Reuters: Technology News: Cisco to invest in Israeli venture capital funds

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Cisco to invest in Israeli venture capital funds Jun 19th 2013, 16:22 Tweet Share this Email Print A pedestrian walks past the Cisco logo at the technology company's campus in San Jose, California February 3, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith JERUSALEM | Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:22pm EDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Cisco Systems will invest $15 million in Israeli venture capital funds as part of a broader plan to expand its operations in Israel and outside the United States, the company said on Wednesday. The investment will be made in funds that support integration of Israelis and Arabs and the development of innovative security technologies. Cisco, which last year bought Israeli pay-TV smartcard maker NDS for $5 billion, also said it would establish a development centre in Israel that will sponsor research on cyber security and analyze security in the financial, health and industrial sectors. Cisco is building a network of consulting services to assist and provide answers to security needs, and is recruiting 100 strategic workers in Israel. It already has 2,000 employees in Israel. "No country has start-ups like Israel does and I go where the start-ups are," Chief Executive John Chambers told a news conference during a trip to Israel. Israel "will be the first country in the world to go end-to-end digital," he said, noting it will be boosted by an ambitious project to build a super-fast fibre optics network. A group led by Sweden's Viaeuropa was chosen to build the network along with state-run utility Israel Electric Corp using Cisco's technology. Cisco said the project, which will cost billions of shekels, is expected to be completed in 7-10 years but Chambers said he was pushing for full deployment in 18-36 months. Cisco, he said, is financing $140 million of the project. Global tech spending remains positive, Chamber said, with the United States and most of Europe showing improvement in recent quarters. Emerging markets, particularly India, have turned the corner. "If the U.S. and China don't lead us out of this slowdown, no matter how effective we are in other parts of the world, you won't see the global economy coming around," he said. Chambers, though, said it would continue to invest mostly outside of the United States due to the U.S.'s high taxes. (Reporting by Steven Scheer) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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