M&A Deal Summary

Cisco Systems Acquires Cognitive Security s.r.o.

On February 25, 2013, Cisco Systems acquired software company Cognitive Security s.r.o.

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Cisco Systems’ 69th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Cisco Systems’ 1st transaction in Czech Republic.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-02-25
Target Cognitive Security s.r.o.
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Cisco Systems
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Cognitive Security s.r.o.

Prague, Czech Republic
Cognitive Security s.r.o. is a privately-held company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. Cognitive Security is focused on taking cutting edge research in the field of network security and applying artificial intelligence techniques to detect advanced cyber threats.

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Buyer

Cisco Systems

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1984
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees90,400
Revenue 53.8B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Cisco's corporate campus in San Jose, California.
Entrance to Cisco's corporate campus in San Jose, California.

Cisco Systems designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (IT) industry and provides services associated with these products and their use. Cisco provides a broad line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world. The Company's products are designed to transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate, and are installed at enterprise businesses, public institutions, telecommunications companies and other service providers, commercial businesses, and personal residences. Cisco was founded in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 163 of 223
Sector: Software M&A 69 of 87
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 156 of 215
Country: Czech Republic M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 2 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-02-25 Intucell

Ra'anana, Israel

Intucell Ltd. is a provider of advanced self-optimizing network (SON) software, which enables mobile carriers to plan, configure, manage, optimize and heal cellular networks automatically, according to real-time changing network demands.

Buy $475M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-03-25 SolveDirect Service Management

Vienna, Austria

SolveDirect Service Management GmbH is a provider of cloud-delivered software that integrates services management.

Buy -