure for global software and hardware development and deployment.
A technology that designs carbon nanotube electronics, which can be used as memory devices. It was founded in 2001 and is located in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Gainsight is a privately held service as a software company founded in 2009 by Jim Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.
Theta Lake is a video classification startup dedicated to addressing the challenges organizations face in managing increasing video content and communication.
A global provider of camera-first, AI powered self-driving technology, formerly AdasWorks.
A provider of an automated communication platform in California that focuses on helping clinics orchestrate the entire care journey for patients.
A conversation analytics company for sales.
Dynamic Signal is a San Bruno, California-based company founded in 2010.
Upskill is a company founded in 2010.
Ascendify is a San Francisco-based company founded by Lauren Smith, Matt Hendrickson and Jason Ball.
Cohesity is a company providing hyperconverged secondary storage solutions.
Bit Stew Systems was a Burnaby-based software company founded in 2005.
BehavioSec is a Stockholm-based fraud detection systems developer based on models of behavior.
Actility is a software company providing low power wide area (LoRaWAN and 3GPP connectivity) network connectivity management.
VeloCloud Networks is a Palo Alto, California-based service provider company founded by Sanjay Uppal.