Daniel Karp had joined Cisco Investments in 2013 to focus on Israel and Latin America and has now left for Cervin Ventures.

Daniel Karp, a GCV Emerging Leaders 2021 award winner as director of US-listed network equipment provider Cisco’s corporate venturing unit, has joined venture capital firm Cervin Ventures as a partner.

Karp said he will target infrastructure deals around cloud/cloud-native, development operations and tools, security, networking, operations and observability in his new role.

Cervin has had a successful run as a VC under managing partner Preetish Nijhawan, with two of its portfolio companies, LaunchDarkly and Snaplogic, now valued north of…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.