Founders Feature: CruxOCM
In August 2024, CruxOCM announced their Series A funding round of $17M, proudly led by M12. CruxOCM’s platform automates industrial control rooms, enhancing sustainability, profitability, and safety. This investment was made alongside ONEOK, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners and EIC Rose Rock Fund and with continued support from existing investors Angular Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Root Ventures, […]
Founders Feature: Upscale AI
In May 2025, Upscale AI emerged from stealth and touted a $5.5M seed round, with proud participation from M12. With this announcement, Upscale AI unveiled the first end-to-end AI-native platform built to create, run, and optimize performance TV ads across streaming and connected video channels. This investment was made alongside NVP Capital, Eniac Ventures, SuperAngel.Fund, […]
Navigating Agentic Identity: Solutions for a Secure Future
Something that’s becoming critical in our tech-driven world is agentic identity management. With the rise of autonomous agents in different industries, figuring out how to manage these agents, control what they can access, and keep track of what they’re up to is getting tricky. And then there’s the whole issue of Bring Your Own Agent […]
Why we Invested in Solve Intelligence
We are excited to announce M12’s investment in Solve Intelligence’s $12mm Series A, alongside 20VC. Solve Intelligence is an AI-powered platform designed to assist patent attorneys and IP professionals in drafting high-quality patents efficiently. In 2024, there were 3.55 million patent applications filed worldwide, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This was a […]
Founders Feature: Neon
In August 2024, M12 made a strategic investment in Neon, a serverless Postgres database designed for modern developers, to the tune of $25.6M. This investment was made alongside existing investors Abstract Ventures, General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, and Notable Capital. In a feature with TechCrunch, M12 managing partner Andrew Smyth explained, “Postgres is quickly becoming the […]
Founders Feature: Edera
In February 2025, Edera, the pioneer of strong workload isolation technology, announced its Series A round of funding totaling $15M. This round was led by M12 with participation from Mantis VC and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Existing investors Eniac Ventures, 645 Ventures, FPV Ventures, Precursor Ventures, and Rosecliff Ventures also participated in the round. Co-founder and CEO […]
Founders Feature: Relyance
In October 2024, Relyance, the leading AI-powered data governance platform that provides complete visibility and control over enterprise-wide data, announced its Series B round of funding totaling $32M. This round was led by Thomvest with participation from M12, Cheyenne Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures. Founder and CEO Abhi Sharma explained in a recent conversation […]
Founders Feature: d-Matrix
In November of last year, d-Matrix emerged from stealth, announcing a total of $154M raised and backing from more than 25 different companies. Their recent Series B round was led by Singapore’s Temasek, with support from M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. As Karl Freund put it in Forbes, “d-Matrix uses a hybrid approach to memory that […]
Founders Feature: SynthLabs
In March, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, and Spark Ventures co-led the seed funding round for SynthLabs, a startup that’s developing leading technology for a fully auditable, transparent and robust AI alignment platform. As Michael Stewart, Managing Partner at M12, put it in a post announcing the news, “SynthLabs is poised to create AI that is […]
Startups Take on AI’s Velocity Challenge
In recent years, we’ve witnessed the breakout growth stories of GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT expand into a movement that has sparked an investment frenzy in GenAI. Against a backdrop of a cooled VC market that is deploying funds at roughly 55% of 2021’s peak, GenAI is a VC hotspot unlike any other in recent memory, […]
