Startups Take on AI’s Velocity Challenge

In recent years, we’ve witnessed the breakout growth stories of GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT expand into a movement that has sparked an investment frenzy in GenAI. Against a backdrop of a cooled VC market that is deploying funds at roughly 55% of 2021’s peak, GenAI is a VC hotspot unlike any other in recent memory, […]
Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

From Data Overload to Insight: How AI is Shaping the Next Era of Observability

Enterprise observability is the practice of measuring the state of an IT system by examining its outputs. This process involves reliability and operations engineers manually wrangling together disparate data sources and information, using multiple software tools, to understand operating state. The goal is to maintain system performance, which is crucial for digital services like video […]
Microsoft-backed startup debuts task optimized enterprise AI models that run on CPUs

Fastino

Relyance AI raises $32M to make AI data governance more transparent

Yahoo Finance: Microsoft’s venture capital firm searches for next OpenAI

Armada

Founders Feature: Space and Time

Earlier this year, Space and Time announced their Series A funding round, raising $20M to “bring the verifiability of blockchain to AI applications.” This is in addition to their previous funding round (also $20M), led by M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund. In this edition of Founders Feature, we sat down with Nate Holiday, Co-Founder and CEO […]
Founders Feature: Armada

Recently, Armada announced a $40M funding round, led by M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, that will help the company further its mission to bridge the digital divide and bring connectivity, compute, and AI capabilities to the outermost edges of the world. In this edition of Founders Feature, we sat down with Armada Co-Founder and CEO Dan […]