Committing to Included VC
Today, we are thrilled to join the consortium of VCs — including Creandum, Daphni, Enern, K Fund, Mangrove Capital, Notion Capital, Seedcamp, Santander Innoventures, and WSGR — supporting Included VC, a global initiative working to realize greater diversity in the venture capital ecosystem. Included VC is on a mission to change the face of the VC […]
Welcoming Hunters to the M12 Portfolio
I am very excited to welcome Hunters to the M12 portfolio today as a co-lead for their Series A round. I have invested in several cyber companies while at M12 that were early in their startup journey, including Aqua Security and WhiteSource. I am constantly on the lookout for talented teams aiming to solve big problems, thoughtfully leading with intelligence […]
Announcing SaaS Launch Lab with Project W to support pre-seed female founders
Project W burst onto M12’s radar last year when they co-hosted a “friendly feedback” Dolphin Tank pitch session for female founders near our Seattle office. An initiative of Davis Wright Tremaine, Project W is on a mission to help female founders build great companies and to help women take their place in the C-suite and the boardroom. […]
Announcing a sponsorship of Black & Brown Founders
M12 and Microsoft for Startups are proud to sign on as the Diamond Corporate Sponsor of Black & Brown Founders, a nonprofit organization providing Black and Latinx entrepreneurs with best practices and a community through which to build and successfully launch their tech companies. This marks the third year that Microsoft has signed on to support this organization. As a result of […]
Pitching and projecting confidence during COVID
I recently presented a webinar to the All Raise community as part of our National Partnership announcement and M12’s Action Plan Series of content to support startup founders during this difficult economic time. My goal with this content was to equip founders with guidance for navigating digital engagement with investors, offer questions to anticipate for COVID-era fundraising, and provide […]
Announcing a National Partnership with All Raise
We are thrilled to announce a National Partnership with All Raise, a new nonprofit organization on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous, equitable future. This partnership solidifies our commitment to work closely with All Raise to develop programming that delivers on their vision: to realize a […]
Welcoming FortressIQ to the M12 portfolio
I’m excited to welcome FortressIQ — creator of a platform that delivers real-time end-to-end processes for the modern enterprise — to the M12 portfolio. In the face of explosive data growth, automation is increasingly critical to an organization’s ability to scale and compete. By automating routine tasks and business processes, companies can reduce costs, improve data quality, and grow […]
Welcoming FarEye to the M12 Portfolio
At M12, we are always on the lookout for entrepreneurs leveraging technology to positively disrupt the enterprise. We’re delighted to welcome FarEye — a SaaS platform for optimizing supply chain and logistics operations — to M12’s portfolio. Since its founding, FarEye has been reimagining supply chain and logistics infrastructure with advanced digital technologies to empower businesses. The […]
Welcoming PsiQuantum to the M12 portfolio
I’m excited to welcome PsiQuantum — a company building a scalable, fault tolerant, silicon photonic quantum computer — to the M12 portfolio. The renowned physicist Richard Feynman said, “Nature isn’t classical…and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look […]
Joint statement by Microsoft & AnyVision
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and his team at Covington & Burling have completed their audit of AnyVision. The available evidence demonstrated that AnyVision’s technology has not previously and does not currently power a mass surveillance program in the West Bank that has been alleged in media reports. As such, Covington could not substantiate […]
