EXPLORE Innovation

Connect with startups and gain industry insights

 

 

 

 

Cisco Investments is proud to present EXPLORE, a program designed exclusively for technology leaders. Join us for an insightful program where you can connect with a curated selection of innovative companies from our investment portfolio.

Cisco Investments, the venture capital arm of Cisco, is focused on investing in the next generation of enterprise technology across a variety of domains, including security, collaboration, artificial intelligence, cloud, and more.

This event offers a unique opportunity for technology leaders to gain valuable industry insights. Discover and connect with top startups, explore their solutions, and learn how they help solve new business challenges.

Join us for EXPLORE and set up your personal briefings today!

EXPLORE OUR PORTFOLIO

We have over thirty startups that IT Leaders can meet with. Select between one to three startups to meet virtually. Please note that each startup meeting is 30 minutes.
After you select the startups you would like to meet, click "Select Timeslot" to select a date and time for your personalized briefing.
Acqueon
Contact Center
Conversational Engagement

#1 Proactive engagement solution and a strong Cisco Contact Center partner, Acqueon's AI-driven conversational engagement software enables sales, marketing and service organizations to engage in meaningful, emotionally connected, open dialogs with customers that yield much greater results. Acqueon’s multichannel campaign orchestration and analytics solutions empower forward-thinking enterprises to shift from being reactive to becoming proactive in how they engage with customers.

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aisera
Collaboration
Conversational AI

Aisera’s broad set of pre-built connectors help integrate Contact Center workflows into critical back-office applications, such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday, etc. It also p​rovides a centralized hub that allows us to scale automation horizontally to other critical systems and vendors outside of service management. Aisera’s conversational engine is capable of triggering actions and self-service resolution before reaching an agent.

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appomni
Security
Identity

AppOmni Provides visibility, continuous monitoring, and remediation within SaaS environments. Key features include RBAC, customer privacy control, custom policy scanning, 3rd party app management, user app inventory, detailed analysis of unanticipated risks, and continuous monitoring.

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Binalyze
Security
Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Binalyze AIR provides a multi-tenant Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) platform for for Enterprises and MSSPs to enable investigations to be concluded in under 4 hours.

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Cogniac
Cloud
Video Analysis

Cogniac’s industry leading platform makes Cisco Meraki Smart Cameras even smarter. By delivering custom computer vision at scale organizations are able to realize business outcomes that drive real world value.

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Cloud
Disaster Recovery

Cohesity provides the only hyper converged platform designed to eliminate secondary storage silos.  They consolidate all secondary data and associated management functions on one unified solution – including backups, files, objects, test/dev copies, and analytics.​

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Security
Security & Virtualization for ARM

Corellium helps developer and security teams build, test, and secure mobile and IoT apps, firmware, and hardware through the power of virtualization.

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Observability & DevOps
Machine Learning

DataRobot offers an automated machine learning platform that empowers users of all skill levels to develop and deploy machine learning and AI faster. Incorporating a library of hundreds of the most powerful open source machine learning algorithms, the DataRobot platform encapsulates every best practice, every safeguard, and every run-time environment to automate data science while maximizing transparency, accuracy, and collaboration, delivering AI applications at scale.

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Edge Delta
Observability & DevOps
Observability

Edge Delta takes a modern approach to observability by giving enterprises the ability to use distributed stream processing and federated machine learning capabilities for intelligent, dynamic, and automated data processing at the edge.

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Security
User Risk / Zero Trust

Elevate Security solves the age-old problem of worker risk. Security teams apply Elevate’s risk scoring, risk-aware interventions, to predict, personalize controls, and help prevent the next incident before it happens.

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Expel
Security
MSSP

Expel is a managed detection and response (MDR) provider whose vision is to make great security as accessible as the internet. The company offers 24x7 security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.

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Security
Cloud Detection and Response

Gem Security is a rapidly growing Cloud Detection and Response platform provider that bridges the gap between security operations and cloud complexity.

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Security
Cloud-Native Open XDR platform

The Hunters SOC platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents - at a predictable cost. Through built-in detection engineering, data correlation, and automatic investigation, Hunters mitigates threats faster and more reliably than SIEMs, reducing customers' overall security risk.

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Cloud
Disaster Recovery

HYCU is a cloud native data protection platform that integrates with public cloud and on-premise services to provide a single management plane for backup and disaster recovery. HYCU Protégé consolidates multi-cloud backup and recovery management with purpose-built application-level support. No hardware required, deploys as a virtual appliance on-prem or through app store on cloud and is storage agnostic.

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island
Security
Enterprise Browser

Island, is an Enterprise Browser   provides organizations with complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile while providing the same smooth Chromium-based browser experience users expect.

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Security
Cloud Incident Response

Mitiga modernizes Cloud and SaaS incident response for today’s transforming enterprises with solutions that dramatically accelerate breach detection and response. Mitiga’s proactive approach significantly reduces the time required to discover, investigate, and respond to cyberattacks. This minimizes the impact of cloud breaches and strengthens cyber resilience against future incidents.

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Observability & DevOps
Observability

Businesses need happy customers in order to survive, and infrastructure teams need to meet reliability goals efficiently. Large cloud-native companies pioneered the service level objective (SLO) method to create a scalable relationship between operational staff and software services while maintaining customer loyalty and cost controls. Nobl9 brings a simplified variation on the SLO methodology to every software team.

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Parsable
Collaboration
Frontline Workers

Parsable’s technology enables enterprises to digitize standard operating procedures for frontline workers with an easy to use, easy to deploy, mobile centric connected worker platform to digitally organize work and collaborate in real-time.

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Security
SaaS-based Simulated Cyber Skills & Cyber Range Platform

Developer of a learning platform offering cybersecurity training and exercises, featuring networks and servers in a cloud-based simulator that conducts cyber-attacks and other threats in a sandbox environment.

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Security
AI Risk Management and Mitigation

Robust Intelligence focuses on safeguarding enterprises from AI-related risks by ensuring end-to-end AI integrity. Through continuous validation of models and data across the AI lifecycle, RI provide protection against security, ethical, and operational concerns.

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Security
Digital Rights Protection / Collaboration Security

End-to-end collaboration security platform designed to manage the full lifecycle of digital risk protection. The company's platform detects, analyzes, defends and prevents cybersecurity attacks while automating governance and compliance and delivers massive-scale threat analytics that leverages machine learning to notify clients, enabling clients to take action against risks and threats across digital channels in real-time.

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Observability & DevOps
DevOps

SeaLights is a Software Quality Intelligence Platform that offers a comprehensive solution to Dev & QA teams. By enabling teams to execute only the relevant tests related to code changes, SeaLights helps to significantly reduce testing cycle time and costs, all while maintaining the highest level of quality. With SeaLights, teams can easily identify and block untested code changes before they reach production, ensuring that the final product is always of the highest quality.

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SCW WORDS
Security
DevSecOps Training

Secure Code Warrior is an innovative web-based corporate education and assessment platform where software developers use hands-on learning to build secure-coding skills.

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securiti
Security
Multi-cloud Data controls Platform

Securiti is a leader in Unified Data Controls. Its DataControls Cloud™ enables a centralized DataCommand Center™ for visibility, controls and orchestrations for data across public clouds, data clouds, private cloud and SaaS. It unifies controls for data security, privacy, governance and compliance in one place. Large global enterprises rely on its DataControls Cloud to meet all obligations around data in a unified way. Securiti was named Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Security, “Most Innovative Startup” at RSA, winner of “IAPP Privacy Innovation Award,” and leader in several analyst rankings.

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Security
Access Management/Authorization Platform

SGNL's continuous access management platform provides zero standing access, protecting access to sensitive data and guarding against potential security compromises.

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Security
Cloud-native authorization platform

Developer of an open policy agent and cloud-native authorization platform designed to eliminate operational, security and compliance risk. The company's platform helps to define, enforce and monitor authorization policy across their cloud-native applications, as well as the infrastructure they run on, enabling developers, DevOps and security teams to mitigate risks, reduce human error and accelerate application development.

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Switchboard
Collaboration
Hybrid Work

Switchboard is a visual collaboration platform that empowers teams to build faster with fewer meetings. Switchboard acts as a shared operating system that brings people, applications, and conversations together so teams can do more work asynchronously. Moving work to Switchboard results in better alignment and more time for focused work.

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thetalake
Collaboration
Communications Compliance

Theta Lake provides AI-based risk and compliance management for video, audio, chat and other modern digital communications. It powers insights and automation results in a directed workflow with increased consistency and efficiency. It also adds scale to security and compliance review process, driving down cost of data protection and compliance.

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Security
Open Source Software Security Management

Tidelift makes open source work better—for everyone. Through the Tidelift Subscription and in direct partnership with maintainers, Tidelift is a single source for proactively managed open source components and professional assurances around those components.

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Uniphore
Contact Center
Conversational AI

Uniphore specializes in AI & Automation technologies that vastly improve customer interactions thru real-time personalized customer experiences driving increased workforce productivity while driving down operational costs. Uniphore offerings include unique integrations to Cisco's Contact Center portfolio (UCCE/PCCE) through Uniphore's U-Assist solutions leveraging AI and Natural Language Processing to reduce agent handle time and after call work.

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Collaboration
Assistive Technology

Voiceitt has built speech recognition for non-standard speech. Its API can be integrated with mainstream hardware and software products to enable all consumers, including people with speech disabilities and aging adults, to access and enjoy these products - leveraging the power of voice to increase connection, independence, and quality of life.

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Customer Experience
Digital Adoption

Whatfix empowers anyone, anywhere to have scalable success with technology they use everyday, achieving greater knowledge, expanding capability, and unlocking productivity for themselves and their organizations through the use of Whatfix's Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) which integrates seamlessly with applications to enable users, providing in-context information and guidance to immediately increase individual capability and collectively amplify productivity. The organization has seven offices globally in the US, India, UK, Germany, Singapore, and Australia, and works with Fortune 500 companies around the world.

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