Shiri Hochhauser

Shiri is on the investment team at M12 based in the Tel Aviv office.

Shiri joined M12 from Microsoft’s global partner solutions division in the commercial organization where she owned the technical partnership with a portfolio of strategic software vendor partners across the Middle East and Africa. The portfolio included small startups and unicorns as well as global SaaS providers. Here she helped to establish strong alliances and complex integrations with a Microsoft solution stack. 

Shiri joined Microsoft Israel in 2018 as a Security Technical Specialist before moving to MEA HQ as a cloud solution architect where she led the technical track with targeted startups and unicorn list enabling them to migrate to Azure, handling complex compete scenarios with AWS & GCP all the way through architecture design and build with motions to publishing their 1st co-sell ready solution to the Azure Marketplace.

Prior to joining Microsoft Shiri spent 6 years hands on coding as a full stack developer for 2 of the largest FSI corporates in Israel.

Shiri is no stranger to public speaking, delivering sessions in key developer conferences in Israel including DevOpsDays TLV and CloudOps summit.

Shiri is passionate about having more women in Tech and entrepreneurship both on and off stage and is actively engaged in female tech communities and initiatives.