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Cisco Investments
Corporate venture · Founded 1993 · Active in 2026
Cisco Investments is a corporate venture based in USA, founded in 1993. The page below shows 37 Power Law outcomes from Cisco Investments's portfolio — 32 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Cybersecurity · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · China · Taiwan. Cisco ranks #492 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Cisco’s biggest exits.
Cisco portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Cisco’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Cisco’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 3 companies where Cisco is a named shareholder, worth about $150M in estimated equity value.
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 cap tables on Dealroom →
The 37 Cisco Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA30
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China1
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Taiwan1
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India1
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Israel1
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Canada1
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Russia1
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Switzerland1
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AI10
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Cybersecurity10
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Other B2B Software6
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Other5
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Fintech4
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Marketing2
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Series B+31
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Series A3
Cisco's 37 Power Law outcomes.
How does Cisco stack up?
Cisco in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Cisco's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
107 founders across the 37 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Cisco.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Cisco Investments
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cisco on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Cisco Investments
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Cisco — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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