Congratulating At-Bay on their unicorn status
M12 initially invested in At-Bay —the insurance company for the digital age— during their Series B fundraise, followed by Series C participation in December 2020. Today, I’m thrilled to congratulate At-Bay on a successful Series D funding round and their newly minted unicorn status. At-Bay has developed an end-to-end cyber insurance solution to serve small to medium-sized […]
Partnering with Women in Cloud at Microsoft Inspire and beyond
For the past several years, M12 has proudly supported the work of Women in Cloud, a community-led economic development organization on a mission to generate $1 billion in new global economic access for women entrepreneurs by 2030. With their Cloud Accelerator, Women in Cloud is supporting women-led B2B software companies with customer access, cloud credits, […]
Leveraging OKRs for alignment and growth
In the summer of 2020, M12 adopted portfolio company solution WorkBoard, an OKRs software tool, to keep our globally distributed team focused and accountable. During a period of entirely remote work, WorkBoard enabled our team to better articulate priorities, identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration, and quickly onboard new teammates to the business. WorkBoard’s Sameera Moinpour, VP Strategic Services, […]
Congratulating env0 on a successful Series A
We’re thrilled to lead the Series A round of env0—a provider of automated, collaborative, remote-run workflow management for cloud deployments. Cloud infrastructure scale is rapidly increasing, evolving from the traditional single instance model to several smaller instances. The modern, distributed approach escalates application complexity and requires resource elasticity. To manage these environments, enterprises use Infrastructure […]
Celebrating the Black and Latinx female founders of Tech Equity Hub’s inaugural cohort
This blog was co-authored by Market Development Lead Elisa Garcia Anzano. In 2020, our initial partnership project with Davis Wright Tremaine’s Project W came to life: SaaS Launch Lab—a series of virtual workshops for pre-seed, women-led companies developing enterprise SaaS solutions. Just weeks after the wrap of SaaS Launch Lab, the Project W team approached us with another opportunity. Reflecting on their years of important work to help women […]
M12 Manufacturing Summit: Futureproofing the Enterprise
From the COVID pandemic to the Ever Given’s mishap in the Suez Canal, recent shocks to the global supply chain have demonstrated that the need for resilience is greater than ever. The turmoil and uncertainty of the last year-plus exposed serious risks and vulnerabilities, with automakers like Ford and GM warning of complete shutdowns and […]
Welcoming BVCC Venture Fellow Damian Murray
We’re thrilled to welcome Black Venture Capital Consortium (BVCC) Venture Fellow Damian Murray to M12 for a summer internship. Damian’s professional background includes working with early-stage startups and developing innovation and entrepreneurship programs for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). His partnership with Black founders and experience supporting startup crowdfunding efforts motivated Damian […]
M12 portfolio companies empower developers at Microsoft Build
Microsoft Build 2021 is a digital, three-day event to help developers expand their skillsets, find technical solutions, and better understand challenges on the horizon. Attendees have access to over 250 sessions on everything from building cloud-native applications, to data and AI capabilities, to collaborative apps for the hybrid workplace. Featured speakers including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and EVP of Cloud + […]
Welcoming NextBillion.ai to the M12 portfolio
We’re thrilled to welcome NextBillion.ai—a leading geospatial data platform—to the M12 portfolio with their latest funding milestone. Location intelligence is core to an increasing number of customer scenarios—whether you’re providing an ETA for a rideshare car, tracking the location of a package on an 18-wheeler, or routing a pizza delivery in dense city traffic on […]
Welcoming Artificial to the M12 portfolio
We’re thrilled to welcome Artificial—a software company building a first-of-its-kind lab automation platform—to the M12 portfolio as lead of their Series A round. Biology research labs have yet to have their Industrial and Digital Revolutions. When I started my academic research career at the National Institutes of Health 21 years ago and my biopharmaceutical career at Novartis 15 […]
