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, […]
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 […]
Welcoming Databook to the M12 portfolio
We’re thrilled to welcome Databook—a leading platform in enterprise customer intelligence—to the M12 portfolio as lead of their Series A round. With fewer opportunities to meet with customers in-person over the past year due to remote work mandates, enterprise sellers needed to make limited interactions with customers really count. Customer intelligence solutions—designed to help sellers […]
Welcoming Dr. Charlie Miller to the M12 Advisory Board
In November 2020, we announced the creation of the M12 Advisory Board, a group of industry-leading experts who are helping our team understand the technology trends on the horizon—shaping our investment theses in their respective focus areas and mentoring the founders in our portfolio. Today, I’m proud to share that Dr. Charlie Miller, Vice President […]
Welcoming Parabol to the M12 portfolio
We’re excited to welcome Parabol — the leading platform for running Agile meetings — to the M12 portfolio as lead of their Series A round. One of our favorite aspects of the diligence process is speaking with a startup’s customers. When a customer is visibly excited to speak about a company’s product during a reference call, it’s always a […]
Congratulating Innovaccer on their unicorn status
I’m thrilled to congratulate Innovaccer — a leading healthcare technology company on a mission to help healthcare care as one — on their latest funding round and unicorn status. M12’s initial investment in Innovaccer was announced in January 2019, marking our firm’s inaugural deal in India. Since that Series B investment, we’ve witnessed the impact that Innovaccer is having […]
RapidSOS raises $85M for a big data platform aimed at emergency responders
F5 snags Volterra multi-cloud management startup for $500M
