M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund

M12 - Microsoft’s venture fund, invests in early-stage enterprise software companies with a focus on AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical SaaS, and Web3/Gaming. Since 2016, M12 has invested in over 100 companies, helping startups accelerate growth with unparalleled access to Microsoft.

Past deals in Developer Tools

Nuon

Series A in 2024
Nuon is a developer of cloud applications that enables businesses to operate their software on customers' cloud accounts. The company focuses on creating fully self-managing cloud environments by handling the deployment, updates, and ongoing management of operations. This approach provides businesses with a control plane that allows application builders to debug applications, access logs, monitor metrics, and receive alerts. Additionally, Nuon's platform facilitates the execution of operational commands in a secure and auditable manner, ensuring the integrity of customer data from a centralized dashboard.

Evinced

Series C in 2024
Evinced is a provider of end-to-end accessibility automation services that assists enterprises in making their web and mobile applications accessible to all users. The company offers AI-enabled tools designed to help developers and accessibility professionals automatically identify, cluster, and track accessibility issues, significantly reducing the need for manual audits. By integrating its proprietary discovery and analysis algorithms directly into software development pipelines, Evinced enables organizations to incorporate accessibility throughout the development process. This not only minimizes risk but also expedites time to market, allowing companies to enhance their accessibility efforts efficiently.

Conduktor

Series B in 2024
Conduktor offers a unified platform for managing operational data streams, enhancing security, governance, and efficiency. It serves prominent enterprises in the US and Europe, such as Capital Group, Lufthansa, and Honda.

Builder.io

Venture Round in 2024
Builder.io is a visual development platform that combines a visual CMS, a headless CMS, and a design-to-code workflow to help digital teams create, manage, and optimize content and experiences. The platform provides a drag-and-drop visual editor, a visual CMS for content management, and tools to customize and reimagine Shopify storefronts and other digital experiences. It supports composable commerce, modern marketing sites, and multi-brand experiences, enabling business users and developers to streamline content development, speed up production, and reduce reliance on traditional development release cycles. By uniting an AI-assisted design-to-code tool with a high-velocity workflow, it helps teams improve visuals, measure conversions, and understand visitor behavior and performance. The company is based in San Francisco and focuses on speeding from idea to production while maintaining flexibility and consistency across digital experiences.

Mermaid Chart

Seed Round in 2024
Mermaid Chart is a developer of a digital visualization tool aimed at enhancing the diagramming capabilities of enterprise teams. The company focuses on simplifying the creation of complex diagrams by utilizing markdown-like text definitions, allowing users to generate and modify visual representations without the cumbersome design layers typically associated with traditional diagramming software. This innovative approach promotes collaboration among team members, enabling them to effectively convey complex information through dynamic, text-based diagrams. By prioritizing ease of use and functionality, Mermaid Chart seeks to transform how enterprise teams visualize and communicate their ideas.

Unstructured

Series A in 2023
Unstructured is a developer of an open-source data transformation platform that simplifies the process of converting raw data, such as PDFs and Microsoft Office documents, into formats compatible with language models. The platform supports over 25 file types, including PDF, DOC, and PPTX, and offers connectors to various systems like SharePoint, S3, and Databricks. By facilitating effortless data extraction and integration into AI workflows, Unstructured enhances the accessibility of human-generated information, ensuring that it is readily available for generative AI systems. Its modular architecture allows users to incorporate any third-party model, making it a versatile solution for preprocessing natural language data for machine learning applications.

ToolJet

Venture Round in 2023
ToolJet is an open-source low-code framework designed for the rapid development and deployment of custom internal tools. The platform streamlines the creation of these tools by utilizing pre-built components, allowing users to build effective solutions in minutes. ToolJet's capabilities include connecting to various databases, services, cloud storage, and custom API endpoints, enabling users to easily fetch data and perform actions without extensive engineering effort. By simplifying the process, ToolJet empowers organizations to create tailored internal applications efficiently.

env0

Series A in 2023
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company provides a cloud management platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. Designed to empower various teams, including developers, site reliability engineers, and data scientists, env0 facilitates the transition of complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. Its platform supports self-service capabilities while ensuring comprehensive governance and cost control across major cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, env0 offers customized environments for specialized tasks and facilitates end-to-end testing for each pull request, ultimately enhancing productivity and reducing operational costs.

Evinced

Series B in 2022
Evinced is a provider of end-to-end accessibility automation services that assists enterprises in making their web and mobile applications accessible to all users. The company offers AI-enabled tools designed to help developers and accessibility professionals automatically identify, cluster, and track accessibility issues, significantly reducing the need for manual audits. By integrating its proprietary discovery and analysis algorithms directly into software development pipelines, Evinced enables organizations to incorporate accessibility throughout the development process. This not only minimizes risk but also expedites time to market, allowing companies to enhance their accessibility efforts efficiently.

Code Ocean

Series B in 2022
Code Ocean is a cloud-based platform that enables researchers and developers to share, discover, and run code and data associated with academic publications. The service provides an end-to-end workflow for reproducible research, allowing users to deposit code, data, and dependencies into a self-contained compute capsule that can be accessed and executed in the cloud without installing software locally. By centralizing code, data, and computational history, the platform supports transparency and reuse, helping researchers validate results and build on prior work. It serves researchers, institutions, and publishers and supports collaboration from project initiation to publication, with compute resources such as CPUs and GPUs available to execute analyses in a standardized, shareable environment. Code Ocean was founded in 2015 and is based in New York.

Kooply

Seed Round in 2022
Kooply is a mobile gaming development platform that connects players, creators, and developers within a mobile-centric community. The company aims to empower creators by providing them with tools and resources to build games collaboratively, addressing key industry challenges such as game development, art, monetization, and distribution. Through its innovative approach, Kooply fosters an environment where creators can leverage the support of a community of gamers and developers, enhancing the overall gaming experience while driving engagement and creativity in the mobile gaming industry.

Rapid

Series D in 2022
Rapid Software Solutions Ltd. is a technology company based in Haifa, Israel, specializing in software applications and Software-as-a-Service solutions. The firm is known for its RapidAPI Hub, which is the largest API hub globally, allowing over 4 million developers to discover, evaluate, and integrate more than 40,000 APIs from prominent providers. Rapid also offers a comprehensive development platform called RapidAPI Studio, enabling developers to design, develop, test, monitor, and publish their APIs seamlessly. For enterprise clients, the company provides RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a customizable platform that facilitates the management and connection of both internal and external APIs. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Rapid aims to support modern developers by streamlining access to essential API resources.

Split Software

Series D in 2021
Split Software, Inc. is a feature delivery platform that enables engineering teams to enhance software development processes and deliver impactful products. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with additional offices in Boston and Argentina, Split provides solutions for feature release, customer targeting, and experience measurement. The platform integrates feature flags with data analytics to help teams measure the impact of each feature, thereby reducing development cycle times and minimizing release risks. It supports various operational needs, including continuous delivery, migration to microservices, and performance testing in production environments. Notable clients include Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay, who utilize Split's tools to foster a data-driven culture within their organizations.

env0

Series A in 2021
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company provides a cloud management platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. Designed to empower various teams, including developers, site reliability engineers, and data scientists, env0 facilitates the transition of complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. Its platform supports self-service capabilities while ensuring comprehensive governance and cost control across major cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, env0 offers customized environments for specialized tasks and facilitates end-to-end testing for each pull request, ultimately enhancing productivity and reducing operational costs.

Rapid

Series C in 2021
Rapid Software Solutions Ltd. is a technology company based in Haifa, Israel, specializing in software applications and Software-as-a-Service solutions. The firm is known for its RapidAPI Hub, which is the largest API hub globally, allowing over 4 million developers to discover, evaluate, and integrate more than 40,000 APIs from prominent providers. Rapid also offers a comprehensive development platform called RapidAPI Studio, enabling developers to design, develop, test, monitor, and publish their APIs seamlessly. For enterprise clients, the company provides RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a customizable platform that facilitates the management and connection of both internal and external APIs. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Rapid aims to support modern developers by streamlining access to essential API resources.

Mend

Series D in 2021
Mend specializes in open-source software (OSS) lifecycle management solutions, offering a comprehensive cloud-based platform designed to manage the OSS lifecycle effectively. Their flagship product integrates seamlessly with development environments and DevOps pipelines, enabling real-time detection of open-source libraries that may pose security or compliance risks. Mend provides actionable remediation paths to resolve identified issues quickly and enforces automated policies to streamline the fixing process. The platform supports over 200 programming languages and continuously monitors multiple open-source vulnerability databases, ensuring that users are informed of potential risks while minimizing false positives. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Mend maintains additional offices in Boston, Givatayim, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Codefresh

Series C in 2021
Founded in 2014, Codefresh simplifies software development by providing a cloud-based application user interface. It automates interactions with tools like git commands, code review, CI/CD pipelines, testing, deployment, and monitoring. The platform supports modern applications, offering features such as lightning-fast builds, Canary deployments, Blue/Green GitOps, and self-service deployment tools.

Evinced

Series A in 2021
Evinced is a provider of end-to-end accessibility automation services that assists enterprises in making their web and mobile applications accessible to all users. The company offers AI-enabled tools designed to help developers and accessibility professionals automatically identify, cluster, and track accessibility issues, significantly reducing the need for manual audits. By integrating its proprietary discovery and analysis algorithms directly into software development pipelines, Evinced enables organizations to incorporate accessibility throughout the development process. This not only minimizes risk but also expedites time to market, allowing companies to enhance their accessibility efforts efficiently.

Split Software

Series C in 2020
Split Software, Inc. is a feature delivery platform that enables engineering teams to enhance software development processes and deliver impactful products. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with additional offices in Boston and Argentina, Split provides solutions for feature release, customer targeting, and experience measurement. The platform integrates feature flags with data analytics to help teams measure the impact of each feature, thereby reducing development cycle times and minimizing release risks. It supports various operational needs, including continuous delivery, migration to microservices, and performance testing in production environments. Notable clients include Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay, who utilize Split's tools to foster a data-driven culture within their organizations.

Pachyderm

Series B in 2020
Pachyderm, Inc., founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing software for deploying and managing multi-stage, language-agnostic data pipelines. The company's platform provides data lineage to track the entire machine learning development lifecycle and supports end-to-end data science workflows. Pachyderm offers an enterprise-grade, open-source data science platform that ensures explainable, repeatable, and scalable ML/AI processes. Its solutions include version control for data, tools for building scalable pipelines, and support for any language, framework, or tool. The company provides a free, open-source version of its platform, as well as enterprise and hub versions tailored to specific needs.

env0

Funding Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company provides a cloud management platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. Designed to empower various teams, including developers, site reliability engineers, and data scientists, env0 facilitates the transition of complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. Its platform supports self-service capabilities while ensuring comprehensive governance and cost control across major cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, env0 offers customized environments for specialized tasks and facilitates end-to-end testing for each pull request, ultimately enhancing productivity and reducing operational costs.

Codefresh

Series C in 2020
Founded in 2014, Codefresh simplifies software development by providing a cloud-based application user interface. It automates interactions with tools like git commands, code review, CI/CD pipelines, testing, deployment, and monitoring. The platform supports modern applications, offering features such as lightning-fast builds, Canary deployments, Blue/Green GitOps, and self-service deployment tools.

Rapid

Series B in 2020
Rapid Software Solutions Ltd. is a technology company based in Haifa, Israel, specializing in software applications and Software-as-a-Service solutions. The firm is known for its RapidAPI Hub, which is the largest API hub globally, allowing over 4 million developers to discover, evaluate, and integrate more than 40,000 APIs from prominent providers. Rapid also offers a comprehensive development platform called RapidAPI Studio, enabling developers to design, develop, test, monitor, and publish their APIs seamlessly. For enterprise clients, the company provides RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a customizable platform that facilitates the management and connection of both internal and external APIs. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Rapid aims to support modern developers by streamlining access to essential API resources.

Rapid

Series B in 2019
Rapid Software Solutions Ltd. is a technology company based in Haifa, Israel, specializing in software applications and Software-as-a-Service solutions. The firm is known for its RapidAPI Hub, which is the largest API hub globally, allowing over 4 million developers to discover, evaluate, and integrate more than 40,000 APIs from prominent providers. Rapid also offers a comprehensive development platform called RapidAPI Studio, enabling developers to design, develop, test, monitor, and publish their APIs seamlessly. For enterprise clients, the company provides RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a customizable platform that facilitates the management and connection of both internal and external APIs. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Rapid aims to support modern developers by streamlining access to essential API resources.

Mend

Series C in 2018
Mend specializes in open-source software (OSS) lifecycle management solutions, offering a comprehensive cloud-based platform designed to manage the OSS lifecycle effectively. Their flagship product integrates seamlessly with development environments and DevOps pipelines, enabling real-time detection of open-source libraries that may pose security or compliance risks. Mend provides actionable remediation paths to resolve identified issues quickly and enforces automated policies to streamline the fixing process. The platform supports over 200 programming languages and continuously monitors multiple open-source vulnerability databases, ensuring that users are informed of potential risks while minimizing false positives. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Mend maintains additional offices in Boston, Givatayim, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Codefresh

Series B in 2018
Founded in 2014, Codefresh simplifies software development by providing a cloud-based application user interface. It automates interactions with tools like git commands, code review, CI/CD pipelines, testing, deployment, and monitoring. The platform supports modern applications, offering features such as lightning-fast builds, Canary deployments, Blue/Green GitOps, and self-service deployment tools.

Mend

Series B in 2017
Mend specializes in open-source software (OSS) lifecycle management solutions, offering a comprehensive cloud-based platform designed to manage the OSS lifecycle effectively. Their flagship product integrates seamlessly with development environments and DevOps pipelines, enabling real-time detection of open-source libraries that may pose security or compliance risks. Mend provides actionable remediation paths to resolve identified issues quickly and enforces automated policies to streamline the fixing process. The platform supports over 200 programming languages and continuously monitors multiple open-source vulnerability databases, ensuring that users are informed of potential risks while minimizing false positives. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Mend maintains additional offices in Boston, Givatayim, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
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