M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund

M12 - Microsoft’s venture fund, invests in early-stage enterprise software companies with a focus on AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical SaaS, and Web3/Gaming. Since 2016, M12 has invested in over 100 companies, helping startups accelerate growth with unparalleled access to Microsoft.

Past deals in Data Mining

InnovAccer

Series F in 2025
InnovAccer develops and delivers analytical applications for various industries, specializing in healthcare. Its flagship platform, Datashop, offers solutions like Datashop Care for targeted patient care, Datashop Alchemy for market risk analysis, and Datashop Insights for data visualization. InnovAccer also provides tools for clinical documentation improvement, physician engagement, and care navigation. The company serves academic institutions, governmental organizations, and corporate enterprises globally.

Space and Time

Series A in 2024
Space and Time is a decentralized analytics platform designed to facilitate low-latency queries and tamperproof analytics across the Web. The company provides a multichain data solution tailored for decentralized applications (dapps) and developers in sectors such as gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi). Its platform enables the integration of on-chain and off-chain data, allowing users to perform complex analytics in a single query. By transforming major blockchains into advanced databases, Space and Time empowers organizations to achieve enterprise-scale analytics while enhancing the speed and reliability of their data operations.

Bolster

Series B in 2024
Bolster Inc. specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, protecting brands from online scams, account takeovers, and counterfeit activities across various channels like the open web, social media, app stores, and dark web. Its platform offers real-time detection, automated takedowns, continuous monitoring, and rich threat intelligence, serving clients across finance, technology, and retail sectors.

DatologyAI

Series A in 2024
DatologyAI specializes in AI-driven data curation. It develops deep learning tools to automate dataset creation and improve model training efficiency. Its tools identify optimal data for AI models, suggest dataset augmentation strategies, and optimize batching or splitting processes.

d-Matrix

Series B in 2023
D-Matrix is a computing platform dedicated to enhancing artificial intelligence inferencing workloads within data centers. The company aims to create and implement the world's first brain-inspired AI compute engine, catering to a diverse range of inferencing tasks in the expansive cloud and infrastructure edge markets. D-Matrix's innovative approach leverages in-memory computing techniques and addresses the challenges of memory-compute integration through a combination of mixed-signal and digital signal processing methods. This focus on efficiency enables clients to optimize their computing capabilities, particularly in the realms of generative artificial intelligence and large language models.

Metrika

Series A in 2023
Founded in 2019, Metrika is a software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers a real-time dynamic risk management platform tailored for digital assets and blockchain protocols, providing advanced compliance and risk frameworks to enable financial institutions to confidently navigate the digital finance landscape.

Space and Time

Venture Round in 2022
Space and Time is a decentralized analytics platform designed to facilitate low-latency queries and tamperproof analytics across the Web. The company provides a multichain data solution tailored for decentralized applications (dapps) and developers in sectors such as gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi). Its platform enables the integration of on-chain and off-chain data, allowing users to perform complex analytics in a single query. By transforming major blockchains into advanced databases, Space and Time empowers organizations to achieve enterprise-scale analytics while enhancing the speed and reliability of their data operations.

d-Matrix

Series A in 2022
D-Matrix is a computing platform dedicated to enhancing artificial intelligence inferencing workloads within data centers. The company aims to create and implement the world's first brain-inspired AI compute engine, catering to a diverse range of inferencing tasks in the expansive cloud and infrastructure edge markets. D-Matrix's innovative approach leverages in-memory computing techniques and addresses the challenges of memory-compute integration through a combination of mixed-signal and digital signal processing methods. This focus on efficiency enables clients to optimize their computing capabilities, particularly in the realms of generative artificial intelligence and large language models.

Karlsgate

Seed Round in 2022
Karlsgate is a company that specializes in data collaboration software, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Budd Lake, New Jersey. The company offers a platform that allows for the anonymous matching of data, ensuring the custody of information while protecting the identities of data subjects. Utilizing patent-pending crypto identity technology and deterministic cascading match algorithms, Karlsgate enables brands, agencies, and data providers to share valuable consumer insights while maintaining robust identity protection.

Agolo

Series A in 2022
Agolo is a technology company that builds an artificial intelligence driven platform to create real-time summaries from unstructured information. The platform leverages machine learning and natural language processing to convert messy data into a clean entity-graph based data store, powering enterprise use cases such as GenAI applications, large language models, RAG pipelines, business intelligence dashboards, support-site augmentation, and enterprise search. By providing concise, contextual summaries, the solution helps improve product quality, reduce support costs, and enable faster detection of emerging issues. The company, originally known as Ninoh, is based in New York.

Databook

Series B in 2022
Databook is a technology company that builds a customer intelligence platform for enterprise sales teams. Its award‑winning solution combines licensed data, patented algorithms and domain expertise to help sales organizations identify high‑value accounts, prioritize key buyers, and tailor messaging that resonates with buyer pain points. The platform delivers customized recommendations and content that enable teams to align solutions with customer needs, resulting in larger deals and faster sales cycles. Clients such as Salesforce, Microsoft and Databricks report significant improvements in deal size and cycle time after adopting Databook.

Wallaroo

Series A in 2022
Wallaroo is a cloud-based platform specializing in the deployment of real-time machine learning applications. It simplifies infrastructure management, enabling rapid iteration and testing while processing large volumes of data. The platform is infrastructure-agnostic and scale-independent.

Prevedere

Venture Round in 2022
Prevedere is a predictive analytics company based in Columbus, Ohio, with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California. Founded in 2012, the company specializes in developing business performance forecasting software that helps leaders make informed decisions by providing real-time insights into future business performance. Prevedere's platform tracks and manages economic, environmental, and consumer behavior data to identify leading indicators for company revenues, profits, and individual products. The company offers a range of solutions, including predictive marketing analytics, financial forecasting intelligence, demand planning, and sales planning. Additionally, Prevedere provides industry outlook reports, Chinese consumer behavior data, and predictive insights, along with economic consulting, data science, and training services.

InnovAccer

Series E in 2021
InnovAccer develops and delivers analytical applications for various industries, specializing in healthcare. Its flagship platform, Datashop, offers solutions like Datashop Care for targeted patient care, Datashop Alchemy for market risk analysis, and Datashop Insights for data visualization. InnovAccer also provides tools for clinical documentation improvement, physician engagement, and care navigation. The company serves academic institutions, governmental organizations, and corporate enterprises globally.

Databook

Series A in 2021
Databook is a technology company that builds a customer intelligence platform for enterprise sales teams. Its award‑winning solution combines licensed data, patented algorithms and domain expertise to help sales organizations identify high‑value accounts, prioritize key buyers, and tailor messaging that resonates with buyer pain points. The platform delivers customized recommendations and content that enable teams to align solutions with customer needs, resulting in larger deals and faster sales cycles. Clients such as Salesforce, Microsoft and Databricks report significant improvements in deal size and cycle time after adopting Databook.

InnovAccer

Series D in 2021
InnovAccer develops and delivers analytical applications for various industries, specializing in healthcare. Its flagship platform, Datashop, offers solutions like Datashop Care for targeted patient care, Datashop Alchemy for market risk analysis, and Datashop Insights for data visualization. InnovAccer also provides tools for clinical documentation improvement, physician engagement, and care navigation. The company serves academic institutions, governmental organizations, and corporate enterprises globally.

Acerta Analytics

Series A in 2020
Acerta Analytics Inc. specializes in machine intelligence solutions that analyze raw machine data to facilitate informed decision-making, particularly in the automotive sector. The company's flagship product, Acerta CHECK, employs statistical methods, data mining algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify critical issues and anomalies in machine behavior. By assisting automotive manufacturers, including original equipment manufacturers and parts suppliers, Acerta helps improve quality control, reduce defects, and accelerate the market readiness of complex products. Additionally, the company's technology is applicable in aerospace for aircraft health management. Acerta's analytics platform empowers manufacturers to detect early signs of potential product failures, enhance root cause analysis, minimize scrap and rework, and continuously refine their processes. Founded in 2014 and based in Waterloo, Canada, Acerta is committed to transforming quality control through advanced artificial intelligence.

Agolo

Venture Round in 2020
Agolo is a technology company that builds an artificial intelligence driven platform to create real-time summaries from unstructured information. The platform leverages machine learning and natural language processing to convert messy data into a clean entity-graph based data store, powering enterprise use cases such as GenAI applications, large language models, RAG pipelines, business intelligence dashboards, support-site augmentation, and enterprise search. By providing concise, contextual summaries, the solution helps improve product quality, reduce support costs, and enable faster detection of emerging issues. The company, originally known as Ninoh, is based in New York.

InnovAccer

Series C in 2020
InnovAccer develops and delivers analytical applications for various industries, specializing in healthcare. Its flagship platform, Datashop, offers solutions like Datashop Care for targeted patient care, Datashop Alchemy for market risk analysis, and Datashop Insights for data visualization. InnovAccer also provides tools for clinical documentation improvement, physician engagement, and care navigation. The company serves academic institutions, governmental organizations, and corporate enterprises globally.

Airobotics

Convertible Note in 2019
Airobotics is a manufacturer of autonomous unmanned aerial drones that offers a comprehensive, fully automated solution for collecting aerial data and generating insights. The company serves various sectors, including government, industrial, and commercial industries. Airobotics specializes in automated data capture and analysis, providing services such as real-time video, disaster and scene assessment, compliance audits, land investigations, inspections, surveillance, progress monitoring, and survey services. By leveraging advanced drone technology, Airobotics enables organizations to efficiently gather critical data and make informed decisions.

Agolo

Venture Round in 2019
Agolo is a technology company that builds an artificial intelligence driven platform to create real-time summaries from unstructured information. The platform leverages machine learning and natural language processing to convert messy data into a clean entity-graph based data store, powering enterprise use cases such as GenAI applications, large language models, RAG pipelines, business intelligence dashboards, support-site augmentation, and enterprise search. By providing concise, contextual summaries, the solution helps improve product quality, reduce support costs, and enable faster detection of emerging issues. The company, originally known as Ninoh, is based in New York.

Unravel Data

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 develops and delivers analytical applications for various industries, specializing in healthcare. Its flagship platform, Datashop, offers solutions like Datashop Care for targeted patient care, Datashop Alchemy for market risk analysis, and Datashop Insights for data visualization. InnovAccer also provides tools for clinical documentation improvement, physician engagement, and care navigation. The company serves academic institutions, governmental organizations, and corporate enterprises globally.

Acerta Analytics

Convertible Note in 2018
Acerta Analytics Inc. specializes in machine intelligence solutions that analyze raw machine data to facilitate informed decision-making, particularly in the automotive sector. The company's flagship product, Acerta CHECK, employs statistical methods, data mining algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify critical issues and anomalies in machine behavior. By assisting automotive manufacturers, including original equipment manufacturers and parts suppliers, Acerta helps improve quality control, reduce defects, and accelerate the market readiness of complex products. Additionally, the company's technology is applicable in aerospace for aircraft health management. Acerta's analytics platform empowers manufacturers to detect early signs of potential product failures, enhance root cause analysis, minimize scrap and rework, and continuously refine their processes. Founded in 2014 and based in Waterloo, Canada, Acerta is committed to transforming quality control through advanced artificial intelligence.

Airobotics

Series D in 2018
Airobotics is a manufacturer of autonomous unmanned aerial drones that offers a comprehensive, fully automated solution for collecting aerial data and generating insights. The company serves various sectors, including government, industrial, and commercial industries. Airobotics specializes in automated data capture and analysis, providing services such as real-time video, disaster and scene assessment, compliance audits, land investigations, inspections, surveillance, progress monitoring, and survey services. By leveraging advanced drone technology, Airobotics enables organizations to efficiently gather critical data and make informed decisions.

Finclude

Grant in 2018
Finclude is a company that has developed a pan-European credit scoring system aimed at enabling businesses to evaluate consumers' creditworthiness based on their transactional behavior, irrespective of their credit history. The platform aggregates and interprets transactional data from various banks, allowing for a comprehensive assessment of an individual's affordability and creditworthiness. This innovative approach assists customers in making informed credit decisions by providing a clearer view of potential borrowers' financial behaviors and capabilities. Finclude's solution addresses the limitations of traditional credit scoring methods, thereby expanding access to credit for a broader range of individuals.

Unravel Data

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.

Airobotics

Series C in 2017
Airobotics is a manufacturer of autonomous unmanned aerial drones that offers a comprehensive, fully automated solution for collecting aerial data and generating insights. The company serves various sectors, including government, industrial, and commercial industries. Airobotics specializes in automated data capture and analysis, providing services such as real-time video, disaster and scene assessment, compliance audits, land investigations, inspections, surveillance, progress monitoring, and survey services. By leveraging advanced drone technology, Airobotics enables organizations to efficiently gather critical data and make informed decisions.

Agolo

Seed Round in 2017
Agolo is a technology company that builds an artificial intelligence driven platform to create real-time summaries from unstructured information. The platform leverages machine learning and natural language processing to convert messy data into a clean entity-graph based data store, powering enterprise use cases such as GenAI applications, large language models, RAG pipelines, business intelligence dashboards, support-site augmentation, and enterprise search. By providing concise, contextual summaries, the solution helps improve product quality, reduce support costs, and enable faster detection of emerging issues. The company, originally known as Ninoh, is based in New York.

Prevedere

Series B in 2017
Prevedere is a predictive analytics company based in Columbus, Ohio, with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California. Founded in 2012, the company specializes in developing business performance forecasting software that helps leaders make informed decisions by providing real-time insights into future business performance. Prevedere's platform tracks and manages economic, environmental, and consumer behavior data to identify leading indicators for company revenues, profits, and individual products. The company offers a range of solutions, including predictive marketing analytics, financial forecasting intelligence, demand planning, and sales planning. Additionally, Prevedere provides industry outlook reports, Chinese consumer behavior data, and predictive insights, along with economic consulting, data science, and training services.

GroundTruth

Series E in 2016
GroundTruth is a global location technology company that specializes in location-based marketing and advertising. It utilizes its proprietary Blueprints technology to provide valuable consumer insights based on real-world behaviors and interactions. With an extensive first-party database of 95 million active monthly users and 17 million daily users, GroundTruth monitors activities across 100 million places and points of interest. This vast dataset allows the company to deliver in-store visitation insights and competitive analysis for marketers, helping them to enhance brand awareness, increase website and in-store traffic, and ultimately drive sales. GroundTruth operates in 21 countries worldwide, positioning itself as a leader in leveraging location data to inform marketing strategies.

Paxata

Series D in 2016
Paxata, Inc., founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in adaptive data preparation platforms. Its core product enables business analysts to connect, explore, transform, and combine raw data into ready-to-analyze datasets. Paxata's platform offers features such as Data Time Machine for cloud-based data governance, Adaptive Information Platform for Microsoft Azure, and IntelliFusion™ technology for coding-free data prep. It operates internationally and has strategic ties with Cisco. As of December 2019, Paxata is a subsidiary of DataRobot, Inc., serving information-driven organizations seeking to enhance their analytics capabilities.
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