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Cisco Investments

Corporate · Founded 1993 · San Jose, United States

Venture capital arm of Cisco

159 portfolio companies Corporate · $31B invested · 205 investments · Investor rank #87 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies 159 ↑ 41% 5y
Decacorns 4
Thoroughbreds 25 ↑ 31% 5y
01 · Biggest holdings

Cisco Investments’ biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Cisco Investments still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Where a cap table names Cisco Investments directly, the stake and its estimated value are shown too.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 AnthropicCenticorn · Enterprise Software · USA $965B
  2. 2 xAICenticorn · Enterprise Software · USA $250B
  3. 3 GongUnicorn · Marketing · USA 2% $7.2B $145M
  4. 4 CohesityUnicorn · Security · USA $7.0B
  5. 5 DataRobotUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $6.3B
  6. 6 IslandUnicorn · Security · USA $4.5B
  7. 7 UniphoreUnicorn · Telecom · USA $2.5B
  8. 8 ExabeamUnicorn · Security · USA $2.4B
  9. 9 21.coUnicorn · Fintech · Switzerland $2.0B
  10. 10 eSentireUnicorn · Security · Canada $1.1B
  11. 11 EliyanUnicorn · Semiconductors · USA $1.0B
  12. 12 ExpelUnicorn · Security · USA 0.2% $1.0B $2M

Estimated value = Cisco Investments’ disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Cisco Investments also appears inside investor groups in Cohere, Cohesity, Island, Thinking Machines Lab, Uniphore, eSentire, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

02 · Exits

Cisco Investments’ 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 Investments’ transaction record.

$23B IPO · 2025
Now $82BHosting
$29B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+Enterprise Software
$14B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $7.1BSecurity
$155M IPO · 2014
Entered Series ANow $7.7BSemiconductors
$790M IPO · 2013
Entered Series B+Now $6.3BTelecom
$6.2B IPO · 2020
Now $6.2BHome Living
$872M IPO · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $4.6BEnterprise Software
$347M IPO · 2012
Now $3.1BTelecom
$2.4B acquisition · 2018
Security
$2.0B acquisition · 2019
Semiconductors
$1.7B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+Security
$1.5B acquisition · 2021
Legal
03 · Portfolio analysis

Where Cisco Investments’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 159 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA182
  2. Israel14
  3. India9
  4. Canada5
  5. China5
  6. UK5
  7. Australia4
  8. France4
  9. Cuba3
  10. Japan2
  11. South Korea2
  12. Sweden2
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software114
  2. Security53
  3. Telecom29
  4. Semiconductors24
  5. Marketing19
  6. Media19
  7. Fintech10
  8. Hosting8
  9. Energy7
  10. Home Living6
  11. Transportation6
  12. Education5
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+101
  2. Series A51
  3. Seed5
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage116
  2. Late Growth95
  3. Early Growth37
  4. Mature3
04 · Portfolio market map

Inside Cisco Investments’ portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 159 tracked.

Anthropic
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$965B
xAI
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$250B
CoreWeave
Hosting · Decacorn
$82B
Scale
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$29B
DataRobot
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$6.3B
Mavenir Systems
Telecom
$231M
4Paradigm
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.5B
Uniphore
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.5B
Island
Security · Unicorn
$4.5B
Cohesity
Security · Unicorn
$7.0B
Gong
Marketing · Unicorn
$7.3B
Ozon
Home Living · Unicorn
$6.2B
Dremio
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$2.0B
Exabeam
Security · Unicorn
$2.4B
HashiCorp
Security · Unicorn
$7.1B
Near
Telecom
$81M
Altiostar Networks
Telecom
$456M
Corelight
Security
$600M
Ambiq
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$1.3B
Eliyan
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$1.0B
Expel
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Innovid
Fintech
$432M
Kustomer
Enterprise Software
$300M
Apptio
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$4.6B
Seeq
Enterprise Software
$535M
MapR
Enterprise Software
$224M
PacketVideo
Media
$182M
Enfabrica
Semiconductors
$460M
Aquantia
Semiconductors
$148M
eSentire
Security · Unicorn
$1.1B
whatfix
Education
$870M
Mobikwik
Fintech
$221M
Halcyon
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Atom Computing
Semiconductors
$400M
Looking Glass Networks
Telecom
Deskera
Marketing
$400M
CTERA Networks
Enterprise Software
$120M
Nantero
Semiconductors
$8.0M
Puppet
Enterprise Software
$210M
End2End Holdings
Telecom
Luxtera
Semiconductors
$150M
Gainsight
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
Securiti
Security · Unicorn
$1.7B
Luma Health
Health
$520M
Servion Global Solutions
Enterprise Software
ActionIQ
Marketing
$272M
Ayla Networks
Security
$300M
Upstream Security
Security
$248M
HYCU
Security
$438M
Zafran
Security
$240M
Qwilt
Media
$800M
PubNub
Enterprise Software
$260M
NEAR
Travel
$400M
WSO2
Enterprise Software
$600M
CNEX LABS
Semiconductors
$134M
Parsable
Enterprise Software
$240M
Celeno
Semiconductors
$315M
Tilera
Semiconductors
$130M
Dynamic Signal
Telecom
$40M
CorPower Ocean
Energy
$176M
05 · Portfolio founders

Where Cisco Investments’ portfolio founders come from.

187 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.

LocationCount
  1. United States121
  2. Israel27
  3. India7
  4. Australia5
  5. China5
  6. Canada2
  7. Cuba2
  8. France2
  9. Russia2
  10. Sweden2
UniversityCount
  1. Tel Aviv University14
  2. Technion Israel Institute of Technology9
  3. University of California, Berkeley9
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology8
  5. Stanford University8
  6. Harvard University6
  7. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi4
  8. Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
  9. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev3
  10. Columbia University3
Previous companyCount
  1. Microsoft16
  2. IBM8
  3. Alphabet | Google7
  4. Intel Corporation6
  5. Cisco5
  6. HP Enterprise5
  7. Intel NAND Memory Unit5
  8. OpenAI5
  9. AOL UK4
  10. Baidu4