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Cisco Investments

Venture Capital

Est. 1993, San Jose. $2B active portfolio, 80+ direct investments, 35+ LP funds. Team: 44 people (16 partners). Recent portfolio: RingCentral, Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral AI, Scale AI, Robust Intelligence, DataRobot, Binarly. 19 unicorns exited; 17 IPOs, 160+ acquisitions. Multi-pronged strategy: invest, acquire, partner. Board seats, portfolio dev team, Cisco ecosystem access. Global reach.

Check Size
£1.6M - £40M

Investment Thesis

Corporate VC investing Series A to growth, incl. late-stage. Focus: AI infrastructure, security, networking, collaboration, cloud, data centers. Check size £2-50m+ globally. 40+ investment professionals across US, Canada, China, India, Israel, Europe. Strategic intent + financial returns; portfolio dev adds value. Avoid: non-strategic alignment, weak founding teams. Recent pivot: $1B AI fund (2024) on secure, trustworthy AI, LLMs, GenAI infrastructure.

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