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 Virtualization

Inworld

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an AI-based platform designed to populate immersive realities including the metaverse, VR and AR, games, and virtual worlds. The company offers to virtual human characters to build and deploy virtual characters for a variety of use cases, enabling clients to leverage and streamline their creative process.

env0

Series A in 2021
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company offers a cloud management platform that allows businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. The platform is designed to empower a range of users, including developers, site reliability engineers, data scientists, and support staff, by providing a self-service environment that facilitates the handling of complex workloads. With capabilities for creating custom environments and running end-to-end tests on each pull request, env0 enables organizations to enhance productivity while maintaining cost control across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

env0

Funding Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company offers a cloud management platform that allows businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. The platform is designed to empower a range of users, including developers, site reliability engineers, data scientists, and support staff, by providing a self-service environment that facilitates the handling of complex workloads. With capabilities for creating custom environments and running end-to-end tests on each pull request, env0 enables organizations to enhance productivity while maintaining cost control across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Illusive

Venture Round in 2019
Illusive Networks Ltd. specializes in cybersecurity solutions that utilize deception technology to protect organizations from advanced cyber threats. The company offers a range of services, including compliance support, insider threat defense, and cloud security solutions. Their product suite includes the Illusive Networks Management Platform for centralized cyber security management, the Attack Surface Manager for continuous network vulnerability discovery, and tools for attack detection and intelligence that provide actionable insights into cyber incidents. Illusive Networks serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, retail, and technology. Founded in 2014, the company operates from its headquarters in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, and has an additional office in New York, New York.

Volterra

Venture Round in 2019
Volterra Inc. is a software development company founded in 2017 and based in Santa Clara, California. It specializes in providing distributed cloud services that assist developers in building, deploying, operating, and securing large-scale distributed applications across edge and multi-cloud environments. The company’s global app-to-app network enables clients to secure cloud applications and optimize critical workloads by bringing them closer to end-users, thereby enhancing performance. This approach supports DevOps and NetOps teams in addressing operational security and performance challenges effectively.

Illusive

Venture Round in 2017
Illusive Networks Ltd. specializes in cybersecurity solutions that utilize deception technology to protect organizations from advanced cyber threats. The company offers a range of services, including compliance support, insider threat defense, and cloud security solutions. Their product suite includes the Illusive Networks Management Platform for centralized cyber security management, the Attack Surface Manager for continuous network vulnerability discovery, and tools for attack detection and intelligence that provide actionable insights into cyber incidents. Illusive Networks serves various industries, including financial services, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, retail, and technology. Founded in 2014, the company operates from its headquarters in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, and has an additional office in New York, New York.

Cloudsimple

Series A in 2016
CloudSimple provides a service to the world’s leading cloud vendors to deploy and manage workloads in a dedicated, private cloud in public clouds. With the full support of Microsoft and VMware, the first offering is a service for VMware. We help enterprises looking to move VMware workloads to the cloud without any changes and continue to use the familiar VMware and cloud management tools they know. IT benefits from the agility and on-demand, elastic infrastructure of the cloud, as well as lowered costs.
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