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.

Andrew Smyth

Managing Partner

Past deals in PaaS

Nuon

Series A in 2024
Nuon is a developer of cloud applications that enables businesses to operate their software on customers' cloud accounts. The company focuses on creating fully self-managing cloud environments by handling the deployment, updates, and ongoing management of operations. This approach provides businesses with a control plane that allows application builders to debug applications, access logs, monitor metrics, and receive alerts. Additionally, Nuon's platform facilitates the execution of operational commands in a secure and auditable manner, ensuring the integrity of customer data from a centralized dashboard.

Neon

Venture Round in 2024
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

env0

Series A in 2023
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.

Isovalent

Series B in 2022
Isovalent, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions for enterprises to connect, monitor, and secure workloads in cloud-native environments. The company's flagship product, Cilium, leverages eBPF to enhance networking, security, and observability for Kubernetes deployments across both cloud and on-premises infrastructures. Isovalent offers Cilium Enterprise, which focuses on security automation, compliance, and integration with legacy systems, along with open-source tools that facilitate network connectivity, threat detection, and security compliance monitoring. Founded by the creators of Cilium and eBPF, Isovalent serves a diverse clientele, including major organizations like Adobe, AWS, and Google. The company was established in 2016 and has its headquarters in Cupertino, California, with an additional office in Zurich, Switzerland.

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.

CloudSimple

Series A in 2016
CloudSimple, Inc. is a technology company based in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing solutions for deploying, managing, and monitoring infrastructure in cloud environments. The company offers a range of services, including unified management, private cloud networking, hybrid cloud architecture, data center migration, and disaster recovery platforms. Its primary focus is on enabling enterprises to migrate VMware workloads to the cloud without requiring modifications, allowing users to leverage familiar VMware and cloud management tools. CloudSimple's services are designed to enhance IT agility and reduce costs through on-demand, elastic infrastructure. As of November 2019, CloudSimple operates as a subsidiary of Google LLC.
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