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Cisco Investments

300 East Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA, 95134, United States

Overview

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. They currently have an active portfolio of $2B with over 80 direct investments around the world, and they also hold Limited Partner positions in over 35 funds globally.

Total investments
141
Lead investments
14
Investments · 12mo
7
Active investors
13

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Eliyan

    Participated · Series C · Jul 2026

    Eliyan develops advanced connectivity technologies including silicon-proven NuLink™ PHYs and NuGear™ chiplet families that target I/O, memory-expansion and power-efficiency challenges in modern compute infrastructure. The company is expanding into optical interconnect to complement its existing electrical interconnect portfolio and to support heterogeneous, co-packaged, and bandwidth-intensive compute fabrics. Eliyan positions its platform to span intra-package electrical interconnects through system-level optical fabrics for scale-up and scale-in AI networks. The company is led by CEO and Co-Founder Ramin Farjadrad and is based in Santa Clara, California. Financially, Eliyan raised $145 million in a Series C at a $1 billion valuation. It plans to use the new capital to accelerate product and interconnect development, broaden ecosystem partnerships, and scale manufacturing.

  • Atom Computing

    Participated · Series C · Jun 2026

    Atom Computing designs and builds large-scale quantum computers using highly scalable arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms. The company reports systems exceeding 1,200 qubits and is advancing capabilities toward fault‑tolerant, logical qubit operations. It offers on‑premises deployments for government, enterprise and research customers and is expanding global deployments. Atom Computing plans to invest in software, control systems and error correction as part of its technical roadmap. The company is led and founded by CEO Dr. Ben Bloom. Following its Series C, Atom Computing intends to grow its engineering, research and go‑to‑market teams.

  • ODC

    Led · Series A · Mar 2026

    Oran Development Company builds AI-Native Radio Access Network (AI‑RAN) technology and is the architect of the Odyssey RAN software platform. By integrating AI sensing and inference into the RAN, the company aims to enable telecommunications providers to generate new revenue streams and deliver mission‑critical capabilities across industrial, commercial and public sectors. The company is headquartered in New York City. It recently raised $45M in Series A financing from a group of strategic backers. Previous investors include Phoenix Venture Partners and Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. The company plans to use the proceeds to expand operations and continue development of its platform.

  • Aliro Technologies

    Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

    Aliro Technologies is commercializing what it calls the world’s first vendor-agnostic, software-driven entanglement platform that enforces network trust through the laws of quantum physics rather than computational assumptions. The platform runs on existing fiber-optic infrastructure, turning conventional routers and switches into deterministic, physics-enforced security transport layers and immediately detecting eavesdroppers. Aliro also offers a physics-accurate entanglement network simulator—its “digital twin”—that lets customers model and validate quantum-secure networks before deployment. Recent technical milestones include interoperability with more than 50 entanglement and classical networking devices. Target customers span enterprises, banks, defense organizations, telcos and cloud providers, and the company cites a total addressable market it estimates at $60 billion. New funding will be used to accelerate deployments and expand ecosystem partnerships as the firm aims to redefine global security infrastructure.

  • Gruve.ai

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

    Gruve.ai operates an Inference Infrastructure Fabric that pairs modular, high-density rack-scale pods with a low-latency edge network to run production-grade AI inference. The Redwood City company claims to have unlocked more than 500 MW of distributed inference capacity across the United States and is bringing 30 MW online immediately at four domestic sites. Its full-stack offering includes 24×7 AI-powered security operations, network services, and cluster management, targeting neocloud providers, enterprises running real-time agents, and AI-native startups moving from prototype to production. Gruve.ai argues that most current inference workloads sit on systems optimized for training, creating poor unit economics that its fabric can remedy. The firm intends to bypass multi-year data-center build cycles by quickly deploying capacity in power-available locations and plans near-term geographic expansion into Japan and Western Europe. Since inception it has raised a total of $87.5 million, including the recently announced $50 million follow-on Series A, to scale deployments, broaden strategic partnerships, and grow its agentic services layer.

Team

  • Leonard Bosack

    Founder

  • Sandy Lerner

    Founder

  • Tomáš Trungel

    Software Engineer

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  • Aleem Rizvon

    Vice President

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