We are thrilled to announce that we have led a $25 million #funding round for Neon, a serverless Postgres #database designed for modern #developers, alongside existing investors Abstract Ventures, General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, and Notable Capital. Read more in the TechCrunch exclusive from Kyle Wiggers here: https://lnkd.in/gwE-e4Yc #cloudinfrasturcture #startup #cvc
M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco, California 40,020 followers
We accelerate the future of technology through investments, insights, and meaningful partnership with Microsoft.
About us
M12 is Microsoft’s corporate venture capital fund. We invest across key focus areas in the most promising early-stage companies that are disrupting markets in the business of today and tomorrow.
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http://m12.vc
External link for M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Public Company
- Founded
- 2016
- Specialties
- venture capital, VC, investing, technology, corporate venture capital, cloud infrastructure, AI, ML, Business SaaS, communication, productivity, big data, analytics, and security
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San Francisco, California, US
Employees at M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund
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The news is out! We are thrilled to announce a strategic investment from M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund. As enterprises rush to adopt enterprise copilots and low-code development platforms, such as Microsoft’s own offerings of Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, and Fabric, it is the first time that business users are at the forefront of, and in control of, business application and AI development. The responsibility falls to security teams, not the platform providers, to go deep to identify all the apps, copilots, and bots being created, and assess them for risk; something that Zenity directly addresses with its SaaS platform. Zenity CEO Ben Kliger states, "We are excited to be partnering with M12 to continue our mission of helping enterprises securely unleash the use of AI copilots and low-code development... This investment allows us to leverage Microsoft’s resources to accelerate our growth and work closely on a joint go-to-market strategy, enhancing the security and success of our mutual customers." Read the full release here! 👇🏻
Zenity Announces Strategic Investment Led by M12
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🔗 https://lnkd.in/ejUeYk2G Carli Stein recently spoke with Terra Nova about the major shifts in #AI technology. Key highlights include: 🔶 Smaller AI Models: New architectures beyond transformers are enabling smaller, cost-effective AI models that offer lower latency, reduced training costs, and better real-time performance 🔶 Enterprise Challenges and Opportunities: High costs, security concerns, and inadequate testing infrastructure are current barriers for AI adoption in enterprises. 🔶 Emerging Trends: Open source projects like Microsoft’s Phi models are driving advancements in AI infrastructure, making smaller models more viable.
M12’s Carli Stein: Catalyzers of the Next AI Era
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Zenity helps enterprises securely unleash the use of AI copilots and low-code development, and we're proud to help them do it! 👏 👏 👏 #Zenity #M12 #VentureCapital #VentureCapitalist #VC #Funding #PrivateEquity #Business #Entrepreneur #Entrepreneurship #Founder #InvestmentStrategy #Investment #Strategy #AngelInvestor #Technology #Tech #AI #genAI #Cybersecurity #Cybersec #Developer #DevOps #DevSecOps #SaaS #VerticalSaaS
The news is out! We are thrilled to announce a strategic investment from M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund. As enterprises rush to adopt enterprise copilots and low-code development platforms, such as Microsoft’s own offerings of Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, and Fabric, it is the first time that business users are at the forefront of, and in control of, business application and AI development. The responsibility falls to security teams, not the platform providers, to go deep to identify all the apps, copilots, and bots being created, and assess them for risk; something that Zenity directly addresses with its SaaS platform. Zenity CEO Ben Kliger states, "We are excited to be partnering with M12 to continue our mission of helping enterprises securely unleash the use of AI copilots and low-code development... This investment allows us to leverage Microsoft’s resources to accelerate our growth and work closely on a joint go-to-market strategy, enhancing the security and success of our mutual customers." Read the full release here! 👇🏻
Zenity Announces Strategic Investment Led by M12
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We're back with our #BetterTogether #casestudy series! BUT before we dive deeper into the ins & outs of our Split partnership...who are they & what do they do? ⬇ https://lnkd.in/g-h6gUcu #Split #VentureCapital #VentureCapitalist #VC #Funding #PrivateEquity #Business #Entrepreneur #Entrepreneurship #Founder #InvestmentStrategy #Investment #Strategy #AngelInvestor #Technology #Tech #DeveloperTools #Developer #DevOps
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Welcome to the inaugural edition of our #FoundersFeature blog series, where we sit down with the founders of some of the best businesses in #tech every month to learn more about the people behind the headlines and get a first-hand account of how they got started. Soak up all the learnings from Volley co-founders Max Child and James Wilsterman: ⬇ https://lnkd.in/gv4nacVw #Volley #M12 #Microsoft #VentureCapital #VentureCapitalist #VC #Funding #PrivateEquity #Business #Entrepreneur #Entrepreneurship #Founder #InvestmentStrategy #Investment #Strategy #AngelInvestor #Technology #Tech #AI #genAI #Developer #DevOps #Web3 #Gaming
Founders Feature: Volley - M12
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Watch to learn about our investment in Inworld AI, the best-funded #startup in #AI and #gaming, and how a partnership approach unlocked doors at Xbox and other game studios. https://lnkd.in/gnRA52Px #VentureCapital #VentureCapitalist #VC #Funding #PrivateEquity #Business #Entrepreneur #Entrepreneurship #Founder #InvestmentStrategy #Investment #Strategy #Technology #Tech #Developer #Gaming #M12 #Microsoft #Xbox #Inworld #InworldAI
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While #generativeAI in the cloud continues its evolution towards ever larger and more capable models that will run on global scale networks between datacenters, the issue of data gravity - where, how, and when data is created and resident, if it's used at all - becomes a kind of unifying force that will shape all applications, infrastructure, even hardware. Even though this concept isn't new, and it's been predicted for some time that AI must come to the data, a large number of factors have kept edge AI from being deployed as systematically and consistently as cloud-based services. For years, M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund has made successful investments in several parts of the #edgeAI tech stack, teaching us a little about what works and what doesn't. Reflecting on these lessons really helped us reach conviction on Armada. We think the team led by Dan Wright, Jon Runyan, and Pradeep Nair will be the first and leading player to bring AI in a packaged, end-to-end way, to industries and locations where access might be challenging, and deliver a seamless experience to customers who leverage both edge and cloud services. Congratulations to the Armada on this round and huge thank you to my M12 deal team, Carli Stein, Jose Clautier, and Peter B..
Exclusive: Armada lands $40 million in funding round led by Microsoft’s M12
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Managing Partner, Michael Stewart, shares 4 common themes of companies that succeed in getting noticed, building resilience, and achieving success - data, dividends, distribution, and delight. Read more: ⬇ https://lnkd.in/gjWeeGf4 #VentureCapital #VentureCapitalist #VC #Funding #PrivateEquity #Business #Entrepreneur #Entrepreneurship #Founder #InvestmentStrategy #Investment #Strategy #AngelInvestor #Technology #Tech #AI #genAI #CloudInfrastructure #Cloud #Cybersecurity #Cybersec #Developer #DevOps #DevSecOps #SaaS #VerticalSaaS #Web3 #Gaming
Competitive strategies in AI: Insights from an M12 managing partner | The Microsoft Cloud Blog
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I'm thrilled to announce our newest #gaming and #AI investment! Time to take the wraps off of Volley's $55M Series C co-led by M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund and Lightspeed, joined by General Catalyst, Causewayvc, the Amazon Alexa Fund, BITKRAFT Ventures, Y Combinator, Boost VC, Alumni Ventures, and others joining the round. I'll be joining the Board along with Moritz Baier-Lentz 🎮 from Lightspeed. Since its founding in 2016, Volley has led the market in creating voice-enabled games via voice AI platforms. With a userbase of millions that is still growing quickly, Volley has had success in monetizing LLM APIs in an interactive but fun setting related to gaming that leverages both the language synthesis abilities of the current wave of AI in a number of styles related to popular game shows, and the tailwinds of relentless progress in generative AI tooling that we've all seen over the last three years. We’re excited to partner with Volley as they follow their destiny towards creating a nexus for enjoyment and entertainment that increasingly will incorporate advanced multimodal LLM technology, via our M12 platform access to the world’s most advanced AI models, development tools, compute infrastructure, and largest distribution channels for users and enterprises alike. https://lnkd.in/gjzM69z9
Announcing Volley's $55M Series C
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