Cisco Investments backs startups pushing the boundaries of innovation in areas that matter to our customers. Each month, we spotlight how our portfolio companies are advancing the technologies shaping tomorrow’s enterprise.
New Investments
Fleak provides AI-native, universal data interpretation infrastructure that transforms and normalizes enterprise machine data in real time. Their platform eliminates data silos and operational overhead, enabling organizations to deliver high-quality, AI-ready data across security, analytics, and compliance workflows. Learn more about our investment in Fleak in our blog, “Universal Translator for AI and Security Data.”
LangChain is enabling teams to design, deploy, and continuously improve reliable AI agents at scale. With new investments and expanded capabilities, LangChain empowers developers and enterprises to harness the full potential of agent-based AI. Learn more in their announcement.
Artificial Intelligence
Cohere launched its Partner Program to accelerate enterprise AI adoption through collaboration with leading cloud, consulting, and technology partners. The program offers access to Cohere’s enterprise-grade models, co-innovation opportunities, and joint go-to-market support.
Cloud and Data Center
Celonis outlined how process intelligence turns AI and automation into a powerful engine for business transformation. By combining contextual process data with AI-driven automation, Celonis helps enterprises enhance visibility, reduce inefficiencies, and drive smarter, end-to-end process management.
Dremio explained how its multi-layer caching system reduces latency and computational costs across the analytics workflow. Through query plan, results, and columnar cloud caching, it accelerates performance, lowers I/O expenses, and brings frequently accessed data closer to compute for faster, more efficient analysis.
Collaboration
Theta Lake announced Webex Compliance Hub, a new Cisco product offering with industry-leading capabilities to help meet the compliance, security, and governance needs of digital and AI communications across the enterprise. Powered by Theta Lake, this unified and built-in Cisco solution will provide comprehensive integrated compliance and risk management capability for the Webex Suite, including for the Cisco AI Assistant for Webex.
Networking
Aviz Networks was recognized on the Inc. 5000 2025 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, highlighting the team’s commitment to redefining networking for the AI era. The honor coincides with their latest milestone: expanding Aviz ONES™ orchestration and GPU-Aware Multi-Tenancy to deliver the orchestration, observability, and lifecycle automation needed to turn Spectrum-X Ethernet into a truly enterprise-ready multi-tenant AI fabric.
Photonics
Xscape Photonics was featured by Columbia Engineering for its role in developing a chip-based frequency comb that delivers dozens of light channels from a single laser source. Building on research from the Lipson Lab, the breakthrough advances silicon photonics to enable faster, more energy-efficient data transfer for AI and data center applications.
Quantum
Aliro announced support for more than 50 quantum devices—including next-generation photon detectors, switches, and sources—advancing the scalability of the quantum internet and secure communications. The milestone coincided with Boeing joining its customer base and a $4M Stony Brook University grant to build a 10-node quantum network powered by Aliro software.
Security
Deepwatch spotlighted the rising threat of repository poisoning, outlining eight behavioral patterns that reveal attacks hidden in trusted software supply chains. From typosquatting and version anomalies to automated propagation and credential harvesting, it emphasized how behavioral detection can expose these evolving threats across developer ecosystems.
Query introduced its Security Data Pipelines, automating how security data moves across sources and destinations. Built on a micro-batching architecture and aligned with the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), it streamlines ETL workflows and accelerates federated search and analytics across cloud environments.
Upstream addressed the growing wave of large-scale cyberattacks targeting the connected-vehicle ecosystem, from dealerships to OEMs. Highlighting the “billion-dollar automotive cyber club,” it underscored a multi-perimeter defense model that correlates data across cloud, vehicle, and supply-chain layers, enabling unified threat visibility and stronger resilience for global mobility stakeholders.
Sustainability
DEScycle secured a €5M EU Horizon grant to lead the RETURN project, a European consortium focused on transforming electronic waste into a geo-secure, low-carbon supply of critical raw materials. The initiative showcases how DEScycle’s breakthrough chemistry and digital tools advance the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act and broader circular economy objectives.