{"id":133992,"date":"2021-12-29T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/?p=133992"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:10:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:10:58","slug":"why-cisco-launchpads-cohort-of-2022-could-be-the-springboard-to-get-on-top-of-your-game-and-scale-exponentially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/blog\/why-cisco-launchpads-cohort-of-2022-could-be-the-springboard-to-get-on-top-of-your-game-and-scale-exponentially\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cisco LaunchPad&#8217;s Cohort of 2022 could be the springboard to get on top of your game and scale exponentially"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Yellow.ai<\/em>, the world&#8217;s first cognitive engagement cloud, raised $78.15 million as part of its Series C round led by WestBridge Capital, Sapphire Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Skit.ai&nbsp;<\/em>(formerly vernacular.ai), a voice AI startup, raised $23M in Series B round from WestBridge Capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI startup&nbsp;<em>Uncanny Vision<\/em>&nbsp;got acquired by global cloud surveillance company Eagle Eye Networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\ufeffMinionLabs\ufeff,<\/em>&nbsp;a startup that uses AI and ML to help reduce electricity costs, won the National Startup Awards 2020 by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s common among all these successful startups is that they were all part of Cisco LaunchPad, a B2B accelerator programme by Cisco. Launched in 2016, the programme&#8217;s mission is to propel deeptech startups who have the potential to do big in terms of addressing some of the pressing challenges of the modern world by leveraging Cisco&#8217;s cutting-edge technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After seven successful cohorts, Cisco LaunchPad is now inviting applications for the Cohort of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/yourstory.com\/2021\/11\/cisco-launchpads-cohort-2022-springboard-scale-exponentially\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the News<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Covered on these news sites. Click the image to read more.<\/em> By Jerlin Justu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yourstory.com\/2021\/11\/cisco-launchpads-cohort-2022-springboard-scale-exponentially\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"205\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Yourstory-lg.png\" alt=\"Yourstory-lg\" class=\"wp-image-130626\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow.ai, the world&#8217;s first cognitive engagement cloud, raised $78.15 million as part of its Series C round led by WestBridge Capital, Sapphire Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. Skit.ai&nbsp;(formerly vernacular.ai), a voice &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/blog\/why-cisco-launchpads-cohort-of-2022-could-be-the-springboard-to-get-on-top-of-your-game-and-scale-exponentially\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Cisco LaunchPad&#8217;s Cohort of 2022 could be the springboard to get on top of your game and scale exponentially<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3155,"featured_media":130615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"4139,4147,4823,4827,4829,4831","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.een.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}