Prasad Parthasarathi
Investor at Cisco Investments
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Global Head - Cybersecurity VC / M&A
2015 - Current
Lead Cisco's Corporate Development team responsible for sourcing, evaluating and executing venture investments and M&A in Cybersecurity Indicative M&A: - Robust Intelligence (AI Security) / ND - Deepfactor (Cloud Native Security) / ND - Isovalent (Cloud Native Security and Networking) / ND - Splunk (SIEM Platform) / $28B - pinACL (Firewall Policy Management) / ND - Oort (Identity Threat Detection and Response) / ND - Armorblox (Generative AI / LLMs for Cybersecurity) / ND - Valtix (Multi-Cloud Network Security) / ND - Kenna Security (Risk Based Vulnerability Management) / ND - Duo Security (Cloud Identity & Access / $2.35B) - Observable Networks (Public Cloud and Private Network Monitoring) / ND - CloudLock (Cloud Access Security Broker, CASB / $293M) - Lancope (Netflow & Security Analytics / $453M)
Cisco Investments is a corporate venture capital arm of Cisco that offers direct and fund of funds investments.
Investor
2025
Enterprise Deep Fake Detection / Protection
Investor
2025
Enterprise AI / Large Language Model (LLM) Platform.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that focuses on increasing the safety of large-scale AI systems.
Raised $13,740,377,627.00 from Amazon.
Investor
2025
Identity Security / Attack Path Mapping.
Investor
2024
AI powered 3rd Party Risk / Vendor Risk Management
Investor
2024
Federated Search for Security Data
Investor
2024
End-to-end Ransomware Readiness, Prevention, and Recovery platform
Halcyon is an anti ransomware and cyber resilience platform that eliminates the business impact of ransomware.
Raised $190,000,000.00 from ServiceNow Ventures, Harmony Group, SYN Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Corner Capital Management, Dropbox Ventures and Evolution Equity Partners.
Investor
2024
Modern / Cloud Privileged Access Management (PAM)
StrongDM is a platform that provides zero-trust access control to databases, servers, and applications.
Raised $110,050,000.00 from Capital One Ventures, Cisco Investments, True Ventures, OneVentures, Sequoia Capital, Anchor Capital GP, Singtel Innov8, Verdure Capital Management, Google Ventures and Frontline Ventures.
Investor
2024
Open Network Detection and Response (NDR)
Corelight is a cybersecurity company specializing in network traffic analysis (NTA) solutions.
Raised $309,200,000.00 from Cisco Investments, Accel and CrowdStrike Falcon Fund.
Investor
2024
Securing Firmware and Software Supply Chain
Binarly is the most advanced automated AI/ML supply chain security platform to identify vulnerabilities in firmware and software components
Raised $14,075,003.00 from Cisco Investments, Two Bear Capital, Acrobator Ventures | Acrobator.vc, Blu Venture Investors, Liquid 2 Ventures, Mike Goguen, WestWave Capital and Canaan Partners.