Builds purpose-built hardware and software to make AI inference cheaper and energy-efficient
Cisco Investments
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Cisco Investments is Cisco’s corporate investment unit, backing technology businesses and supporting commercial partnerships.
Investment approach
The team works with portfolio companies alongside Cisco’s domain businesses and corporate-development organization. Its stated support includes customer access, sales and marketing relationships and portfolio-development expertise across a global technology network.
Activity recorded by RoundOS
RoundOS records include Positron AI’s inference hardware and software, Starcloud’s orbital data centres and Atom Computing’s neutral-atom quantum systems. WideField Security adds a recorded example in AI-agent identity and security.
These examples describe financings recorded in RoundOS, rather than the investor’s complete portfolio.
- Rounds participated in
- 5
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 0 4 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 5 First participation on record · 0 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $1.2B 4 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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5 in this selectionBuilds orbital data centers running AI GPU compute in space
Develops large-scale neutral-atom quantum computers for fault-tolerant commercial and government applications
Provides visibility and real-time detection for AI agent identity and security risks
Aliro develops software for designing, controlling and operating quantum-entanglement networks across hardware from different vendors.