Founders Feature: Upscale AI

Upscale AI Team

In May 2025, Upscale AI emerged from stealth and touted a $5.5M seed round, with proud participation from M12. With this announcement, Upscale AI unveiled the first end-to-end AI-native platform built to create, run, and optimize performance TV ads across streaming and connected video channels. This investment was made alongside NVP Capital, Eniac Ventures, SuperAngel.Fund, […]

Founders Feature: Edera

Edera Team

In February 2025, Edera, the pioneer of strong workload isolation technology, announced its Series A round of funding totaling $15M. This round was led by M12 with participation from Mantis VC and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Existing investors Eniac Ventures, 645 Ventures, FPV Ventures, Precursor Ventures, and Rosecliff Ventures also participated in the round. Co-founder and CEO […]

Founders Feature: Relyance

Relyance Team

In October 2024, Relyance, the leading AI-powered data governance platform that provides complete visibility and control over enterprise-wide data, announced its Series B round of funding totaling $32M. This round was led by Thomvest with participation from M12, Cheyenne Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures. Founder and CEO Abhi Sharma explained in a recent conversation […]

Founders Feature: d-Matrix

d-Matrix Product Diagram

In November of last year, d-Matrix emerged from stealth, announcing a total of $154M raised and backing from more than 25 different companies. Their recent Series B round was led by Singapore’s Temasek, with support from M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. As Karl Freund put it in Forbes, “d-Matrix uses a hybrid approach to memory that […]

Founders Feature: SynthLabs

SynthLabs Team

In March, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, and Spark Ventures co-led the seed funding round for SynthLabs, a startup that’s developing leading technology for a fully auditable, transparent and robust AI alignment platform.  As Michael Stewart, Managing Partner at M12, put it in a post announcing the news, “SynthLabs is poised to create AI that is […]