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Cisco
Corporate · Founded 1984 · San Jose, United States
The funds Cisco backs.
Cisco is a limited partner in 14 funds. 5 of them place in the Power Law Investor Ranking; those lead, best-ranked first.
Cisco’s biggest current holdings.
Cisco is a named shareholder in 3 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $150M in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 3 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.
Estimated value = Cisco’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Cisco also appears inside investor groups in Cohere, Cohesity, Island, Thinking Machines Lab, Uniphore, eSentire, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →
Cisco’s biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Cisco’s transaction record.
Where Cisco’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 314 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA237
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Israel15
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UK11
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India8
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Canada6
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Australia4
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China4
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Cuba3
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France3
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Germany3
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Sweden3
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Czechia2
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Enterprise Software105
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Telecom62
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Security43
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Media27
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Semiconductors20
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Marketing18
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Fintech15
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Hosting15
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Education7
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Energy7
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Health7
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Event Tech6
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Series B+94
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Series A32
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Seed16
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Breakout Stage141
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Early Growth91
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Late Growth68
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Mature12
Inside Cisco’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 314 tracked.
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CoWhere Cisco’s portfolio founders come from.
110 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States67
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Israel12
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China6
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Australia5
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Canada4
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India3
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Argentina2
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Russia2
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United Kingdom2
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Cuba1
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Stanford University9
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Tel Aviv University8
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University of California, Berkeley7
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Harvard Business School4
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Caltech, California Institute of Technology3
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University3
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Technion Israel Institute of Technology3
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University of California, Los Angeles3
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University of Toronto3
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Alphabet | Google11
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Intel Corporation5
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Cisco4
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Intel NAND Memory Unit4
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Baidu3
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eBay3
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Microsoft3
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Red Hat3
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Amazon2
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Andreessen Horowitz2
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
