3D Robotics vs Cisco
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Pivoted from consumer drones to enterprise construction site mapping software after DJI ceded hardware market; $182M raised using Site Scan for Autodesk-integrated drone-based progress monitoring.
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3D Robotics (3DR) is a San Diego-based company that pivoted from consumer drone manufacturing to enterprise drone software — originally founded in 2009 by Chris Anderson (former Wired editor) and Jordi Muñoz as an open-source drone hardware company, then pivoted to enterprise drone software (Site Scan) for construction and survey site documentation after the consumer drone market was ceded to DJI. Backed by approximately $182 million in total funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Foundry Group, and other investors, 3DR now focuses on the Site Scan platform used by major construction companies including Turner Construction.
San Jose enterprise networking and security (NASDAQ: CSCO) at ~$57B annual revenue; $28B Splunk acquisition completed March 2024 integrating SIEM/SOAR with Cisco Security Cloud competing with Palo Alto Networks for enterprise cybersecurity.
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Cisco Systems Inc. is a San Jose, California-based global technology conglomerate — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: CSCO) as a Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 component — generating approximately $57 billion in annual revenue and employing 86,000+ employees across 150+ countries, operating as the world's leading enterprise networking equipment manufacturer and an expanding cybersecurity and observability platform following the $28 billion acquisition of Splunk (completed March 2024, Cisco's largest-ever acquisition). Cisco's product portfolio spans networking (Catalyst switches, ASR routers, Meraki cloud-managed networking), security (Duo MFA, Cisco Firepower, Umbrella DNS security, SecureX XDR), collaboration (Webex conferencing, Webex Calling), data center (Nexus switches, UCS servers, HyperFlex HCI), and observability (Splunk SIEM/SOAR, AppDynamics APM, ThousandEyes network intelligence). CEO Chuck Robbins has led the company since 2015. Founded 1984 by Stanford computer scientists Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner.
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