Welcoming LottieFiles to the M12 portfolio
Screens have become omnipresent in our day-to-day — a vehicle for all of the static images, videos, and text that comprise updates from friends and family, entertainment, or even advertising. In all the noise, motion has been shown to break through, capturing consumer attention with short, delightful activity. While motion graphics haven’t witnessed much innovation […]
Enterprise opportunities abound in 2021
Back in April, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella noted that the pace of enterprise tech adoption had accelerated: “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months.” Whether it was shoring up your team’s WFH collaboration capabilities or increasing the number of remote happy hours on your calendar, COVID-19 has fundamentally upended traditional ways […]
Welcoming Andor Health to the M12 portfolio
I am very excited to welcome Andor Health, a company that harnesses machine and human intelligence to change the way care teams connect and collaborate with patients, to the M12 portfolio as their sole Series A investor. The global pandemic has forced an important focus on the healthcare industry and the infrastructure that supports it. While […]
Announcing the M12 Advisory Board
At M12, our goal is to identify visionary founders developing the next generation of technological shifts in the enterprise. Our team boasts decades of experience in R&D, product innovation, business development, and entrepreneurship; but the accelerating pace of innovation has motivated us to forge connections with industry-leading experts to more broadly forecast what’s on the […]
Announcing a Sponsorship of Colorintech
McKinsey’s Diversity wins: How inclusion matters report, released in May 2020, reinforces that a commitment to diversity is a winning strategy. The firm’s study of ethnic and cultural diversity in 2019 demonstrates that “top quartile companies outperformed those in the fourth one by 36 percent in profitability.” While the stats confirm the financial imperative and innovation gains of diversity, […]
Celebrating the inaugural SaaS Launch Lab cohort
Back in June, in partnership with Davis Wright Tremaine’s Project W, we opened applications for SaaS Launch Lab — a program for promising pre-seed, female-led companies developing enterprise SaaS solutions. The five-week program of virtual workshops is designed to help female founders refine their proof of concept, find the right product-market fit, build a team, […]
Welcoming Pachyderm to the M12 portfolio
We’re excited to welcome Pachyderm — a data science platform that combines Data Lineage with End-to-End Pipelines on Kubernetes — to the M12 portfolio. Despite the growing number of applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the tool sets used to execute data science projects largely have not kept pace. Machine learning workflows are time-intensive […]
Co-leading Syntiant’s Series C
I’d like to congratulate Syntiant on raising a successful Series C round, and on surpassing the major milestone of 1 million units shipped. At M12, we’re incredibly proud to support the growth stage of this AI chip company, and to see their customer production volumes ramping. In the words of Professor Andrew Ng, “AI is the new electricity.” […]
Direct Line with Jason Warner, GitHub CTO
Direct Line is a series of interviews with Microsoft execs with an eye toward the startup and VC ecosystem. Our inaugural Q&A session is with Jason Warner, the Chief Technology Officer of GitHub. Jason filled us in on the software development trends that have his attention, and the framework that he uses to consider if the team […]
Announcing our Female Founders Competition winners
Last fall, in partnership with Mayfield and Melinda Gates’s Pivotal Ventures, we launched the second Female Founders Competition to award $6M to four women-led companies building enterprise software and deeptech solutions. While the data has been refreshed with a new calendar year, all-female founding teams earned just 2.8% of venture capital invested in the US in 2019. With more […]
