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Cisco Investments
Corporate VC · San Jose, CA, United States · North America
Cisco Investments is the corporate investment arm of Cisco, investing in and acquiring companies alongside Cisco's Corporate Development and domain businesses. It supports portfolio companies with access to Cisco's sales and marketing organization, customer base, and domain experts through a Portfolio Development team.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
In its own wordsenterprise networkingsecuritycloudiotsiliconai
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Or find every investor that fitsCisco Investments lists 209 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 11 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 70% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (28%), Cybersecurity (25%) and Enterprise Software (13%). 71% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Lightspeed Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cisco Investments, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Cisco Investments' whole history. Rounds on record name 10 companies; its own site lists 209. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundCisco Investments does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 20% |
| Series B | 10% |
| Growth | 70% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 1 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 99th | 209 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 63th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 46th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 99th | 18 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 25% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 5% | 15% |
| Media & Entertainment | 2% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 2% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 15 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 15 |
| Battery Ventures | 10 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 10 |
| Insight Partners | 10 |
| Sequoia Capital | 10 |
| Samsung Catalyst Fund | 9 |
| Sapphire Ventures | 8 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers19191%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company189%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Lightspeed Venture Partners
Compare Cisco Investments head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Cisco Investments| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 29 Jul 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 22 Jul 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 24 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 28 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 20 Oct 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Cisco Investments
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cisco Investments' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
209 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company invests in high growth SMEs and partners with exceptional founders to scale internationally | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| 6WIND provides virtualized networking software solutions. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | |||
| Acrew invests in companies, specifically in the early stages from seed to series A | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Actility provides IoT solutions and services, including connectivity, value-added services, and enablement services | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Adbrain empowers companies to solve customer identity fragmentation by unifying varied quality data sources | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aimotive provides automated driving tooling and embedded solutions | AI & Machine LearningMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Airtop compiles user-described workflows into automated agents that can run on schedules and interact with various applications and websites. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Aisera provides automation solutions for IT service management and operations | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Alchemist Accelerator is an early-stage venture firm that invests in deeply technical teams and guides them to enterprise traction. | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Algebra Ventures invests in and partners with companies, particularly those founded by entrepreneurs in Egypt and Africa | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aliro helps researchers and network operators simulate architectures, integrate quantum hardware, and turn experimental systems into functional networks. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Almaz Capital provides financial backing to companies | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ambiq makes unprecedented energy-efficient SoCs and ultra-low power platform solutions that enable edge AI on billions of battery-powered devices. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Anthropic develops AI models and products, including the Claude models, and conducts AI safety research. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| AppOmni provides security solutions for SaaS and AI applications for enterprises | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Apptio provides technology investment management solutions | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Aravo provides third-party risk management software and services | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Arcade provides a runtime layer that sits between AI agents and the external systems they access, letting teams enforce, execute, and govern agent actions through a single control point. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company supports businesses in developing new services and strategies, including innovation organization, internal new business creation, and open innovation execution | Industrial & ManufacturingFintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- ciscoinvestments.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 3 Dec 2019
- Companies checked
- 209
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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