Bolster, creator of the CheckPhish phishing tracker, raises $14M led by Microsoft’s M12
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The Shadow IT Implications of AI
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As we kick off RSA in San Francisco this week, we wanted to talk about the shadow IT implications of AI. It’s a well traveled path: A new technology emerges to great excitement and fanfare. Companies and users rush to enjoy its benefits and cybercriminals close on their heels to exploit its unaddressed risks. Embarrassing […]
M12’s new head on OpenAI and its new strategic focus
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M12 co-leads HiddenLayer’s $50M Series A
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Why we invested in HiddenLayer’s vision of creating safer AI application
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We are excited to announce that M12 has co-led, with Moore Strategic Ventures, the $50 million Series A investment into HiddenLayer, an AI application security startup. This investment will enable them to expand their team, increase go-to-market efforts, and further invest in its award-winning Machine Learning Security (MLSec) Platform. But beyond this fantastic fundraise, here […]
M12 Leads $25M Series A for Valence Security.
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M12 Co-Leads Theom’s $16 million seed round to secure data in the cloud
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Karlsgate Raises $4M Seed Funding Round to Bring Zero Trust to Data Connectivity
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Hunters raises $68M Series C for cloud driven security operations platform
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Welcoming Truepic to the M12 portfolio
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I’m excited to welcome Truepic—the pioneer of provenance-based media authentication—to the M12 portfolio as lead of their Series B funding round. The rise of deepfakes and democratization of sophisticated image editing software have put both news outlets and technology companies under pressure to address the spread of disinformation and visual deception. A gamut of technologies, ranging […]