• NVP Capital interview highlighted Cisco Investments’ AI strategy, led by VP of Investments and Acquisitions Noah Yago, spanning venture investing and M&A.
• Cisco framed enterprise buying as a multi-stakeholder matrix, urging startups to prioritize governance, policy, and switching costs over product demos.
• Yago warned AI proof-of-concepts often fail to convert, citing the need for a budget-holding internal champion to reach production contracts.
• He said early-stage startups often lack resources for large-enterprise programs, pointing to mid-market customers as a faster path to repeatable revenue.
• Cisco’s AI investing was organized into four buckets, with a forward-leaning focus on “world models” as a potential next infrastructure layer for physical AI.

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