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. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, M12 targets startups involved in cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical software as a service, web3, and gaming. The firm typically invests between $50,000 and $300,000 in companies at various stages, from seed to Series C. In addition to direct investments, M12 runs an accelerator program that supports later-stage startups with tailored resources over a four to six-month period and provides co-working space for startups in the Seattle area.

Hina Dixit

Partner

Jason McBride

Partner

Priyanka Mitra

Partner

Michael Stewart Ph.D

Managing Partner

Past deals in Enterprise Software

NextBillion

Series B in 2022
Next Billion' goal is to highlight the development and implementation of business strategies that open opportunities.

Evisort

Series C in 2022
Evisort is an AI-powered platform that revolutionizes contract lifecycle management with enterprise-grade AI that connects contract data across critical business systems. It is a commitment to secure, reliable, and ethical AI. Their platform empowers teams to manage and analyze contracts intelligently, transforming legal challenges into strategic opportunities. By adopting Evisort, one can elevate document management and set a new standard for AI adoption.

Skedulo

Series C in 2021
Skedulo is the platform for intelligent mobile workforce management. The company's solution helps enterprises intelligently manage, schedule, dispatch, and track resources in the field. With native solutions that integrate seamlessly to Salesforce and ServiceNow, and its independent platform that connects to any system of record, Skedulo offers enterprises and mid-market companies a mobile workforce management product that complements any tech stack. Founded in 2013, headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in North America, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom, Skedulo has enabled over 150 companies to seamlessly schedule and service more than 5 million appointments all around the globe.

FarEye

Series E in 2021
FarEye’s AI-powered functionality optimizes end-to-end deliveries and provides recommendations driven by aggregation of insights. It empowers enterprises to gain real-time visibility, excel in the last mile, and deliver customer delight. FarEye has the vision to use aggregated data and real-time feedback to drive autonomous deliveries with autonomous vehicles and drones. With 17 Gartner mentions, DHL, Hilti, UPS, Gordon Foods, Zalora, and 150 plus customers have laid trust in FarEye as their partner of choice across 30 countries. FarEye is empowering global enterprises to shrink delivery time by up to 27%, increase courier productivity by up to 15%, eliminate risks by up to 57%, and ensure operational excellence

Mend

Series D in 2021
Mend (previously known as WhiteSource) founded in 2011, Mend is the first application security platform that actually automates the process of fixing application vulnerabilities. Mend takes most of the burden off the developer, who doesn’t really need to become a security expert. That’s why our motto is: You code, we cure. Mend is used by more than 1000 customers worldwide, from all verticals and sizes, including 23% of Fortune 100 companies, as well as industry leaders such as Microsoft, IBM, Comcast, and many more. For more information, please visit www.mend.io

Evisort

Series B in 2021
Evisort is an AI-powered platform that revolutionizes contract lifecycle management with enterprise-grade AI that connects contract data across critical business systems. It is a commitment to secure, reliable, and ethical AI. Their platform empowers teams to manage and analyze contracts intelligently, transforming legal challenges into strategic opportunities. By adopting Evisort, one can elevate document management and set a new standard for AI adoption.

env0

Funding Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software that helps businesses master cloud infrastructure with environment provisioning, cloud governance, and workflow tools. Built to empower the entire team, env0 provides developers, SREs, data scientists, and even sales and support staff with a way to shift complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. The env0 platform is the first cloud management platform built to enable self-service with complete governance and cost control in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Deployed

Seed Round in 2020
Deployed is an AI-assisted decision and document automation platform transforming how organizations manage procurement, legal, and operational processes. By addressing inefficiencies in decision-making and collaboration, Deployed streamlines procurement workflows with its WorkAssessor tool and automates the creation of complex documents—such as contracts, SoWs, and operational agreements—with WorkAuthor. Our solutions reduce costs, improve compliance, and enhance efficiency, enabling enterprises to handle document-intensive processes faster and more effectively.

Outreach

Series F in 2020
Outreach is a sales engagement platform that accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform manages all customer interactions across email, voice and social, and leverages machine learning to guide reps to take the right actions. Thousands of customers, including Cloudera, Glassdoor, Pandora, and Zillow, rely on Outreach to drive predictable and measurable growth, increase efficiency and effectiveness of customer-facing teams, and improve visibility into sales activity and performance.

Outreach

Series E in 2019
Outreach is a sales engagement platform that accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform manages all customer interactions across email, voice and social, and leverages machine learning to guide reps to take the right actions. Thousands of customers, including Cloudera, Glassdoor, Pandora, and Zillow, rely on Outreach to drive predictable and measurable growth, increase efficiency and effectiveness of customer-facing teams, and improve visibility into sales activity and performance.

CognitiveScale

Series B in 2016
CognitiveScale pioneered the concept of 'AI Engineering', paving the way to industrialize scalable Enterprise AI development and deployment. Backed by over 100 issued AI patents, the award-winning Cortex AI Platform empowers businesses to infuse trusted decision intelligence into business processes and applications maximizing total customer experience and operational efficiency. Our platform currently delivers hyper-personalized insights to more than 100 million customers. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, CognitiveScale is recognized by the World Economic Forum for positively impacting business and society through responsible AI. We are backed by investment from Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, IBM, Westly Group, M12 (Microsoft Ventures), Anthem, and USAA.
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