# Cisco Foundation

> Cisco Foundation is a VC fund backing Environmental Engineering, Energy and Farming. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco
- Website: https://www.cisco.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cisco

Cisco Foundation is a VC fund focused on Environmental Engineering and Energy. Cisco Foundation helps to create technology-based solutions in our investment, and works with non-governmental , non profit organization

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Environmental Engineering | 2 | 25% |
| Energy | 1 | 13% |
| Farming | 1 | 13% |
| Finance | 1 | 13% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 13% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Grant | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Ghana | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MittiLabs | Mitti Labs is a deeptech company that leverages AI, satellite technology, and field operations to permanently reduce methane emissions from rice farming. By doing this, we unlock the potential of rice-based carbon credits for measurable climate action at scale. Loved and consumed by half the world’s population daily, rice farming has GHG emissionsequivalent to the global aviation industry, due to methane. Our work transforms a critical agricultural sector into a high-integrity source of climate impact, water savings, and farmer income. We empower smallholder farmers across the global south to adopt climate-smart practices that are measurable, traceable, and economically rewarding. Backed by leading investors, our team is building the infrastructure to scale climate-smart rice farming and unlock real impact from the ground up. | $9.5M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| MittiLabs | Mitti Labs is a deeptech company that leverages AI, satellite technology, and field operations to permanently reduce methane emissions from rice farming. By doing this, we unlock the potential of rice-based carbon credits for measurable climate action at scale. Loved and consumed by half the world’s population daily, rice farming has GHG emissionsequivalent to the global aviation industry, due to methane. Our work transforms a critical agricultural sector into a high-integrity source of climate impact, water savings, and farmer income. We empower smallholder farmers across the global south to adopt climate-smart practices that are measurable, traceable, and economically rewarding. Backed by leading investors, our team is building the infrastructure to scale climate-smart rice farming and unlock real impact from the ground up. | $9.5M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Piq Energy | Piq Energy provides a grid planning software platform designed to manage and accelerate the grid interconnection process for power projects. The company's platform integrates standard engineering tools, network models, and queue data into a unified workflow for energy developers, utilities, and grid operators. This software automatesengineering studies and evaluates transmission technologies to identify viable sites and unlock grid capacity. The central value proposition focuses on reducing the time required to connect energy generators and large loads to the electrical grid. | $5M | Seed | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Affinity | Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services. |  | Grant | Feb 16, 2026 |  |
| Chloris Geospatial | Chloris Geospatial is able to provide answers today to critical natural capital issues. Chloris Geospatial provides innovative measurements of natural capital that use cutting-edge remote sensing, machine learning, and ecological science. | $14.8M | Series A | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Carbon Reform | Carbon Reform is a climate-tech startup that offers a modular carbon capture and pollution-control device to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Carbon Reform combines climate and indoor health technology to produce decentralized, permanent carbon capture, energy savings, and occupant-healthy indoor air. Carbon Reform implements a multi-phaseapproach to determine what's in the air, and how they can work with the existing infrastructure to make it better. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 04, 2025 |  |
| Aikido Technologies | Aikido Technologies develops innovative floating wind technologies. | $4M | Seed | Jun 17, 2024 |  |
| Chloris Geospatial | Chloris Geospatial is able to provide answers today to critical natural capital issues. Chloris Geospatial provides innovative measurements of natural capital that use cutting-edge remote sensing, machine learning, and ecological science. |  | Seed | May 29, 2024 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aramco Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aramco-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lightspeed India Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners-india) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Volta Circle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volta-circle) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Azolla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azolla-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Francis Family Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francis-family-funds) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Godrej Industries Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/godrej-industries-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Cisco Foundation invest in?

Cisco Foundation invests primarily in Environmental Engineering, Energy and Farming startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Cisco Foundation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cisco Foundation closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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