Cisco vs Invisible Technologies

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Invisible Technologies — Application · Private · $144M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

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Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoInvisible Technologies
Size$433.3B mkt cap$144M raised different basis
Employees86,200—
Founded19842015 31 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryHardwareApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareAgent platform, Data service, Platform
HeadquartersSan Jose, USASan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 5

Agent orchestrationData analysisEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyWorkflow automation

Not verified for Invisible Technologies · 12

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareCustomer supportData securityInterconnectModel inferenceModel trainingServer systemsSpeech to textSummarizationThreat detection and responseVoice agent

Recorded for Cisco. Invisible Technologies’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Cisco · 1

Data labelling

Recorded for Invisible Technologies. Cisco’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Cisco

No shared stack layer with the other side.

Invisible Technologies

No shared stack layer with the other side.

No counterpart

Cisco sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Invisible Technologies yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

AI Assistant for Webex Contact CenterApplication

AI assistant for contact-centre agents and supervisors that produces call and transfer summaries, live transcription, suggested chat replies, topic analytics, automatic CSAT scoring and agent burnout signals.

Cisco AI CanvasApplication

AgenticOps workspace where teams and AI agents collaborate to investigate, correlate and resolve issues across domains: natural-language querying, multi-step agent workflows, shared real-time visibility, and native Cisco plus third-party tool integration via Cloud Control Studio.

Cisco AI DefenseApplication

End-to-end AI security product that discovers an organisation's AI assets, red-teams models and applications for vulnerabilities, and enforces runtime guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage.

Cisco IQApplication

Agentic support intelligence delivered inside Cisco Support and Professional Services — 'the delivery vehicle for everything Cisco Support and Professional Services knows about your environment, made continuously available before you ask for it' — generally available as SaaS since April 2026 and included with existing support contracts.

Webex AI Workforce Engagement ManagementApplication

AI-native workforce engagement suite for contact centres that forecasts demand and optimises shifts, uses NLP and LLMs to evaluate 100 percent of human and AI agent interactions (AI Quality Management), and runs performance coaching and AI-led onboarding simulations.

AI agent

Webex AI AgentAI agent

Autonomous customer-service AI agent that handles inquiries conversationally across voice, SMS, email, chat and messaging apps and escalates to a human agent with context when it cannot resolve.

Hardware

Cisco AI PODsHardware

Pre-validated modular AI infrastructure bundles that combine Cisco UCS servers, NVIDIA GPUs, Nexus 9000 400G/800G switching and management software into single orderable stacks for AI inferencing, training and fine-tuning.

Cisco AI PODs for CollaborationHardware

Turnkey on-premises AI appliance that runs real-time speech transcription for Cisco collaboration deployments locally, for customers with data-sovereignty requirements that rule out cloud AI services.

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AIHardware

Cloud-managed full-stack AI cluster sold as hardware plus software plus service, packaging Cisco 6000 and N9300 series switches on an 800GbE back-end fabric, UCS servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and BlueField DPUs, optional VAST storage and NVIDIA AI Enterprise under the Hyperfabric cloud controller.

Cisco Silicon OneHardware

Unified programmable networking-silicon architecture for AI, hyperscale, data-centre, service-provider and enterprise routing/switching, spanning five series (G/P/E/K/A) of chip families.

Invisible Technologies sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Cisco yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

AtomicAgent platform

Documents and automates manual business workflows: maps how work actually gets done, then runs every step automatically, routing to the right AI system or person and enforcing quality checks.

AxonAgent platform

Deploys agents that carry out multi-step work with tool use and an audit trail.

Platform

SynapsePlatform

Evaluates AI systems for quality, safety and accuracy against criteria a customer defines.

Data service

Invisible AI TrainingData service

Recruits and manages experts who produce training data, evaluations and reinforcement-learning environments for AI labs.

MeridialData service

Network of 24,000+ vetted domain experts, continuously screened and organized by skill, language and domain expertise, for AI data labeling, testing and edge-case handling.

NeuronData service

Data platform that pulls messy, scattered data from across a company's systems into one governed place, automatically cleaning and organizing it into an AI-ready foundation.