Cisco is a corporate venture arm. Based in San Jose, California, United States. Among the 15 companies in the known portfolio are Perplexity, Mistral AI, Affinity, World Labs, Actility and Aikido Technologies.
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Investment focus
- Focus
- Cloud InfrastructureCybersecurityDevOpsFoundation ModelsIoTMachine LearningNetworkingObservabilitySemiconductors
Contacts
Who to pitch at Cisco
Cisco portfolio companies (15)
- Perplexity
- Mistral AI
- Affinity
- World Labs
- Actility
- Aikido Technologies
- Terradot
- HelloSky
- Chloris Geospatial
- Carbon Reform
- Nanya Technology Corporation
- Thinking Machines Lab
- ATP Partners
- Vectorly
- Ormit Solutions
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About Cisco
The firm's listing covers sectors AI, Climate, Hardware and SaaS, and focus areas Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, DevOps and Foundation Models; known deals cluster at Late-Stage, Seed and Series A.
Of the 32 people on file at Cisco, Ronald Jones (Managing Partner) and Laercio Albuquerque (President) are listed as the contacts to approach first.
Across the known portfolio, 20 co-investors appear alongside Cisco, including Cisco Foundation, Azolla Ventures and Quassar Capital.
Frequently asked questions
What is Cisco?
Cisco is a corporate venture arm based in San Jose, California, United States, with a known portfolio of 15 companies. The portfolio comes from public investment records rather than from the firm, so deals that never surfaced publicly are not in it.
What does Cisco invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Climate, Hardware and SaaS; listed focus areas include Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, DevOps and Foundation Models. Those tags come from the portfolio attached to the firm, so they describe what has been backed rather than a stated mandate for what comes next.
What stage does Cisco invest at?
The known deals of Cisco include Late-Stage, Seed and Series A rounds. Check that against your own round before reaching out: stage mismatch is the most common reason a well matched sector still goes nowhere.
Who should I pitch at Cisco?
2 of the 32 people on file at Cisco are listed as contacts for the firm. All 32 have their own profile page.
How do I contact Cisco?
Any email address on file for the firm is masked on this page and readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account. The 32 people attached to the firm have their own pages, each showing whether an address is on file for them.
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