Jon Koplin

Managing Director at Cisco Investments and Corporate Development

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
15
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4
Mid stage
2
Late stage
12y
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Portfolio

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Investor
2025
LangChain provides the agent engineering platform and open source frameworks developers need to ship reliable agents fast.
Investor
2024
Frontier AI. In your hands. We believe in a future where AI is abundant and accessible. We aspire to empower the world to build with—and benefit from—the most significant technology of our time. Join us: https://jobs.lever.co/mistral/
Investor/Board Observer
2024
DEScycle is a deep tech company that aims to transform the metals industry. We create innovative metal recovery & recycling methods using eco-friendly Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES). These non-toxic, non-water-based salts allow for low-temperature, low-energy operations; resulting in low-carbon, low-impact metals. Descycles goal is to end the reliance upon high-energy pollutive smelters, toxic chemicals and strong acids in the metals industry. #deeptech #netzero #recycling
Investor/Board Observer
2023
Binalyze is an innovator in Investigation and Response Automation. With evidence collected, our Timeline, Triage, and Drone features help you to collaborate and complete incident response investigations quickly and dramatically reduce dwell time. AIR saves you time, reduces cybersecurity operational costs, and helps you prevent the financial and reputational losses associated with cyber attacks.
Board Observer
2020
We are one of the largest independent automated driving technology providers in the world. Our holistic approach to driving automation tackles three main industry challenges: software, development and validation tools, and processing hardware. Our team of over 230 works in offices in the USA, Japan, and Hungary to ensure our products are solving the real-world challenges of driving automation. We rely on our team’s expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, 3D graphics and real-world automated driving workloads, developed utilizing our global test fleet to provide robust solutions. As a result, our market-ready products can accelerate the safe and affordable deployment of ADAS and automated driving bringing these life-saving technologies to the public sooner.
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Board Observer
2019
Panaseer helps organizations cut audit preparation time by 75% and continuously reduce cyber risk with 250+ trusted security metrics. Our Continuous Controls Monitoring platform delivers actionable insights, intuitive dashboards, and proven compliance outcomes for CISOs and their teams.
Investor/Board Observer
2018
BehavioSec®, now LexisNexis® BehavioSec®, is the industry pioneer and technology leader for behavioral biometrics. We deliver actionable behavioral identity insight so businesses can provide customer-first digital experiences. Our behavioral biometrics technology helps passively establish identity trust and proactively target fraud as a transaction is happening. Find out more by visiting us at: https://risk.lexisnexis.com/
Board Observer
2018
Worldsensing is a global IoT pioneer. We are experts in monitoring large-scale and civil infrastructure through IoT remote technology. Together with a global partner network, we serve engineering customers in 70+ countries across mining, construction, rail and structural health.
Board Observer
2018
Relayr is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) powerhouse delivering the most complete solutions for a risk-free digital transformation and supporting our customer on the journey to Equipment as a Service. We enable industrial companies to shift from CAPEX to OPEX-based offerings by providing a combination of unique IIoT technology and solutions with powerful business services such as IoT Financial Services or bespoke transformation de-risking instruments – all from a single source. With relayr, manufacturers, operators, and service companies for industrial equipment are empowered to implement fully interoperable Industrial IoT solutions guaranteed to enable their digital and Equipment as a Service transformation journey, regardless of their starting point. For more information, please visit: relayr.io
Board Member
2018
company liquidated
Board Observer
2017
Actility, one of the co-inventors of LoRaWAN® technology and a founding member of the LoRa Alliance, is the leader in industrial-grade low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) connectivity and IoT tracking solutions. Actility’s ThingPark™ platform, which supports multi-radio connectivity (LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, LTE-M), powers the majority of public networks (over 50) and numerous private and enterprise networks worldwide. Through its subsidiary Abeeway, Actility offers patented ultra-low power, multi-radio trackers and comprehensive indoor and outdoor geolocation services. Additionally, the ThingPark Market boasts the largest catalog of LoRaWAN® devices, gateways, and solutions available.
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2025
Investor
2025
LangChain provides the agent engineering platform and open source frameworks developers need to ship reliable agents fast.
2024
Investor
2024
Frontier AI. In your hands. We believe in a future where AI is abundant and accessible. We aspire to empower the world to build with—and benefit from—the most significant technology of our time. Join us: https://jobs.lever.co/mistral/
Investor
2024
CorPower Ocean designs, manufactures and operates wave energy farms for our customers. The wave farm solution have a unique design inspired by the pumping principles of the human heart, allowing it to survive the toughest storms. Advanced control technology makes the wave energy converters oscillate in optimal timing with incoming waves, strongly amplifying power absorption. This enables high power output compared to the size, weight and cost of the equipment The combination of low costs, high capacity factor and an effective maintenance scheme makes wave power a key tool to accelerate the transition to 100% renewables around the world
Investor/Board Observer
2024
DEScycle is a deep tech company that aims to transform the metals industry. We create innovative metal recovery & recycling methods using eco-friendly Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES). These non-toxic, non-water-based salts allow for low-temperature, low-energy operations; resulting in low-carbon, low-impact metals. Descycles goal is to end the reliance upon high-energy pollutive smelters, toxic chemicals and strong acids in the metals industry. #deeptech #netzero #recycling
2023
Investor/Board Observer
2023
Binalyze is an innovator in Investigation and Response Automation. With evidence collected, our Timeline, Triage, and Drone features help you to collaborate and complete incident response investigations quickly and dramatically reduce dwell time. AIR saves you time, reduces cybersecurity operational costs, and helps you prevent the financial and reputational losses associated with cyber attacks.
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