Noah Yago
Vice President
Noah leads acquisitions and investments across emerging technologies, including AI. He also oversees M&A and investment activities for EMEA and for Israel. Noah was a key member of the team that led Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk, and he helped define the strategy and the launch of Cisco's $1B AI Fund.
He has over two decades of experience building companies as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and board member and has led investments in HashiCorp, DataRobot, Dremio, Lightning.AI, AlphaSense, D2iQ (Mesosphere), Cyber-Ark, Candex and many others.
He joined Cisco Investments in 2017 from Triangle Peak Partners. He was a venture capitalist at Israel-based JVP, and began his investment career at NY-based merchant bank Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
Noah earned his MBA from Stanford and his BA from Tufts, where he majored in Computer Science and in German Language & Literature.