The NCAA Basketball Tournament showcases some of the best young athletes in the world. Part of the thrill is having a glimpse into the future. Who will be the next Michael Jordan? The next Stephen Curry? Cisco Investments is on a similar mission - by investing in game-changing startups that are shaping the future of technology.
In the spirit of March Madness, we’re excited to introduce our very own Sweet 16 at this year’s Cisco Live in San Diego, June 9th - 13th. The Cisco Investments Sweet 16 will showcase our portfolio companies in Security, IoT, Data Center, Collaboration, Data and Analytics, and Infrastructure.
Here are our brackets!
Security
BehavioSec is a behavioral biometrics company providing continuous authentication for end users based on their interactions with web and mobile apps.
Learn more about why we’re excited about BehavioSec
Exabeam provides security intelligence and management solutions to help organizations of any size protect their most valuable information.
The Panaseer Platform empowers CISOs with the insight needed to continuously monitor security controls and reduce cyber security risk.
Read Panaseer’s take on 2019 Cisco Live Barcelona
ThreatQuotient™ delivers an open and extensible threat intelligence platform (TIP) to provide defenders the context, customization and collaboration needed for increased security effectiveness and efficient threat operations and management.
Data Center
Cohesity delivers web-scale simplicity and eliminates mass data fragmentation by consolidating secondary workloads and silos onto a single platform. All Secondary Data and Apps. Simplified.
Trusted by Global 1000 companies, government agencies, and leading service providers, CTERA is the leader in providing secure enterprise file services from Edge to Cloud.
See how Ctera is powering next-gen networks
Stratoscale delivers modernized private cloud with IaaS, PaaS and CaaS and a suite of open-source platforms for developers to accelerate application delivery.
How Big Data Translates to Measurable Business Value for Retailers
IoT
Actility provides LoRaWAN IoT connectivity platforms for the Industrial Internet of things.
Collaboration
Dynamic Signal offers a mobile-first company communications platform that provides companies with a way to keep their employees more informed.
Read how Dynamic Signal is changing employee communication
Whatfix is a leading digital adoption platform that helps companies deliver modern and easy onboarding, effective training and self-service support to users through contextual content displayed at the time of need.
Why we invested in Whatfix
Involvio empowers Higher-Ed to drive student engagement from orientation to graduation, resulting in higher retention rates.
Data and Analytics
DataRobot offers an automated machine learning platform that empowers users of all skill levels to develop and deploy machine learning and AI faster.
Why we invested in DataRobot
Dremio delivers a Data-as-a-Service Platform - providing a quantum leap in performance, based on four areas of innovation: Apache Arrow Execution, Data Reflections, Native Push-Downs, and Vertically Integrated Query Engine.
AIOPs
Moogsoft AIOps is the pioneering AI platform for IT operations. Reduce the noise, detect incidents earlier and fix problems faster with Moogsoft AIOps.
Read What Network Ops Can Learn From IT Ops
See you in San Diego at Cisco Live
Like March Madness, without the win-or-go-home stakes, the Cisco Investments Sweet 16 offer our customers and partners the world’s most promising solutions for today’s biggest challenges in Security, IoT, Data Center, and Collaboration. We invite you to meet the Sweet 16 by visiting us at the Cisco Investments Village during Cisco Live in San Diego or by setting up a one-on-one meeting.