Duo is designed to be easy and flexible, ensuring robust protection for startups of all sizes. From multi-factor authentication to seamless access controls, DUO has your back.
At
Cisco
for
Startups,
innovation
and
collaboration
form
the
DNA
of
our
mission
to
touch
the
lives
of
people
with
technology.
We
strive
to
build
a
world
by
positively
transforming
societies,
economies,
and
outcomes
by
harnessing
technology
and
the
latest
innovations.
This
serves
as
a
catalyst
for
a
sell-to,
sell-through,
and
sell-with
approach
to
accelerate
the
startup
growth
trajectory.
The numbers here represent the tangible outcomes accomplished across industry verticals.
The numbers here represent the tangible outcomes accomplished across industry verticals.
7
Years
100+
Investor connects
70
Startups
100+
Mentors
30+
Pilots
30+
Startups onboarded as Cisco solution partners
30K+
Social media followers
3K+
Jobs created
$300M
Total follow on funding by Cisco accelerated startups
Accelerate your digital transformation with Cisco’s technologies
Leverage the capabilities of our cutting-edge tech stack to propel your startup to new heights. Explore the sphere of co-innovation and co-creation, integrating seamlessly with Cisco technology for a pioneering journey towards success in the landscape of the digital era.
Security Service Edge ensures your startup is shielded from every angle – giving you comprehensive security without compromise.
Meraki brings you smart, cloud-managed IT solutions that make complexity a thing of the past. From seamless networking to intuitive management, Meraki is your key to simplicity in the digital age.
Webex cPaaS Solutions redefine customer interactions. From smarter communication APIs to rich collaboration tools, we empower startups to create experiences that leave a lasting impression.
From application performance monitoring to real-time insights, FSO is the key to optimizing every facet of your digital presence. It offers benefits that can help improve IT operations and enhance overall business performance.
ThousandEyes catalyzes SMB and DNE teams, providing proactive network infrastructure monitoring that identifies bottlenecks, latency issues, and bandwidth constraints to prevent disruptions, and maintain productivity.
With AppDynamics, businesses benefit from an advanced (APM) suite that spans on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, provides real-time insights, identifies bottlenecks, enhances agility, and lowers costs by optimizing IT operations.
Cisco Hybrid Cloud Solutions offer compatibility with any cloud infrastructure, eliminating lock-in while providing infrastructure automation flexibility to various environments and consumption models to ensure high-performance application.
With SD-WAN, businesses can improve performance and enable robust security. It’s a cloud-scale, software-driven architecture that routes traffic around problems and adapts to changing conditions without direct IT intervention.
Accelerate your digital transformation with Cisco’s technologies
Leverage the capabilities of our cutting-edge tech stack to propel your startup to new heights. Explore the sphere of co-innovation and co-creation, integrating seamlessly with Cisco technology for a pioneering journey towards success in the landscape of the digital era.
Duo is designed to be easy and flexible, ensuring robust protection for startups of all sizes. From multi-factor authentication to seamless access controls, DUO has your back.
Security Service Edge ensures your startup is shielded from every angle – giving you comprehensive security without compromise.
Meraki brings you smart, cloud-managed IT solutions that make complexity a thing of the past. From seamless networking to intuitive management, Meraki is your key to simplicity in the digital age.
Webex cPaaS Solutions redefine customer interactions. From smarter communication APIs to rich collaboration tools, we empower startups to create experiences that leave a lasting impression.
From application performance monitoring to real-time insights, FSO is the key to optimizing every facet of your digital presence. It offers benefits that can help improve IT operations and enhance overall business performance.
ThousandEyes catalyzes SMB and DNE teams, providing proactive network infrastructure monitoring that identifies bottlenecks, latency issues, and bandwidth constraints to prevent disruptions, and maintain productivity.
With AppDynamics, businesses benefit from an advanced (APM) suite that spans on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, provides real-time insights, identifies bottlenecks, enhances agility, and lowers costs by optimizing IT operations.
Cisco Hybrid Cloud Solutions offer compatibility with any cloud infrastructure, eliminating lock-in while providing infrastructure automation flexibility to various environments and consumption models to ensure high-performance application.
With SD-WAN, businesses can improve performance and enable robust security. It’s a cloud-scale, software-driven architecture that routes traffic around problems and adapts to changing conditions without direct IT intervention.
A vision to pave the way for India's digital transformation
"As technology becomes the greatest enabler in this endeavor, startups are emerging at the forefront of the country’s digital transformation, creating jobs and tremendous value across every sector."
Daisy Chittilapilly, President, Cisco IndiaOur Startup Portfolio
One of the most comprehensive telehealth platforms in the world - deployed in Asia, Europe, and South America in partnership with Cisco.
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Brings ICU care to tier II and III cities, combining telemedicine and digital workflow management for virtual intensivist support, enabling remote ICU monitoring at 8 locations.
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Access to region-wise crop data and better crop yields for farmers' joint go-to-market deployment in 2 state government projects.
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Developed an intelligent Data Acquisition Console to securely fetch, log, and transmit vessel machinery data to the cloud using Cisco's IoT portfolio for remote monitoring and performance.
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Optimizing aircraft movements, capacity augmentation and ground operations control centre joint pilot at BIAL.
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"All these years we engaged with Cisco, we have been helped immensely by the excellent Cisco for Startups team in getting access to technology, right mentorship, go-to-market and more."
"Cisco for Startups helped us to identify and connect the right set of stakeholders and sponsors and now expanding to the international markets."
"We work as a combined unit with the highly specialized Cloudphysician team to provide our patients tech-enabled treatment that is at par with leading hospitals of India. The ICU is no longer restricted to just one or two PPE-wearing doctors."
"Cisco for Startups is clearly one of the best in the world. Having been part of multiple accelerators from across the world, I can say that nothing comes close to this program. The structure, the partners, participation by Cisco leadership and possibilities of working on global use cases is a unique combination."
"It was great to be part of Cisco as it helped us expand our technology suite through mentoring and guidance from experts at Cisco. Also, it helped us cement a good relationship with the digital transformation team from joint go-to-market purposes."
"We were excited to be part of Cisco’s India Technopreneurship Series - a program connecting ideas, mentors, technologies, and a thriving community. Being in the niche RTLS space, the recognition helped us by validating our solution, giving us credibility and opening many doors."
"Cisco for Startups was a saviour and accelerated our startup journey by at least 1 year."
"Cisco for Startups helped us quickly navigate through the global matrix structure of Cisco. It truly gave us a glimpse of how rapidly we could scale the go-to-market globally."
"Cisco helped us gain a tremendous understanding of the contact center space and the joint go-to-market strategy helped us win customers. This played a major role in our growth story."
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