Mike Lim

Head of Venture Investments & Corp Dev for Cisco Collaboration

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025
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Board Observer
Sep 2025
At HYCU, we believe that every business should be safe. Our mission is to build a safer world. With our data protection as a service platform, we make it easy for you to move your data freely, easily, and safely without the burden of managing and scaling backup infrastructure. HYCU is: Built for your tech stack, today and tomorrow​ Engineered to ​ be shockingly ​simple Designed for the ​people behind the​ data​ As an award-winning and recognized visionary in the industry, HYCU solutions eliminate complexity, risk, and the high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity to make the world safer. With an industry-leading NPS score of 91, customers experience frictionless, cost-effective data protection, anywhere, everywhere. Interested in learning more? Check us out at www.hycu.com and follow us on Twitter @HYCUinc Looking to make a difference with #TeamPurple? Check our openings: https://www.hycu.com/about/careers
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Feb 2025
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
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Jan 2025
GetReal Security is the world’s leading authority on malicious digital content and deepfake protection. The company serves enterprises, governments, news organizations, and social media platforms, offering advanced solutions to verify and authenticate digital content files and secure real-time communication streams. The company was purpose-built by domain experts across cybersecurity, digital-forensics, artificial intelligence and computer vision. GetReal was incubated by Ballistic Ventures, the venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to incubating entrepreneurs and innovation in cybersecurity, and Hany Farid, the world’s foremost expert in digital media forensics. GetReal provides the clarity and peace of mind that holds up in the boardroom, newsroom and courtroom.
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Jun 2024
Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end AI products designed to solve real-world business problems. We partner closely with companies to deliver seamless integration, full customization, and easy-to-use solutions for their workforce and customers. Our all-in-one platform offers enterprises the highest levels of data security, privacy and optionality to deploy across all major cloud providers, private cloud environments, or on-premises. HQ: 171 John Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON M5T 1X3
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May 2024
Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
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Dec 2022
Join us in building the next-generation voice technology for people with non-standard speech, so they can communicate, be understood, and have a voice. #speechrecognition #voiceAI #accessibilitymatters Voiceitt is an award-winning speech recognition startup and social enterprise that has developed a proprietary automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology that translates non-standard speech patterns into clear speech in real-time. This technology enables children and adults with speech impairments, accented English, or aging voices to access mainstream voice-activated technologies and devices. The Israel-based software company is now expanding its business operations in the US Northeast. Demo: https://vimeo.com/88557645
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Nov 2022
Airtop provides intelligent browser automation for AI agents, enabling seamless web interaction, including login, navigation, and data extraction from any site, even those requiring complex authentication processes. With features like natural-language instructions, human-in-the-loop integration, high-performance scalability, and robust AI framework support, Airtop simplifies the development and deployment of AI-powered agents, making it an essential tool for AI-driven projects that require dynamic web interaction.
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Aug 2022
Aisera’s products are delivered as part of Automation Anywhere’s Agentic Process Automation (APA) system, enabling autonomous support for IT, HR, customer service, and more at enterprise scale. creating a unified technology stack purpose-built for the Autonomous Enterprise. Aisera’s products and solutions deliver value at some of the world’s most prominent brands and Fortune 500 enterprises, including Adobe, Aramark, Workday, T-Mobile, Gilead, Amgen, and BNSF Railway. Organizations using Aisera see quantifiable outcomes: up to 63% annual cost savings, 55%+ higher employee productivity, 78% employee satisfaction, and 84% auto-resolution rates across all requests.
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Feb 2022
Theta Lake’s multi-award winning product suite provides patented compliance and security for modern collaboration platforms, enabling limitless integrations to unify the capture of any Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) platform across all channels. Major integrations include Zoom, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Webex by Cisco, Slack, Asana, Movius, Mural and more. Theta Lake can capture, act as a unified archive connector across modalities for pre-existing archives of record, and/or act as a completely unified archive for all eComms, aComms (voice), vComms (video and images), and more. In addition to comprehensive capture and archiving, Theta Lake enables unified search and full replay across all modalities and content types including full conversation views across meshed UCC tools and media types. With unified visibility, customers can more successfully implement proactive compliance using patented ML and AI to detect regulatory, privacy, and security risks in communications. Visit us at ThetaLake.com to learn why we were named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving.
Board Observer
Jul 2021
ActionIQ is a leader in the massive and fast growing category of Customer Data Platforms (CDP). Our product brings order to Customer Experience (CX) chaos. ActionIQ’s CX Hub empowers everyone to be a CX champion by giving business teams the freedom to explore and take action on customer data, while helping technical teams regain control of where data lives and how it is used. We are backed by top-tier VCs Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and March Capital. Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley, The Washington Post, Hertz, Atlassian and many more use our CX Hub to achieve growth through extraordinary customer experiences.
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Jul 2021
Whatfix is advancing the "userization" of application technology, by empowering companies to maximize the ROI of digital investments across the application lifecycle. Powered by GenAI, Whatfix’s product suite includes a digital adoption platform, simulated application environments for hands-on training, and no-code application analytics. Whatfix enables organizations to drive user productivity, ensure process compliance, and improve user experience of internal and customer-facing applications. With seven offices across the US, India, UK, Germany, Singapore, and Australia, Whatfix supports 700+ enterprises, including 80+ Fortune 500s like Shell, Microsoft, Schneider Electric, Cisco, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, and Genuine Parts Company. Backed by investors such as Warburg Pincus, Softbank Vision Fund 2, Dragoneer, Peak XV Partners, Eight Roads, and Cisco Investments, software clicks with Whatfix. For more information, visit the Whatfix website.
Board Observer
Jul 2021
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Feb 2021
Moogsoft is an AIOps incident management platform for engineering teams responsible for maintaining high availability. In the face of increasing telemetry data, systems, and tools, our machine learning algorithms help automate noise reduction, correlation, and data classification across your incident workflow so you can get to root cause and remediation faster. Founded in 2012, Moogsoft has more than 200 customers worldwide including American Airlines, Fannie Mae, Fiserv, HCL Technologies, Yahoo, and more. It has established strategic partnerships with leading managed service providers and outsourcing organizations including AWS, Cisco, HCL Technologies, TCS and Wipro. For more information about Moogsoft’s AIOps platform and its customers’ success, visit www.moogsoft.com.
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Jan 2020
Generative AI has taken the world by a storm, creating a boom for GPUs, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Compute Express Link (CXL) memory. At this pivotal moment, MemVerge has built a Big Memory Computing Platform that continuously right sizes computing and memory resources for AI workloads. The platform consists of software suites that optimize performance, cost and availability of applications running in the public cloud and hybrid cloud. For the public cloud, Memory Machine™ Cloud is a new cloud automation platform that intelligently manages workloads on public cloud. By dynamically adapting cloud resources to real-time application needs and enabling all applications to run reliably on spot instances, Memory Machine Cloud delivered an order-of-magnitude higher resource efficiency for users such as Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), and Seekgene. The software also features real-time tracking of cloud resources and carbon footprint needed for the future of sustainable IT. The advent of CXL is a giant step towards removing the fundamental "memory wall" bottlenecking AI applications today. CXL technology gives AI apps desperately needed memory bandwidth and capacity while driving down costs with composable memory that can be shared. Partnering closely CXL leaders such as Samsung, SK hynix and Micron, award-winning MemVerge software for CXL enables applications to access pools of memory without modifying applications, while providing optimal performance and cost. MemVerge software for CXL also offers data services, such as an application checkpointing service, ensuring uninterrupted application availability, with full integration into Kubernetes. To learn more about MemVerge, visit our official website: www.memverge.com
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Board Observer
Sep 2025
At HYCU, we believe that every business should be safe. Our mission is to build a safer world. With our data protection as a service platform, we make it easy for you to move your data freely, easily, and safely without the burden of managing and scaling backup infrastructure. HYCU is: Built for your tech stack, today and tomorrow​ Engineered to ​ be shockingly ​simple Designed for the ​people behind the​ data​ As an award-winning and recognized visionary in the industry, HYCU solutions eliminate complexity, risk, and the high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity to make the world safer. With an industry-leading NPS score of 91, customers experience frictionless, cost-effective data protection, anywhere, everywhere. Interested in learning more? Check us out at www.hycu.com and follow us on Twitter @HYCUinc Looking to make a difference with #TeamPurple? Check our openings: https://www.hycu.com/about/careers
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Feb 2025
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
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Jan 2025
GetReal Security is the world’s leading authority on malicious digital content and deepfake protection. The company serves enterprises, governments, news organizations, and social media platforms, offering advanced solutions to verify and authenticate digital content files and secure real-time communication streams. The company was purpose-built by domain experts across cybersecurity, digital-forensics, artificial intelligence and computer vision. GetReal was incubated by Ballistic Ventures, the venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to incubating entrepreneurs and innovation in cybersecurity, and Hany Farid, the world’s foremost expert in digital media forensics. GetReal provides the clarity and peace of mind that holds up in the boardroom, newsroom and courtroom.
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Jun 2024
Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end AI products designed to solve real-world business problems. We partner closely with companies to deliver seamless integration, full customization, and easy-to-use solutions for their workforce and customers. Our all-in-one platform offers enterprises the highest levels of data security, privacy and optionality to deploy across all major cloud providers, private cloud environments, or on-premises. HQ: 171 John Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON M5T 1X3
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