Change is the only constant in the technology and investment ecosystems. Macroeconomic shifts and geopolitical challenges have completely transformed how businesses, startups, and investors operate.
Each year, Cisco Investments issues our Year in Review report—a lookback on the acquisitions and investments we have made throughout the year and a place we share our insights in navigating an ever-changing landscape.
2024 Year in Review
Cisco Investments took significant steps this year, accelerating our investments in strategic areas, including AI, security, networking and sustainability, that will drive Cisco’s inorganic innovation moving forward.
✨ Below are some of our highlights from 2024 ✨
✔️ Launched a $1B Global AI fund to drive innovations in AI infrastructure and language models, focusing on scalable processing capabilities, modernizing data centers, enhancing data management, and ensuring robust data strategies
✔️ Completed 5 acquisitions and 21 investments in 2024, strategically expanding our AI ecosystem with startups that align with Cisco's vision and culture
✔️ Initiated our first sustainability investments aligned with Cisco's “Plan for Possible,” focusing on transitioning to clean energy, evolving towards a circular business model, and investing in resilient ecosystems
As we enter 2025, we’re keeping a keen eye on strategic investments that will help Cisco better advance, secure, and monitor AI workloads.
You can read our 2024 Year in Review:
2023 Year in Review
To call this past year ‘active’ would be an understatement. The Cisco Corporate Development and Cisco Investments team took all our learnings from the last several years and put them into practice, announcing nearly a dozen acquisitions, including Splunk for $28B.
As we look ahead to 2024 we are excited to learn more about the impact artificial intelligence will have on collaboration, cybersecurity, networking, and the modern enterprise, and make strategic investments that unlock its powerful capabilities for our customers.
You can read our 2023 Year in Review report here:
2022 Year in Review
We can all agree that 2022 was a year of learnings and opportunities to be more focused and deliberate (while at the same time agile) in our investing and M&A approaches.
Moving into 2023, we are excited to see how the enterprise technology and investment landscapes will evolve, how they will impact companies nationwide, and how Cisco Investments and Corporate Development will uncover new insights to power businesses of all sizes.
You can read our 2022 Year in Review report here:
2021 Year in Review
Looking back on 2021, we reflect on another year of extraordinary challenges as we continue to navigate the new normal. Despite the challenges, 2021 also represented a year of great resilience.
2021 was one of Cisco's most active years in acquisitions and investments in a virtual world. The Corporate Development and Cisco Investments organization is unique in that we combine M&A and venture investment into a single cohesive team that consistently leads with strategy and thought leadership.
You can read our 2021 Year in Review here: