Welcoming Arkose Labs to the M12 portfolio
I’m excited to welcome Arkose Labs — a fraud and abuse prevention platform, to protect web and mobile apps — to the M12 portfolio. In an increasingly digital world where success is measured by Monthly Active Users (MAU) and Daily Active Users (DAU), online traffic is a critical performance indicator. Unfortunately, not all online traffic […]
Announcing Our Female Founders Competition Finalists
With 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley, I’ve seen first-hand how difficult it can be to grow a successful startup. Building great technology, recruiting talent, and landing customers are all difficult challenges that every entrepreneur faces. But for some entrepreneurs, there are additional hurdles that prevent them from realizing success. Why do we need […]
Welcoming Evisort to the M12 portfolio
I am very excited to welcome Evisort to the M12 portfolio today as a co-lead for their Series A round. Ever since my first meeting with the team—hearing about their vision to modernize the underserved legal contracting and operations spaces with actionable insights—I knew this would be a natural fit for our fund. At M12, we’re always on […]
Welcoming Applied Intuition to the M12 portfolio
The venture capitalist’s job is to identify the rare combination of unique technology, unsolved problem, and world-class team, and provide such a team with the capital they need to achieve their vision. M12, as the three year-old venture firm backed by Microsoft, has significant experience here, deploying hundreds of millions of dollars into startups spanning […]
M12 hosts its inaugural India VC Summit
On June 24th 2019, we hosted the first M12 India VC Summit in Bangalore. We were thrilled to welcome 150 influential leaders from startups and venture capital funds from all over India for an action-packed, all-day event with carefully curated content and exceptional speakers from Microsoft, leading venture funds and startups, as well M12 portfolio founders. The […]
M12 spotlights progress in Europe at London VC event
Last month, M12 brought together 50 representatives from nearly 30 venture capital firms for a gathering in London to present insights on the latest technology trends, M12’s regional investments, and the value-add strategies of our portfolio development team. Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Global Head of M12, Nagraj Kashyap, opened the event by reflecting on the […]
M12 Leads Go1 Series B
We are excited to welcome Go1 to the M12 family as the lead for their Series B round. Nagraj Kashyap and I vividly remember meeting Andrew Barnes and Chris Eigeland, two of four co-founders of Go1, for the first time back in July 2018 and immediately thinking – wow, this team has built a product […]
Codefresh honored with Attendee Choice Award
This past week, M12 and Microsoft for Startups hosted the first “Startups at Microsoft Build: Attendee Choice Award.” Over three days, eight selected startups made their pitch to Build attendees looking for the latest and greatest in innovative developer-focused solutions. The attendees were then asked to vote for their favorite startup with the winner receiving […]
M12 begins investing in India
Looking back at the last few years, we are incredibly proud of what the team has accomplished. What began as a team of five has grown into a team of 22 as our portfolio grew from a handful of high growth startups, to now 73 investments to date. In the past year, we’ve had three successful exits, our first exits since creating the […]
Our Female Founders Competition Finalists
Our Female Founders Competition Finalists: Ten Women-led Companies Transforming Enterprise Tech During my tenure at M12, I’ve been consistently inspired by all the incredible female founders I’ve been privileged to meet and, in turn, frustrated when I hear the industry misconception that there aren’t enough women starting enterprise tech companies. I’ve worked alongside them, invested in them; yet […]
