Cisco Investments
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Cisco Investments is an active investor with more than 40 investment professionals with deep market and technology expertise located in major geographies, including US, Canada, China, India, Israel, and Europe. Over the last 20 years, Cisco Investments has invested in hundreds of companies across different segments and helped them build to successful IPOs or acquisitions. They currently have an active portfolio of $2B with over 80 direct investments around the world, and they also hold Limited Partner positions in over 35 funds globally.
- Total investments:
- 284
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
- Fund size:
- $1B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Cisco Investments invests in
Stages Cisco Investments invests in
Countries Cisco Investments invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Series A
- $6M–$45M
- Series B
- $7.5M–$53M
- Series C
- $16M–$90M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 79 (28%)
- Information Technology 46 (16%)
- Cyber Security 40 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 34 (12%)
- SaaS 26 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 49 (17%)
- Series A 42 (15%)
- Series C 41 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 23 (8%)
- Series D 18 (6%)
Country
- United States 128 (45%)
- Israel 12 (4%)
- United Kingdom 4 (1%)
- Canada 3 (1%)
- Singapore 3 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Anthony Paulin
Software Engineer
|
Software Engineer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Donald Tucker
Head of Venture Investments & Corp Dev for Cisco Collaboration & App Dynamics
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Head of Venture Investments & Corp Dev for Cisco Collaboration & App Dynamics | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Janey Hoe
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Richard Barnes
Chief Security Architect for Collaboration
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Chief Security Architect for Collaboration | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
R. Scott Herren
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 23 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Inference Hardware | $500M / Series C / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space. | $250M / Series A / Aug 21, 2026 | ||
| Eliyan manufactures semiconductor interconnects to accelerate chiplet-based systems. | $145M / Series C / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Zafran Security is a cybersecurity startup specializing in vulnerability prioritization and threat exposure management, aiming to identify, remediate, and mitigate risks within organizations. The AI-native exposure management platform developed by the company aims to proactively avert the exploitation of vulnerabilities by incorporating autonomousagents throughout all stages of the vulnerability management lifecycle. With threat actors rapidly exploiting newly revealed security vulnerabilities through AI automation, Zafran's platform enables organizations to take action before these vulnerabilities result in incidents. The company’s solutions work alongside current security tools, utilizing AI agents to pinpoint weaknesses, provide contextual information, and address these issues by linking them to controls and evaluating the potential for exploitation. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| Atom Computing builds truly scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms.The company's quantum computers use quantum mechanical properties of atoms to process information and solve problems beyond the reach of traditional computers, including drug design, computational chemistry, and more.Atom Computing was founded in 2018 and basedin Berkeley, California. | $100M / Series C / Jun 16, 2026 | ||
| CorPower Ocean AB was founded in 2009 to develop high efficiency Wave Energy Converters (WECs).CorPower's Wave Energy Converters deliver five times higher annual energy output per ton of device compared to previously known wave power solutions. The step-change improvement in performance and efficiency allows a Cost-of-Energy that cancompete with offshore wind. The products are currently in pilot with Iberdrola. CorPower has assembled a team with extensive experience in energy generation, design and manufacturing of production equipment, system engineering as well as the market expertise to allow us to continue transforming the technology of tomorrow into renewable energy applications of today. | $61.7M / Series B / May 26, 2026 | ||
| ODC provides an AI-optimized, cloud-native, and scalable AI-RAN platform | $45M / Series A / Mar 26, 2026 | ||
| WideField Security is a seed-stage cybesecurity startup. Backed by leading seed investors like Engineering Capital, WideField aims to solve pressing challenges in enterprise identity security. | Series A / Mar 19, 2026 | ||
| Aliro Quantum, The Quantum Networking Company™, offers AliroNet™ to emulate, pilot, and deploy entanglement-based quantum networks that are capable of running a wide variety of applications from secure communications to clustered quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing. Aliro, spun out of NarangLab at Harvard University, includesworld-class experts in quantum and classical networking and is leading the charge in quantum network development by offering the foundational technologies needed for organizations around the world to build scalable and powerful distributed quantum systems. AliroNet™ users include utility companies, telecommunications providers, public sector organizations, enterprises, and researchers who are simulating, designing, piloting, orchestrating, and building the world's first entanglement-based quantum networks.Aliro also works with industry and academic partners through the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), the NSF Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN). Additionally, Aliro is involved in several quantum networking standards groups at IEEE and QED-C. | $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 18, 2026 | ||
| Gruve is a startup focused on transforming AI strategies into tangible outcomes for enterprises, leveraging AI-driven solutions to boost growth and security. The company specializes in providing innovative AI solutions that streamline operations, improve decision-making, and facilitate digital success for businesses. | $50M / Series A / Feb 03, 2026 | ||
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FAQ
What does Cisco Investments invest in?
Cisco Investments invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Cyber Security startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 284 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Cisco Investments invest in?
Cisco Investments typically joins rounds of $6M–$45M at Series A, $7.5M–$53M at Series B and $16M–$90M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Cisco Investments's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Cisco Investments took part in.
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Who are the partners at Cisco Investments?
The team at Cisco Investments includes Anthony Paulin (Software Engineer), Donald Tucker (Head of Venture Investments & Corp Dev for Cisco Collaboration & App Dynamics) and Janey Hoe (Vice President), among 23 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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