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M12
San Francisco, United States
Invests in early‑stage, technology‑driven companies that are disrupting current markets, leveraging Microsoft’s resources and expertise.
Portfolio
40+
Employees
100+
Founded
2016
AUM
N/A
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United States
M12
Invests in early‑stage, technology‑driven companies that are disrupting current markets, leveraging Microsoft’s resources and expertise.
Portfolio
40+
Employees
100+
Founded
2016
AUM
N/A
Showing 24 of 40 matched portfolio companies
Acerta Analytics develops LinePulse, a predictive quality analytics platform that utilizes machine learning to analyze shop floor data and forecast potential defects in precision manufacturing. This technology enables automotive manufacturers to enhance product quality, reduce scrap rates by up to 63%, and improve first-time-through performance.
Funding: $18.6M
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Funding: $18.6M
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Andor Health develops the ThinkAndor® platform, which utilizes AI-driven ambient observation, computer vision, and natural language processing to enhance real-time communication and workflow orchestration among healthcare teams. This technology addresses inefficiencies in patient monitoring and care coordination, resulting in reduced readmission rates and improved patient outcomes.
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Armada provides an edge computing platform that integrates connectivity, ruggedized mobile data centers, and real-world AI applications to enable real-time data processing in remote environments. This technology addresses challenges in industries such as oil and gas, manufacturing, and logistics by enhancing safety, automating operations, and improving decision-making capabilities.
Funding: $95.0M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $95.0M
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Artificial develops a lab automation platform that digitizes and orchestrates laboratory workflows by integrating hardware, software, and personnel through the Artificial Cloud. This platform enhances operational efficiency by automating data capture, optimizing scheduling, and providing real-time guidance, thereby reducing errors and training times while increasing throughput.
Funding: $21.5M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $21.5M
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Bolster AI employs generative AI to detect and eliminate phishing and impersonation threats across various digital channels, including the web, social media, and app stores. By automating the takedown process with a 1/100,000 false positive rate, Bolster enhances security operations and provides rapid response to emerging threats.
Funding: $40.0M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $40.0M
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Builder provides an AI frontend engineer platform to design, prototype, and ship production changes within existing applications. The system integrates with development workflows via agents connecting to tools like Jira and Slack for iteration and review. This enables teams to accelerate UI deployment and increase development capacity by automating frontend tasks.
Funding: $37.3M
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Funding: $37.3M
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Code Ocean is a computational research platform that enables researchers to create reproducible environments and manage data through automated Dockerfile generation and integrated ML workflows. It addresses the challenges of slow collaboration and inconsistent result reproduction across diverse compute environments in computational science and bioinformatics.
Funding: $16.5M
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Funding: $16.5M
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CruxOCM utilizes Robotic Industrial Process Automation (RIPA) to enhance control room operations by automating command generation and reducing alarm fatigue. This technology addresses inefficiencies and safety risks in industrial environments, leading to improved profitability and sustainability.
The startup offers a writing platform that utilizes data science and design principles to create precise statements of work for professional services. This enables clients to accurately define project scopes, optimize spending, and assess the return on investment for their external workforce.
Funding: $4.4M
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Amrock VenturesM12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Amrock VenturesM12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $4.4M
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Edera offers a hardened runtime for Kubernetes that runs each container inside a lightweight Xen‑based microVM, providing hardware‑level isolation and reducing the attack surface by up to 95%. The platform delivers near‑native performance—within 5% of standard containers—without requiring specialized hardware or workflow changes, and includes built‑in observability and policy enforcement for multi‑tenant, GPU‑accelerated, and edge workloads.
Funding: $15.0M
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+ 6 Other investorsM12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
+ 6 Other investorsM12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $15.0M
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FortressIQ provides a platform that integrates security, insights, and governance for enterprise business automation and AI. The company addresses the challenges of data privacy and compliance by enabling organizations to monitor and manage their automated processes effectively.
Funding: $30.0M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundTiger Global Management
M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundTiger Global Management
Funding: $30.0M
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Go1 is a content aggregation platform that provides on-demand training and compliance resources from over 250 providers, enabling companies to enhance workforce skills efficiently. By integrating with more than 70 existing technologies, Go1 delivers personalized learning experiences tailored to individual needs, ensuring relevant content is accessible within the workflow.
500+
50K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $413.7M
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Funding: $413.7M
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HiddenLayer offers a software platform that monitors the inputs and outputs of machine learning models to protect against adversarial attacks, model theft, and data exposure. By utilizing the MITRE ATLAS framework, it provides real-time awareness of model health without requiring access to raw data or algorithms, ensuring the security of proprietary AI assets.
Funding: $55.8M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundMoore Strategic Ventures
M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundMoore Strategic Ventures
Funding: $55.8M
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The startup operates a revenue growth management platform that utilizes a central optimization engine integrating enterprise artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making in retail. This technology enables consumer brands to effectively manage category planning, merchandising, and supply chain operations in an unpredictable market.
50+
3K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $24.0M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundNewRoad Capital Partners
M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundNewRoad Capital Partners
Funding: $24.0M
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inVia Robotics provides a Robots-as-a-Service solution that integrates autonomous mobile robots and AI-powered Warehouse Execution System software to enhance warehouse productivity. Their technology enables e-commerce distribution centers to achieve up to 5x productivity increases while minimizing labor costs and utilizing existing infrastructure.
Funding: $60.2M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundQualcomm Ventures
M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundQualcomm Ventures
Funding: $60.2M
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Karlsgate provides a data collaboration platform that employs patent-pending crypto identity technology and deterministic cascading match algorithms to enable anonymous data matching. This technology allows brands and data providers to share consumer insights while maintaining the privacy of individual identities, addressing the challenges of data security and compliance in sensitive information sharing.
Funding: $5.0M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundMotley Fool Ventures
M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundMotley Fool Ventures
Funding: $5.0M
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The startup offers a mobile gaming development platform that connects players, creators, and developers, facilitating collaborative game creation. This platform addresses challenges in game development, art production, monetization, and distribution by leveraging community support and resources.
Funding: $18.0M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundTPY Capital
M12 - Microsoft's Venture FundTPY Capital
Funding: $18.0M
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Lace Lithography offers a Beyond‑EUV atom lithography system that uses focused neutral‑atom beams to pattern semiconductor wafers with sub‑nanometer precision, surpassing the 13.5 nm limit of traditional EUV. The platform combines high‑flux atom sources, magnetic optics, and in‑situ metrology to deliver wafer‑scale throughput compatible with existing fab lines, enabling chipmakers to continue scaling logic and memory nodes.
LoginRadius provides an API-driven customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform for businesses. It offers features like authentication, authorization, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and user management, enabling secure and compliant customer experiences for web and mobile applications.
Funding: $17.0M
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Forgepoint CapitalM12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Forgepoint CapitalM12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $17.0M
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MedMe Health provides a patient care platform that enables pharmacists to schedule, conduct, and track clinical services efficiently. This technology addresses the need for streamlined pharmacy workflows, enhancing patient engagement and diversifying revenue streams.
Funding: $3.5M
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Funding: $3.5M
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Metrika is a monitoring and analytics platform that utilizes automated risk assessment tools to enhance compliance and accountability in blockchain networks. It addresses the challenges of decentralized risk management by providing institutions with the ability to proactively monitor and mitigate risks while ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.
Funding: $22.5M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $22.5M
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Modl.ai provides an AI-driven engine that utilizes virtual player bots for automated quality assurance and player behavior simulation throughout the game development lifecycle. This technology identifies bugs and performance issues while ensuring balanced gameplay and enhanced player engagement, significantly reducing testing time and costs.
Funding: $10.1M
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Griffin Gaming PartnersM12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Griffin Gaming PartnersM12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $10.1M
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Neon provides a serverless Postgres platform that enables developers to quickly provision databases, scale automatically based on load, and create isolated database copies for development and CI/CD through its branching feature. This technology addresses the challenges of managing database infrastructure, allowing teams to focus on building applications without the overhead of server maintenance.
Funding: $175.6M
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Funding: $175.6M
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Nuon provides a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform that enables software vendors to package and deploy applications directly into customer cloud environments. The platform automates the packaging of infrastructure components like Helm charts and Terraform modules into deployable App Configs. It manages the entire lifecycle, offering streamlined installation, controlled updates, and real-time monitoring for applications running within customer-owned infrastructure.
Funding: $16.5M
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Funding: $16.5M
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