JC2 Ventures

Founded in 2018, JC2 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in investing in startups and growth-stage companies with a focus on digital technology, internet of things, security, agtech, and other sectors with significant digital implications.

John Chambers

Founder and CEO

10 past transactions

Altimate AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Altimate AI is a developer of an artificial intelligence collaboration platform tailored for data teams seeking to enhance their development processes. The company's flagship product, DataPilot, features a suite of AI agents that seamlessly integrate with the tools commonly used by data professionals. This platform automates the creation of comprehensive data documentation, enhances data quality testing, and generates data contracts, all while ensuring the secure handling of sensitive information. By providing clear explanations for complex queries, Altimate AI facilitates better understanding and optimization of code, enabling teams to identify anomalies and inconsistencies in datasets. Ultimately, Altimate AI empowers businesses to prevent data quality issues and improve collaboration across their data operations.

SAFE Security

Series B in 2023
SAFE Security, also known as Lucideus Tech Private Limited, is a cyber risk management company headquartered in New Delhi, India. Founded in 2012, it specializes in providing comprehensive information technology risk assessment and digital security services to organizations globally. The company develops a cyber risk quantification and management platform that enables businesses to continuously monitor and respond to cyber threats in real time. SAFE Security's offerings include IT security maturity assessments, governance policy formation, application security, IT infrastructure security, and emergency response services. By establishing a common risk taxonomy, the platform facilitates better communication among stakeholders and shifts the focus of security discussions from tactical projects to strategic value, ultimately helping organizations mitigate cyber risks through prioritized actionable insights.

BigSpring

Venture Round in 2022
BigSpring is a company specializing in an AI-powered platform designed to enhance revenue acceleration. It equips businesses with the latest product innovations to drive growth by keeping sales teams informed and productive. Notable clients include Google, Pfizer, Cisco, HSBC, Tata Steel, and Liberty Global. These companies have reported significant improvements, such as increased partner sales productivity, higher upsell rates, and accelerated time to market. BigSpring's platform features an AI engine that delivers personalized campaigns with continuous practice and scoring, ensuring global teams and partners are well-prepared to drive business growth. The company is recognized as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer and has advisors including John Chambers, Stewart Butterfield, and Adam Grant.

ParkourSC

Venture Round in 2022
ParkourSC is a logistics and supply chain company that delivers a cloud‑based sensor platform for real‑time visibility of assets in motion. The platform creates a digital twin of the supply chain, processing billions of events per second to provide continuous insight into location, condition, timing, and utilization. By collecting data from any source, it enables predictive analytics that detect anomalies and forecast disruptions before they occur. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, the company serves manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors with diagnostic and actionable intelligence.

Balbix

Series C in 2022
Balbix is a cybersecurity company that provides an AI-powered platform for predictive breach risk and resilience. The platform helps CIOs, CISOs, and IT security teams by inventorying and visualizing an organization’s assets, users, and applications, calculating breach risk, and prioritizing security initiatives. It consolidates data from IT and security tools to deliver unified risk visibility, automates vulnerability management, and quantifies cyber risk in monetary terms. The solution aims to improve cyber resilience by predicting critical breach scenarios and supporting risk-based decision making across cloud and on-prem environments. Balbix was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Virsec

Series C in 2021
Virsec is a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in protecting software from cyber threats through innovative self-protection technology. By securing server workloads at runtime, Virsec's software continuously safeguards critical applications from both known and unknown attacks, including zero-day vulnerabilities. The company's patented approach involves mapping acceptable application behavior and instantly identifying any deviations caused by malicious activity, thereby enabling real-time detection and response to cyber threats. Virsec's solutions have been rigorously tested against elite cybersecurity teams and are trusted by numerous Fortune 100 companies, demonstrating the effectiveness of its protection-first model in enhancing application security.

Virsec

Venture Round in 2021
Virsec is a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in protecting software from cyber threats through innovative self-protection technology. By securing server workloads at runtime, Virsec's software continuously safeguards critical applications from both known and unknown attacks, including zero-day vulnerabilities. The company's patented approach involves mapping acceptable application behavior and instantly identifying any deviations caused by malicious activity, thereby enabling real-time detection and response to cyber threats. Virsec's solutions have been rigorously tested against elite cybersecurity teams and are trusted by numerous Fortune 100 companies, demonstrating the effectiveness of its protection-first model in enhancing application security.

Nile

Series B in 2020
Nile is disrupting the enterprise network market by modernizing IT operations with a new AI networking architecture, delivering enterprise networks entirely as a service. For the first time in the industry, its Nile Access Service integrates zero trust security and offers performance guarantees. With Nile, IT organizations close the gap between their digital aspirations and legacy realities, reduce their total cost of ownership by more than 60%, and recover critical IT resources while their users gain superior connectivity. For more information, visit nilesecure.com/journey.

ioTium

Series B in 2018
IoTium, Inc. is a company that provides a managed secure network infrastructure specifically for the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Established in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Chennai, India, IoTium offers a Network as a Service (NaaS) solution that facilitates secure connections between legacy onsite systems and cloud-based applications. This enables industries such as oil and gas, manufacturing, transportation, and smart cities to harness advancements in analytics, machine learning, and predictive analytics. The company's services include features like zero touch provisioning, device discovery, secure connectivity, and network isolation, which collectively minimize deployment complexities and enhance network security. By addressing the needs of various sectors, IoTium plays a crucial role in the digital transformation journey, allowing businesses to fully embrace the potential of Industry 4.0.

Uniphore

Series B in 2017
Uniphore is a global provider of AI-powered conversational automation and speech analytics software. Its SaaS platform incorporates speech recognition, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis to understand and respond to customer conversations across channels. The product suite covers conversational analytics, virtual assistants, and conversational security, including modules such as auMina that deliver real-time insights and fraud prevention. The company targets industries like banking, lending, insurance, retail, agriculture, healthcare, education, and government to enhance customer service and drive efficiency. Founded in 2008, Uniphore is headquartered in Chennai, India, with a global presence through offices in multiple regions.
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