# Donald Tucker

> Donald Tucker is a Series A investor at Cisco Investments backing Software and SaaS. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cisco Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cisco-investments)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-tucker-26169a1/

Donald Tucker is a Series A investor at Cisco Investments in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Donald Tucker leads Cisco’s acquisition and investment efforts related to the market for Collaboration products and services. Donald joined Cisco from Oracle via the acquisition of Responsys, and prior to that spent time at Jefferies & Co., Liberty Mutual Investments and Chevron in a variety of finance, investment and research roles.Donaldholds an MBA from Wharton, and a bachelor of science in Business from Cal Poly.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 100% |
| SaaS | 3 | 50% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| Music | 1 | 17% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series E | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 83% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Highnote | Highnote is creating a platform for musicians and podcasters to collaborate. It enables musicians, podcasters, and other creators to collaborate on audio files by recording voice notes directly over a track, creating timestamped reactions, and polling for feedback. It aspires to be a one-stop shop for musicians, podcasters, and their collaboratorsto listen to audio files and have conversations.Highnote is completely free to use and does not require a download. Users can create an account by visiting www.highnote.fm, which is accessible from any device. | $2.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Lakera | Lakera is a real-time GenAI security company. The company is dedicated to ensuring the safe and responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies. To accelerate the secure adoption of AI, the company developed Gandalf, an educational tool that has taught over one million users about AI security. Lakera leverages AI tocontinually evolve its defenses, enabling customers to stay ahead of emerging threats. | $20M | Series A | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| LightBeam.ai | LightBeam.ai is a pioneer in the data security and privacy automation category, LightBeam is on a mission to empower organizations to manage and access their sensitive data securely. Leveraging its identity-centric discovery & classification engine, it ties data cataloging, access, and sharing into a unified privacy control tower. LightBeamempowers privacy and compliance executives to keep their organizations under continuous compliance, while information security executives can finally rest assured that sensitive data is being used and accessed securely. | $17.8M | Series A | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Augie Studio | Aug X Labs is an AI-based “prompt to video” technology and publishing startup focused on helping creators bring relevant and compelling visuals into their video stories. Our primary focus is to build tools for creators that help democratize video creation by transforming anyone’s words or thoughts into dynamic, engaging, and relevant video contentin mere minutes. We are a company intent on making technology easier for creators, allowing them to focus on having fun while engaging with their communities. | $3.1M | Seed | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| CloudCherry | CloudCherry is the next generation Experience Management platform that is disrupting the way organizations listen to the Voice of Customer. Through CloudCherry’s flexible, customizable, self-serve solution, businesses today can be present at every step of today’s complex customer journeys, and listen to customers through a variety of ways. Today,leading global organizations deploy and scale their experience management program with CloudCherry quicker than any other solution. The product offers out-of-the-box integrations with existing business applications, delivers predictive, prescriptive insights that enable business leaders to better understand customer needs, and derive tangible business outcomes that can help drive true ROI. CloudCherry is based out of Salt Lake City, with offices in Singapore, India & Dubai. The company is backed by Vertex Ventures, CISCO Investments & IDG Ventures India, The Chennai Angels & Capillary Technologies. | $9M | Series A | Sep 06, 2018 |  |
| Firstup | Dynamic Signal is an employee communication and engagement platform connecting companies with their valued asset and their employees. The company is driving reach, productivity, and advocacy provides a better and faster way for employees and their audiences to receive enterprise signals. It increases productivity and empowers advocacy by informingand engaging employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. Dynamic Signal ensures communications are received by employees and their audiences alike. It offers influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services.Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises, including 85 of the Fortune 500, trust Dynamic Signal to deliver their enterprise signal in 21 countries around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company’s world class customers include IBM, Edelman, Ingram Micro, Salesforce, Autodesk, Domo, SurveyMonkey, and Humana. Dynamic Signal is based in San Francisco, California. | $36.5M | Series E | Feb 20, 2018 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Adams Street Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adams-street-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Akkadian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akkadian-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About 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 tosuccessful 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.

5 contacts available at Cisco Investments.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Paulin | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-paulin |
| Donald Tucker | Head of Venture Investments & Corp Dev for Cisco Collaboration & App Dynamics | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donald-tucker |
| Janey Hoe | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janey-hoe |
| Richard Barnes | Chief Security Architect for Collaboration | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-barnes |
| Scott Herren | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-herren-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Donald Tucker invest in?

Donald Tucker invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Donald Tucker last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Donald Tucker closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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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