John Bicket Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Investments
  • 3

  • Portfolio
  • 2

  • Exits
  • 1

Exits

John Bicket General Information

Description

Mr. John Bicket is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer & Board Member at Samsara. Mr. Bicket co-founded the company with the mission to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. He is responsible for Samsara's disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure. Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering. At Meraki, he led the Meraki technical team and built a cloud-based platform that combines analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed wifi and networking infrastructure. Originating from his research while a Ph. D. student at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based services that became the most widely deployed cloud managed edge networking platform. Meraki's product lines spanning wifi, switching, routing, firewalls, and mobile-device-management scaled to connect hundreds of millions of network devices across more than 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco's fastest-growing cloud product and one of Cisco's most successful acquisitions. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT. He is an Angel Investor.

Business Details

Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • 1 De Haro Street
  • San Francisco, CA 94107
  • United States
+1 (415)

John Bicket Investments (3)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Company Stage Lead Partner
Nuvo 08-May-2025 Early Stage VC Financial Software Generating Revenue
Meter 14-Feb-2024 Wireless Communications Equipment Generating Revenue
Endaga 07-Aug-2014 Telecommunications Service Providers Generating Revenue

John Bicket Exits (1)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size
Endaga 03-Oct-2015

John Bicket Investments by Industry, Year, and Region

Investments by Industry

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John Bicket Co-Investors (60)

Name With Exits Lead Partner Series Industry
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Tishman Speyer Properties Series chart Industry bar

John Bicket FAQs

  • Who is John Bicket?

    John Bicket is an angel Investor who has made 3 investments.

  • What kind of investor is John Bicket?

    John Bicket is an angel investor.

  • What does John Bicket do?

    As an angel investor, John Bicket invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • What has John Bicket invested in?

    John Bicket has made numerous investments in companies like Nuvo, Meter, and Endaga within the Financial Software, Wireless Communications Equipment, and Telecommunications Service Providers industries.

  • What has John Bicket invested in recently?

    John Bicket's latest investment was on 08-May-2025 in Nuvo, a company within the Financial Software industry.

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