M12

M12, the venture capital arm of Microsoft, focuses on investing in early-stage and growth-stage technology companies, primarily in North America and Israel. Established in 2012 and based in Seattle, with additional offices in other regions, M12 targets investments in sectors such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and enterprise software. The firm typically invests between $50,000 and $300,000 in companies across Series A to C. M12 also operates an accelerator program tailored for later-stage startups, offering a four to six-month curriculum and co-working space in Seattle. The firm aims to support startups that are innovating in technology and seeks to invest in accelerators as well.

Ahmed Deyab

Investor

Hina Dixit

Partner

Priyanka Mitra

Partner

Andrew Smyth

Managing Partner

James Wu

Partner

Past deals in Big Data

d-Matrix

Series A in 2022
d-Matrix is a computing platform designed to target artificial intelligence inferencing workloads in the data center. Its mission is to build and deploy the world’s first brain-inspired AI compute engine for a broad class of inferencing workloads in the multi-billion dollar cloud and infrastructure edge markets.

Karlsgate

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a data collaboration software designed to maintain custody of data without revealing the identities of data subjects. The company's platform matches data anonymously on the fly using patent-pending crypto identity technology and deterministic cascading match algorithms, enabling brands, agencies, and data providers to share consumer insights with strong identity protection.

Wallaroo

Series A in 2022
Wallaroo is a developer of a cloud-based data processing platform designed to streamline the deployment of real-time applications. The company focuses on simplifying the challenges associated with infrastructure, allowing for quick iteration and testing of machine learning and analytics projects. Its software is capable of handling large volumes of data while remaining agnostic to infrastructure and scale. This flexibility enables data engineers, architects, and infrastructure providers to enhance various applications, including outpatient monitoring, real-time bidding, and risk profiling. Ultimately, Wallaroo aims to help organizations turn data into actionable business results more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Prevedere

Venture Round in 2022
Prevedere is a company that specializes in predictive analytics and industry insights, aiding business leaders in making informed decisions by offering a real-time perspective on future performance. Unlike traditional methods that focus solely on internal metrics, Prevedere’s platform continuously monitors external data, such as economic and consumer behavior trends, to identify potential opportunities and threats to business performance. By leveraging advanced forecasting software and a team of experts, including data scientists and economists, Prevedere enables organizations to understand key leading indicators that influence revenue and profitability. The company has received several accolades for its innovative approach and effective solutions, working with prominent global enterprises to enhance their strategic decision-making capabilities.

Innovaccer

Series E in 2021
Innovaccer Inc. is a technology company focused on improving healthcare delivery through data activation and analytics. Its comprehensive platform aggregates and analyzes patient data from various sources, including electronic health records and medical devices, facilitating better communication and collaboration among healthcare teams. Innovaccer offers a range of solutions, including Datashop, which provides healthcare companies with tools for patient care management, financial operations optimization, and clinical workflow enhancement. The platform has been recognized for its effectiveness and is deployed in over 500 locations across the United States, supporting more than 10,000 healthcare providers. Innovaccer also serves diverse sectors beyond healthcare, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, and academic research. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Noida, India, with additional offices in the United States, the company has established partnerships with various institutions and organizations to drive innovation in care delivery.

Growthspace

Series A in 2021
At GrowthSpace, we believe that the future of Learning and Development is data-driven, measurable, and personalized for every employee. By combining the world’s most robust dataset and our network of global experts, we are able to help employees and teams achieve their professional goals and business KPIs at scale. Select from short growth sprints, group meetings, or lectures where employees can upskill, work on personal challenges, and improve their core competencies. There truly is greatness in every employee, GrowthSpace just helps bring it out.

Incorta

Series D in 2021
Incorta, Inc. is a data analytics company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2013. It offers a unified platform designed to address complex data analytics challenges faced by enterprises. Incorta's Direct Data Platform enables organizations to acquire, enrich, analyze, and act on business data with exceptional speed and simplicity. The platform leverages a direct data mapping engine that enhances query performance, eliminates the need for costly join operations, and significantly reduces the time required to deploy new analytics applications. Incorta serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 5 to Global 2000 companies, providing real-time operational analytics, embedded analytics, and dashboards tailored for various business needs. The company is backed by prominent investors such as GV, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Telstra Ventures, and Sorenson Capital, and its solutions are utilized by major brands like Broadcom, Vitamix, Equinix, and Credit Suisse.

Databook

Series A in 2021
Databook Labs Inc. is an enterprise customer intelligence platform that enhances sales productivity and performance for organizations. Founded in 2015 and based in Palo Alto, California, Databook offers a range of tools including an intent dashboard, real-time insights, and customizable sales decks. These tools enable sales teams to prioritize accounts effectively, understand customer needs, and deliver tailored content quickly. By connecting solutions to customers' specific board-level initiatives, Databook helps organizations align their sales strategies with client outcomes, ultimately improving marketing-to-sales performance while reducing costs. Its web and iOS applications support data-driven selling and consulting, providing insights, metrics, and news relevant to both customers and clients.

Innovaccer

Series D in 2021
Innovaccer Inc. is a technology company focused on improving healthcare delivery through data activation and analytics. Its comprehensive platform aggregates and analyzes patient data from various sources, including electronic health records and medical devices, facilitating better communication and collaboration among healthcare teams. Innovaccer offers a range of solutions, including Datashop, which provides healthcare companies with tools for patient care management, financial operations optimization, and clinical workflow enhancement. The platform has been recognized for its effectiveness and is deployed in over 500 locations across the United States, supporting more than 10,000 healthcare providers. Innovaccer also serves diverse sectors beyond healthcare, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, and academic research. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Noida, India, with additional offices in the United States, the company has established partnerships with various institutions and organizations to drive innovation in care delivery.

Pachyderm

Series B in 2020
Pachyderm, Inc. is a software company that specializes in developing a data engineering platform for managing complex, multi-stage data pipelines. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Pachyderm's platform facilitates the automation of data processes while ensuring reproducibility and data lineage throughout the machine learning development lifecycle. It offers a unique architecture that supports version control for data, allowing users to build scalable and language-agnostic machine learning and ETL workflows. The company's solutions include a free open-source version, an enterprise version, and a hub version, providing flexibility for users to choose the best fit for their needs. By enabling automatic scaling and parallel processing, Pachyderm empowers data science teams to work with any language, framework, or tool, making it an effective choice for sophisticated data transformations.

CognitiveScale

Series B in 2020
CognitiveScale is a provider of enterprise Cognitive Cloud™ software, a new class of big data interpretation and machine learning systems, which accelerate decision making, enhance customer engagement and improve employee productivity. CognitiveScale's industry and enterprise optimized cognitive processes and applications for healthcare, commerce, employee service, and procurement deliver Insights as a Service powered by our Insights Fabric™ Cognitive Cloud platform. Continuously learning, CognitiveScale's Deep Cognition technology uses advanced machine intelligence to transform massive amounts of multi-structured data, including text, images, sensor data, video and “dark data,” into cognitive insights that prescribe contextual action to end users and businesses.

Innovaccer

Series C in 2020
Innovaccer Inc. is a technology company focused on improving healthcare delivery through data activation and analytics. Its comprehensive platform aggregates and analyzes patient data from various sources, including electronic health records and medical devices, facilitating better communication and collaboration among healthcare teams. Innovaccer offers a range of solutions, including Datashop, which provides healthcare companies with tools for patient care management, financial operations optimization, and clinical workflow enhancement. The platform has been recognized for its effectiveness and is deployed in over 500 locations across the United States, supporting more than 10,000 healthcare providers. Innovaccer also serves diverse sectors beyond healthcare, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, and academic research. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Noida, India, with additional offices in the United States, the company has established partnerships with various institutions and organizations to drive innovation in care delivery.

Hazy

Seed Round in 2020
Hazy Limited is a London-based company that specializes in automatic data anonymization using artificial intelligence. Incorporated in 2017, Hazy develops a platform that generates synthetic data, which retains the statistical properties of real datasets while ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of personal information. This innovative approach allows businesses to share and utilize data for analytics and innovation without the risks associated with compliance and security breaches. By capturing patterns from raw data, Hazy creates entirely synthetic datasets that provide the statistical value of the original data, enabling data-centric organizations to unlock their data potential more safely and efficiently. Hazy is recognized as a spin-out from University College London and has garnered backing from prominent partners such as Microsoft and Nationwide.

Incorta

Series C in 2019
Incorta, Inc. is a data analytics company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2013. It offers a unified platform designed to address complex data analytics challenges faced by enterprises. Incorta's Direct Data Platform enables organizations to acquire, enrich, analyze, and act on business data with exceptional speed and simplicity. The platform leverages a direct data mapping engine that enhances query performance, eliminates the need for costly join operations, and significantly reduces the time required to deploy new analytics applications. Incorta serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 5 to Global 2000 companies, providing real-time operational analytics, embedded analytics, and dashboards tailored for various business needs. The company is backed by prominent investors such as GV, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Telstra Ventures, and Sorenson Capital, and its solutions are utilized by major brands like Broadcom, Vitamix, Equinix, and Credit Suisse.

Unravel

Series C in 2019
Unravel Data Systems, Inc. is a company that specializes in enterprise-grade performance management software for big data applications. Founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, Unravel Data provides an AI-powered platform that enables users to analyze and optimize their data applications and clusters. This full-stack solution supports various big data systems, including Hadoop and Spark, and is designed for both on-premise and cloud environments. The platform enhances reliability and performance, maximizes cost savings across storage and compute resources, and boosts productivity in a self-service DataOps setting. Unravel Data serves a diverse clientele, including several Fortune 500 companies, by offering tools for monitoring, managing, and simplifying data pipelines while delivering actionable insights for performance improvement.

Innovaccer

Series B in 2019
Innovaccer Inc. is a technology company focused on improving healthcare delivery through data activation and analytics. Its comprehensive platform aggregates and analyzes patient data from various sources, including electronic health records and medical devices, facilitating better communication and collaboration among healthcare teams. Innovaccer offers a range of solutions, including Datashop, which provides healthcare companies with tools for patient care management, financial operations optimization, and clinical workflow enhancement. The platform has been recognized for its effectiveness and is deployed in over 500 locations across the United States, supporting more than 10,000 healthcare providers. Innovaccer also serves diverse sectors beyond healthcare, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, and academic research. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Noida, India, with additional offices in the United States, the company has established partnerships with various institutions and organizations to drive innovation in care delivery.

Incorta

Series B in 2018
Incorta, Inc. is a data analytics company based in San Mateo, California, founded in 2013. It offers a unified platform designed to address complex data analytics challenges faced by enterprises. Incorta's Direct Data Platform enables organizations to acquire, enrich, analyze, and act on business data with exceptional speed and simplicity. The platform leverages a direct data mapping engine that enhances query performance, eliminates the need for costly join operations, and significantly reduces the time required to deploy new analytics applications. Incorta serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 5 to Global 2000 companies, providing real-time operational analytics, embedded analytics, and dashboards tailored for various business needs. The company is backed by prominent investors such as GV, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Telstra Ventures, and Sorenson Capital, and its solutions are utilized by major brands like Broadcom, Vitamix, Equinix, and Credit Suisse.

Twenty Billion Neurons

Series A in 2018
Twenty Billion Neurons (TwentyBN) is an AI startup that builds intelligent avatars that are redefining the way AI interacts with humans.Having built the world's first A.I. avatar, named Millie, that can see, understand, and interact with consumers in real time, TwentyBN is offering a range of life-sized, intelligent avatars that can assume various roles, including greeter, brand ambassador, personal trainer, office assistant and more.

Scuba

Venture Round in 2018
Interana Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a behavioral discovery and analysis platform. This platform allows users to investigate digital behavior, enabling data analysts and product managers to enhance onboarding experiences and feature utilization. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Interana also has locations in Dallas, Texas, and Bellevue, Washington. The company's technology is designed to analyze vast amounts of data quickly, helping organizations understand customer behavior and product usage effectively.

Hazy

Seed Round in 2018
Hazy Limited is a London-based company that specializes in automatic data anonymization using artificial intelligence. Incorporated in 2017, Hazy develops a platform that generates synthetic data, which retains the statistical properties of real datasets while ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of personal information. This innovative approach allows businesses to share and utilize data for analytics and innovation without the risks associated with compliance and security breaches. By capturing patterns from raw data, Hazy creates entirely synthetic datasets that provide the statistical value of the original data, enabling data-centric organizations to unlock their data potential more safely and efficiently. Hazy is recognized as a spin-out from University College London and has garnered backing from prominent partners such as Microsoft and Nationwide.

CognitiveScale

Series B in 2018
CognitiveScale is a provider of enterprise Cognitive Cloud™ software, a new class of big data interpretation and machine learning systems, which accelerate decision making, enhance customer engagement and improve employee productivity. CognitiveScale's industry and enterprise optimized cognitive processes and applications for healthcare, commerce, employee service, and procurement deliver Insights as a Service powered by our Insights Fabric™ Cognitive Cloud platform. Continuously learning, CognitiveScale's Deep Cognition technology uses advanced machine intelligence to transform massive amounts of multi-structured data, including text, images, sensor data, video and “dark data,” into cognitive insights that prescribe contextual action to end users and businesses.

Unravel

Series B in 2018
Unravel Data Systems, Inc. is a company that specializes in enterprise-grade performance management software for big data applications. Founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, Unravel Data provides an AI-powered platform that enables users to analyze and optimize their data applications and clusters. This full-stack solution supports various big data systems, including Hadoop and Spark, and is designed for both on-premise and cloud environments. The platform enhances reliability and performance, maximizes cost savings across storage and compute resources, and boosts productivity in a self-service DataOps setting. Unravel Data serves a diverse clientele, including several Fortune 500 companies, by offering tools for monitoring, managing, and simplifying data pipelines while delivering actionable insights for performance improvement.

CognitiveScale

Funding Round in 2017
CognitiveScale is a provider of enterprise Cognitive Cloud™ software, a new class of big data interpretation and machine learning systems, which accelerate decision making, enhance customer engagement and improve employee productivity. CognitiveScale's industry and enterprise optimized cognitive processes and applications for healthcare, commerce, employee service, and procurement deliver Insights as a Service powered by our Insights Fabric™ Cognitive Cloud platform. Continuously learning, CognitiveScale's Deep Cognition technology uses advanced machine intelligence to transform massive amounts of multi-structured data, including text, images, sensor data, video and “dark data,” into cognitive insights that prescribe contextual action to end users and businesses.

Figure Eight

Venture Round in 2017
Figure Eight Inc. is a developer of a human-in-the-loop machine learning platform that specializes in creating customized, high-quality training data for various applications. Founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, the platform transforms text, image, audio, and video data to support a wide range of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, intelligent chatbots, and computer vision. It employs machine learning-assisted annotation solutions to produce training data at enterprise scale, having generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight serves diverse industries such as automotive, healthcare, finance, and technology, facilitating tasks like video object tracking, sentiment analysis, and document transcription. The platform's capabilities enable data science teams to enhance the performance of their models in practical scenarios.

Bonsai

Series A in 2017
Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems. By completely automating the management of complex machine learning libraries and algorithms, Bonsai enables enterprises to program AI models that improve system control and enhance real-time decision support. Businesses use these models today to increase automation and improve operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities. Based in Berkeley, CA, Bonsai is backed by leading investors including NEA, Microsoft Ventures, ABB, Samsung NEXT and Siemens.

Prevedere

Series B in 2017
Prevedere is a company that specializes in predictive analytics and industry insights, aiding business leaders in making informed decisions by offering a real-time perspective on future performance. Unlike traditional methods that focus solely on internal metrics, Prevedere’s platform continuously monitors external data, such as economic and consumer behavior trends, to identify potential opportunities and threats to business performance. By leveraging advanced forecasting software and a team of experts, including data scientists and economists, Prevedere enables organizations to understand key leading indicators that influence revenue and profitability. The company has received several accolades for its innovative approach and effective solutions, working with prominent global enterprises to enhance their strategic decision-making capabilities.

Paxata

Series D in 2016
Paxata, Inc. provides adaptive data preparation platform that delivers raw data to ready data for business analysts in the United States and internationally. Its platform enables users to connect, explore, transform, and combine data on their own or work with peers in a shared and transparent environment as they shape data for analytics. The company also provides Data Time Machine, a cloud-based data governance solution that provides security, versioning, and usage visibility; and Adaptive Information Platform, a self-service information platform for Microsoft Azure. Paxata, Inc. has a strategic relationship with Cisco. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. As of December 12, 2019, Paxata, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of DataRobot, Inc.

CognitiveScale

Series B in 2016
CognitiveScale is a provider of enterprise Cognitive Cloud™ software, a new class of big data interpretation and machine learning systems, which accelerate decision making, enhance customer engagement and improve employee productivity. CognitiveScale's industry and enterprise optimized cognitive processes and applications for healthcare, commerce, employee service, and procurement deliver Insights as a Service powered by our Insights Fabric™ Cognitive Cloud platform. Continuously learning, CognitiveScale's Deep Cognition technology uses advanced machine intelligence to transform massive amounts of multi-structured data, including text, images, sensor data, video and “dark data,” into cognitive insights that prescribe contextual action to end users and businesses.

Figure Eight

Series D in 2016
Figure Eight Inc. is a developer of a human-in-the-loop machine learning platform that specializes in creating customized, high-quality training data for various applications. Founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, the platform transforms text, image, audio, and video data to support a wide range of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, intelligent chatbots, and computer vision. It employs machine learning-assisted annotation solutions to produce training data at enterprise scale, having generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight serves diverse industries such as automotive, healthcare, finance, and technology, facilitating tasks like video object tracking, sentiment analysis, and document transcription. The platform's capabilities enable data science teams to enhance the performance of their models in practical scenarios.

CloudLanes

Seed Round in 2016
CloudLanes, Inc. specializes in cloud data management, offering a platform that facilitates seamless data movement from on-premises environments to any cloud, as well as between different cloud services. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company provides a range of products, including the Cloud Data Platform and Cloud Storage Gateway, which allows clients to securely ingest and transfer various types of data, such as backup, video surveillance, and healthcare information. In addition, CloudLanes offers services like Cloud Integrated Backup, Data Protection, and Cloud Integrated Video Archiving. The company serves a diverse clientele across several industries, including education, healthcare, media, and local government. As of mid-2019, CloudLanes operates as a subsidiary of Druva Inc. and has been backed by investors such as Cervin Ventures and Microsoft Ventures.
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