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What does M12 invest in?
M12 invests most often at Venture and Seed (83% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI Apps, Security For AI and AI Cloud Infrastructure.
M12 highlights
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15 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Seed: 83% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 206 rounds, median $275K
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13 exits from the portfolio
What they do
M12 is Microsoft's venture capital fund. We invest in early-stage technology companies disrupting the enterprise.From their own website
- Type
- Corporate VC
- Cheque size
- $1.0M – $20M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- AI AppsSecurity For AIAI Cloud Infrastructure
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first300 appearances
- 2026
15 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- May
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2025
2 rounds
- Apr
- Jan
- 2024
5 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- 2023
1 round
- Mar
- 2019
20 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 27 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
26 of 38 we have independently watched raise
1910geneticsAcertaAgoloAllstacksArceeArkoselabsArmadaAt-bayBeameryBluevineClearmotionCnexlabsCodeoceanCodeseeConduktorContrastsecurityCruxocmD-matrixDatologyaiDefinelyDeployedDirectlyEcomedesEderaEnv0EnvisagenicsAkaidentityAndorhealthAquasecArizeArtificialBlacksharkBolsterBuilderBytewaxCoolerscreensGetauctorTrydatabook
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed13 in all
FrilpBought by FreshdeskUndisclosedOct 2015
GazemetrixBought by SysomosUndisclosedSept 2015
RevealBought by RhapsodyUndisclosedApr 2015
Airpost.ioBought by BoxUndisclosedFeb 2015
Pinion.ggBought by UnikrnUndisclosedFeb 2015
BuzzTableBought by CAKE CorporationUndisclosedDec 2013
BuzzTableBought by SyscoUndisclosedOct 2013
PlustxtBought by One97 Communications$2.0MAug 2013
//Staq.ioBought by PlayHavenUndisclosedJun 2013
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.