# Cisco Investments (slim)

> Cisco Investments's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Anthropic, Arcade.dev, Anthropic, PBC, Thinking Machines Lab and 2 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco-investments/index.md (~1,300 tokens) · this version ~1,180 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco-investments/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco-investments/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Corporate investor.

Website: https://www.ciscoinvestments.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Anthropic**, Series E, March 2025
  - [Claude API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anthropic-api.md), graded BB, 77.3/100
  - [Claude Agent SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-agent-sdk.md), graded BB, 70.1/100
  - [Claude Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-code.md), graded C, 59.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-e-at-usd61-5b-post-money-valuation
- **Arcade.dev**, Series A extension, September 2026
  - [Arcade.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcade.md), graded B, 66.9/100
  - Source: https://www.arcade.dev/blog/cisco-investments-backs-arcade/
- **Anthropic, PBC**, Series E, March 2025
  - [Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.md), graded F, 17.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-e-at-usd61-5b-post-money-valuation
- **Thinking Machines Lab**, Seed, July 2025, through Cisco
  - [Inkling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling.md), graded B, 64.2/100
  - [Inkling-Small](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.md), graded B, 66.5/100
  - [Tinker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker.md), graded D, 51.2/100
  - Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-is-worth-12b-in-seed-round/
- **LangChain**, Series B, October 2025
  - [LangGraph](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langgraph.md), graded BB, 70.8/100
  - [LangMem](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langmem.md), graded D, 48.3/100
  - [LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langsmith.md), graded BB, 71.3/100
  - Source: https://www.langchain.com/blog/series-b
- **PubNub Inc.**, through Cisco
  - [PubNub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pubnub.md), graded B, 68.3/100
  - Source: https://www.pubnub.com/company/

## Where they invest

- Agent frameworks & SDKs, 2
- Open-weight models, 2
- Model APIs & inference, 1
- Agent harnesses, 1
- Agent auth & delegated access, 1
- Personal assistants, 1
- Fine-tuning, 1
- Agent memory, 1
- Agent observability & evals, 1
- Event delivery & webhooks, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Dario Amodei](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dario-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Daniela Amodei](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/daniela-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Tom Brown](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tom-brown/), Anthropic
- [Jack Clark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jack-clark/), Anthropic
- [Jared Kaplan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jared-kaplan/), Anthropic
- [Sam McCandlish](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-mccandlish/), Anthropic
- [Chris Olah](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-olah/), Anthropic
- [Alex Salazar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-salazar/), Arcade.dev
- [Sam Partee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-partee/), Arcade.dev
- [Karan Ahuja](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/karan-ahuja/), Anthropic, PBC
- [Mira Murati](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mira-murati/), Thinking Machines Lab
- [John Schulman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-schulman-2/), Thinking Machines Lab
- [Harrison Chase](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/harrison-chase/), LangChain
- [Ankush Gola](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ankush-gola/), LangChain
- [Todd Greene](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/todd-greene/), PubNub Inc.
- [Stephen Blum](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/stephen-blum/), PubNub Inc.

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Cisco Investments invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Anthropic, Arcade.dev, Anthropic, PBC, Thinking Machines Lab, LangChain and PubNub Inc.

### How are Cisco Investments's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Claude API (BB, 77.3), Claude Agent SDK (BB, 70.1), Claude Code (C, 59.9), Arcade.dev (B, 66.9), Claude Duet (F, 17.9), Inkling (B, 64.2), Inkling-Small (B, 66.5), Tinker (D, 51.2), LangGraph (BB, 70.8), LangMem (D, 48.3), LangSmith API + MCP (BB, 71.3) and PubNub (B, 68.3).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.