Cisco Investments is the corporate venture capital arm of Cisco Systems, strategically investing in startups across key sectors like AI, cybersecurity, cloud, IoT, and 5G to drive technological advancements and business growth. They provide financial backing, including a recent $1B AI investment fund, alongside strategic guidance and access to Cisco's extensive network, with a primary goal of fostering innovation that aligns with Cisco's strategic priorities.
32% of their portfolio is in Cybersecurity. Deal activity decreased year-over-year (8 deals in the last 12 months vs 14 prior). Average disclosed round size is $197.3M (across 64 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
69
Fund Size
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Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
8
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
69 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 ORAN Development Company, LLC | Series A | $45M | Mar 2026 |
| ORAN Development Company, LLC | Series A | $45M | Mar 2026 |
 Aliro | Series A | $15M | Feb 2026 |
 World Labs | Unknown | — | Nov 2025 |
| WWorld Labs Technologies, Inc. | Unknown | — | Nov 2025 |
 Thinking Machines Lab | Seed | $2B | Jul 2025 |
 Parter | Seed | $5.5M | Jul 2025 |
 Maven AGI | Series B | $50M | Jun 2025 |
| GGetReal | Series A | $17.5M | Mar 2025 |
 GetReal Security | Series A | $17.5M | Mar 2025 |
 Anthropic | Series E | $3.5B | Mar 2025 |
 SGNL | Series A | $30M | Feb 2025 |
 Enfabrica | Series C | $115M | Nov 2024 |
 Lightning AI | Series C | $50M | Nov 2024 |
 DEScycle | Series A | $12.2M | Nov 2024 |
 CorPower Ocean | Series B | $32M | Oct 2024 |
 Cohere | Series D | $500M | Jul 2024 |
 Mistral AI | Series B | $640M | Jun 2024 |
| MMistral | Series B | $600M | Jun 2024 |
 Scale AI | Growth | $1B | May 2024 |
 StrongDM | Series C | $34M | May 2024 |
 Corelight | Series E | $150M | Apr 2024 |
 Aviz Networks | Unknown | $10M | Nov 2023 |
 Binalyze | Series A | $19M | Sep 2023 |
| OOort | Series A | $11.5M | Oct 2022 |
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Top Co-Investors
Nvidia13 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners8 shared
Salesforce8 shared
ServiceNow8 shared
Sequoia Capital6 shared
Accel6 shared
GV (Google Ventures)5 shared
Andreessen Horowitz5 shared
M12 (Microsoft)5 shared
Menlo Ventures4 shared
Intel Capital4 shared
AMD Ventures4 shared
Battery Ventures4 shared
Norwest Venture Partners4 shared
General Catalyst4 shared
Bessemer Venture Partners4 shared
Evolution Equity Partners3 shared
Capital One Ventures3 shared
Spark Capital3 shared
Khosla Ventures3 shared
Last updated: 12 April 2026