Welcoming inVia Robotics to the M12 Portfolio
I’m excited to welcome inVia Robotics—the provider of next-generation warehouse automation solutions—to the M12 portfolio as lead of their Series C round. Global ecommerce accelerated exponentially during the pandemic as more consumers shopped online to adhere to stay-at-home mandates. Top retailers have set a highly competitive pace for fulfillment and delivery with heavily automated warehouses. Across […]
Michelle Gonzalez to lead M12
We’re proud to welcome Michelle Gonzalez as the new corporate vice president and global head of M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. “Michelle’s deep and diverse experience in corporate venture capital and startup incubation—as well as her passion for people management and workplace inclusion—are among the reasons she will lead M12 with purpose and impact,” said Chris Young, […]
M12 Manufacturing Summit: Futureproofing the Enterprise
From the COVID pandemic to the Ever Given’s mishap in the Suez Canal, recent shocks to the global supply chain have demonstrated that the need for resilience is greater than ever. The turmoil and uncertainty of the last year-plus exposed serious risks and vulnerabilities, with automakers like Ford and GM warning of complete shutdowns and […]
Welcoming BVCC Venture Fellow Damian Murray
We’re thrilled to welcome Black Venture Capital Consortium (BVCC) Venture Fellow Damian Murray to M12 for a summer internship. Damian’s professional background includes working with early-stage startups and developing innovation and entrepreneurship programs for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). His partnership with Black founders and experience supporting startup crowdfunding efforts motivated Damian […]
M12 portfolio companies empower developers at Microsoft Build
Microsoft Build 2021 is a digital, three-day event to help developers expand their skillsets, find technical solutions, and better understand challenges on the horizon. Attendees have access to over 250 sessions on everything from building cloud-native applications, to data and AI capabilities, to collaborative apps for the hybrid workplace. Featured speakers including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and EVP of Cloud + […]
Welcoming NextBillion.ai to the M12 portfolio
We’re thrilled to welcome NextBillion.ai—a leading geospatial data platform—to the M12 portfolio with their latest funding milestone. Location intelligence is core to an increasing number of customer scenarios—whether you’re providing an ETA for a rideshare car, tracking the location of a package on an 18-wheeler, or routing a pizza delivery in dense city traffic on […]
Welcoming Artificial to the M12 portfolio
We’re thrilled to welcome Artificial—a software company building a first-of-its-kind lab automation platform—to the M12 portfolio as lead of their Series A round. Biology research labs have yet to have their Industrial and Digital Revolutions. When I started my academic research career at the National Institutes of Health 21 years ago and my biopharmaceutical career at Novartis 15 […]
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 1910 Genetics to the M12 Portfolio
We are thrilled to welcome 1910 Genetics (1910) to the M12 portfolio. 1910 is a biotechnology company that is integrating AI, computation, and biology lab automation with a core mission to discover and develop many highly needed therapies and get them to patients faster. Drug discovery is in the early stages of evolving from the Industrial Age to the […]
Rescale raises $50 million to provide high-performance Infrastructure-as-a-Service to enterprises
