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Cisco portfolio: 4 rounds in AI and data

Rounds where Cisco led or took part, newest first. Led: 0.

1. Groq raises $750M Growth, Sep 17, 2025. AI infrastructure. Led by Disruptive. Groq designs LPU inference chips and runs the GroqCloud service for fast AI model inference.
2. Thinking Machines Lab raises $2B Seed, Jul 15, 2025. AI models. Led by Andreessen Horowitz. AI research lab building customizable frontier models and tools for researchers.
3. Cohere raises $500M, Jul 22, 2024. AI models. Builds large language models and AI tools for enterprise and sovereign deployments.
4. Mistral AI raises $640M Series B, Jun 11, 2024. AI models. Led by General Catalyst. Builds open-weight and commercial large language models for enterprises and governments.