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260Portfolio Exits
70Funds
7Partners & Customers
1About Cisco Investments
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 to successful IPOs or acquisitions.
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Backers included ServiceNow and Cisco Investments, and existing investors including Battery Ventures and CRV. The company intends to use the funds to continue building its product, servicing customers and educating the community about the power of SLOs. Led by CEO Marcin Kurc, Nobl9 is a service level observability platform that adds business context to software delivery. Global Enterprises in the financial services, ecommerce, and SaaS industries such as Flexera, Outsystems, Procore, Ticketmaster and Trusted Shops use it to accelerate engineering, and set clear software reliability goals. Nobl9 enriches data from popular enterprise observability systems and fits into developer workflows using popular DevOps and collaboration tools. Nobl9 Free Edition is a free tier of its Service Level Objective (SLO) Platform. The hosted SaaS solution allows the creation of SLOs using metrics and observability data from 24+ popular tools, including Lightstep from ServiceNow, Cisco AppDynamics, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Google Cloud Monitoring, Amazon Cloud Watch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Splunk, and many more.
Cisco Investments Investments
260 Investments
Cisco Investments has made 260 investments. Their latest investment was in Nobl9 as part of their Series B - II on December 12, 2022.
Cisco Investments Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12/20/2022 | Series B - II | Nobl9 | $15.8M | Yes | 2 | |
12/2/2022 | Series B | Voiceitt | $4.7M | Yes | 6 | |
11/8/2022 | Unattributed VC | Elevate Security | Yes | 1 | ||
10/6/2022 | Series A | |||||
8/23/2022 | Series B |
Date | 12/20/2022 | 12/2/2022 | 11/8/2022 | 10/6/2022 | 8/23/2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Series B - II | Series B | Unattributed VC | Series A | Series B |
Company | Nobl9 | Voiceitt | Elevate Security | ||
Amount | $15.8M | $4.7M | |||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Cisco Investments Portfolio Exits
70 Portfolio Exits
Cisco Investments has 70 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was HelpShift on December 05, 2022.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12/5/2022 | Acquired | 6 | |||
11/17/2022 | Acquired | 25 | |||
8/3/2022 | Acquired | 1 | |||
Date | 12/5/2022 | 11/17/2022 | 8/3/2022 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Exit | Acquired | Acquired | Acquired | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 6 | 25 | 1 |
Cisco Investments Fund History
7 Fund Histories
Cisco Investments has 7 funds, including Cisco India Startups Fund.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6/28/2017 | Cisco India Startups Fund | $70M | 1 | ||
7/9/2015 | Cisco Internet of Everything UK Fund | ||||
6/23/2014 | Cisco India Innovation Theme | ||||
4/30/2014 | Cisco Internet of Things Fund | ||||
4/30/2014 | Cisco Investments Early Stage Venture Fund |
Closing Date | 6/28/2017 | 7/9/2015 | 6/23/2014 | 4/30/2014 | 4/30/2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fund | Cisco India Startups Fund | Cisco Internet of Everything UK Fund | Cisco India Innovation Theme | Cisco Internet of Things Fund | Cisco Investments Early Stage Venture Fund |
Fund Type | |||||
Status | |||||
Amount | $70M | ||||
Sources | 1 |
Cisco Investments Partners & Customers
1 Partners and customers
Cisco Investments has 1 strategic partners and customers. Cisco Investments recently partnered with Pi Labs on August 8, 2016.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8/5/2016 | Partner | United Kingdom | Startup Weekly: New Cisco collaboration, PI Labs partnership & more Startupbootcamp has announced a global partnership with Cisco Investments , which will see the multinational tech corporation expand its work across all of the accelerators ' 14 locations and more than 300 portfolio companies . | 1 |
Date | 8/5/2016 |
|---|---|
Type | Partner |
Business Partner | |
Country | United Kingdom |
News Snippet | Startup Weekly: New Cisco collaboration, PI Labs partnership & more Startupbootcamp has announced a global partnership with Cisco Investments , which will see the multinational tech corporation expand its work across all of the accelerators ' 14 locations and more than 300 portfolio companies . |
Sources | 1 |
Cisco Investments Team
2 Team Members
Cisco Investments has 2 team members, including current Senior Vice President, Hilton Romanski.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Hilton Romanski | Senior Vice President | Current | |
Name | Hilton Romanski | |
|---|---|---|
Work History | ||
Title | Senior Vice President | |
Status | Current |
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