# Janey Hoe

> Janey Hoe is a venture - series unknown investor at Cisco Investments backing Cyber Security. See 14 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: 14
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janeyhoe/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/janey_c_h
- Website: https://x.com/janey_c_h

Janey Hoe is a vice president of Cisco Investments. Previously, she held multiple product management, technical marketing, and business development leadership roles at Cisco, operating multi-billion dollar product lines as well as pioneering new products in switching, security, data center, and video collaboration. Along with her team, she wasrecognized as a finalist for the Pioneer Award, the highest honor for innovation at Cisco. Prior to Cisco, Janey was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Before McKinsey, Janey worked on network protocol research with MIT LCS Laboratory, AT&T Laboratories, and HP Laboratories. Her work on TCP/IP performance improvements has been widely implemented and referenced.Janey holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer sciences from U.C. Berkeley and MIT respectively.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 9 | 64% |
| Software | 8 | 57% |
| SaaS | 5 | 36% |
| Network Security | 5 | 36% |
| Security | 3 | 21% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 36% |
| Series A | 4 | 29% |
| Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Series E | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 86% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zafran Security | 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 |  |
| WideField Security | 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 |  |
| NetFoundry | NetFoundry provides a software-defined networking platform focused on zero trust architecture. Its solutions enable organizations to create secure, microsegmented overlay networks, known as AppNets, that operate independently of traditional network infrastructure. The platform includes components such as Ziti Fabric for virtual overlays, Ziti Edgefor endpoint connectivity, and Ziti Console for network orchestration. NetFoundry offers deployment options across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments, supporting integration with major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Developers can embed zero trust networking directly into applications using available SDKs, facilitating secure communication for various use cases, including DevOps, IIoT, and remote management. The platform emphasizes identity-based access controls, end-to-end encryption, and the elimination of inbound firewall ports to reduce attack surfaces.oud administrators, container orchestration engineers, DevOps, DevSecOps, network admins, etc. | $15M | Series A | Nov 24, 2025 |  |
| Halcyon | OUR MISSION: DEFEAT RANSOMWAREModern defensive cyber solutions, while impressive, have failed in the face of cheap and easy-to-create – and most importantly lucrative – ransomware. High-profile breaches are disguising an ugly fact; the companies using next-generation NGAV and EPP solutions continue to be impacted by ransomware Halcyon has builtthe first anti-ransomware engine to tackle this problem. Our team has spent decades building name-brand security products and delivering security consulting to much of the Fortune 500.Split between San Diego, CA and Austin, TX, Halcyon was formed in 2021 by a team of cyber industry veterans after battling the scourge of ransomware (and advanced threats) for years at some of the largest security global security vendors. Comprised of leaders from Cylance (now Blackberry), Accuvant (now Optiv), and ISS X-Force (now IBM), Halcyon is focused on building products and solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.For more info, please contact: press@halcyon.ai | $100M | Series C | Nov 25, 2024 |  |
| VISO TRUST | VISO Trust is a SaaS third-party cyber risk management for the modern enterprise. VISO Trust puts reliable, comprehensive, actionable vendor security information directly in the hands of decision-makers who need to make informed risk assessments. | $7M |  | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Binarly | Binarly is a global firmware and software supply chain security company founded in 2021. The company’s flagship Binarly Transparency Platform is an enterprise-class, AI-powered solution used by device manufacturers, OEMs, IBVs and product security teams to identify known and unknown vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and signs of malicious codeimplantation. Binarly’s validated remediation playbooks have significantly reduced the cost and time to respond to security exposures. Based in Los Angeles, California, Binarly brings decades of research and program analysis expertise to build solutions to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, and consumers around the world. | $10.5M | Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Voiceitt | Voiceitt is an automatic speech recognition technology platform. Voiceitt provides a new dimension of independence and quality of life for people with speech and motor disabilities, and a useful tool for those who care for and about them. | $4.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 02, 2022 |  |
| Elevate Security | Elevate identifies users most likely to cause a ransomware, data loss or account takeover breach and orchestrates additional security to minimize the likelihood of an incident. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| AppOmni | AppOmni is a leading provider of SaaS Security Management software. The company was founded by a team of security veterans from top SaaS providers and cybersecurity vendors, and its customer base includes global leaders across technology, healthcare, banking, and finance as well as many of the most well-known cybersecurity providers.Its patentedtechnology scans APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to compare the current state of enterprise SaaS deployments against best practices and business intent. The solution offers fast deployment, instant visibility, and makes it easy for security and IT teams to secure their entire SaaS environment from each vendor to every end-user. As SaaS applications evolve, AppOmni stays current with all updates and releases to keep customer environments secure over time.Co-founders Brendan O'Connor and Brian Soby headquartered AppOmni in San Francisco, California in 2018. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| oak9 | Cybersecurity SaaS Platform for Developers | $8M | Series A | Jun 29, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Evolution Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolution-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HPA (Hyde Park Angels)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals 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 Janey Hoe invest in?

Janey Hoe invests primarily in Cyber Security, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Janey Hoe last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Janey Hoe closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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