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 Machine Learning

d-Matrix

Series A in 2022
d-Matrix is a computing platform designed to target artificial intelligence inferencing workloads in the data center. Its mission is to build and deploy the world’s first brain-inspired AI compute engine for a broad class of inferencing workloads in the multi-billion dollar cloud and infrastructure edge markets.

Syntiant

Series D in 2022
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Wandelbots

Series C in 2022
Wandelbots GmbH, based in Dresden, Germany, is a startup focused on simplifying the programming of industrial robots. The company has developed sensor-attached wearables that allow users to teach robots through demonstration, eliminating the need for coding. By wearing a suit equipped with sensors, operators can perform tasks that the robots then learn to replicate. Wandelbots' software tracks these movements and creates machine learning models from multiple demonstrations, which generate automation workflows that can be refined and optimized. The system is designed to be self-adaptive, allowing robots to adjust to dynamic environments through automatic anomaly detection and process adaptation. This innovative approach significantly reduces the time and cost associated with automation projects, making it accessible for both small and large enterprises.

blackshark.ai

Series A in 2021
blackshark.ai specializes in extracting insights from satellite imagery through a fully automated platform powered by scalable artificial intelligence. The company employs advanced machine learning techniques to rapidly train neural networks for detecting various features, such as buildings, vegetation, streets, and land classifications, across multiple input sources including satellite images, aerial photographs, and HD map data. Additionally, blackshark.ai can automatically reconstruct detected features in 3D, utilizing a patent-pending technology for efficient data storage and streaming. With a team of over 50 experts in data science, geospatial engineering, and 3D rendering, the company focuses on providing detailed analyses for diverse applications in mapping, navigation, location intelligence, and earth observation. Their technology enables businesses to answer critical questions regarding land use, infrastructure, and resource management. Blackshark.ai operates from offices in San Francisco, US, and Graz, Austria.

Memgraph

Seed Round in 2021
Memgraph Ltd, established in 2016 and based in London, United Kingdom, specializes in real-time graph database solutions. The company’s platform is designed to understand and analyze the relationships between data points, allowing for insights that mimic human cognitive processes. As a fully managed, cloud-hosted service, Memgraph’s technology offers high-performance data ingestion and querying capabilities, enabling enterprises to access and process large volumes of interconnected data efficiently. This innovative approach supports real-time operational applications, empowering organizations to gain valuable intelligence and enhance decision-making in a data-driven environment.

Private AI

Seed Round in 2021
Private AI Inc., established in 2017 and located in Toronto, Canada, specializes in the development of privacy-preserving machine learning and natural language processing tools. The company aims to create solutions that enhance secure and seamless data analysis, thereby supporting innovative software development while safeguarding user privacy. Through its advanced technologies, Private AI seeks to address the growing demand for data security in various applications, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected during analysis and processing.

1910 Genetics

Series A in 2021
AI for new drug discovery

Acerta

Series A in 2020
Acerta Systems Analytics Inc. specializes in providing machine intelligence solutions that convert raw machine data into actionable insights. The company's primary offering, Acerta CHECK, employs a combination of statistical methods, data mining algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify critical issues and anomalies in machine behavior. Targeting the automotive sector, Acerta's solutions cater to OEMs, parts suppliers, and vehicle testing equipment providers, enhancing vehicle health monitoring and data acquisition. Additionally, the company's algorithms are utilized in the aerospace industry for airplane health management and engine testing. By detecting anomalies and predicting equipment failures, Acerta supports manufacturers in optimizing their processes and improving product quality. Founded in 2014 and based in Waterloo, Canada, Acerta is committed to transforming quality control in the automotive industry through advanced artificial intelligence applications.

Syntiant

Series C in 2020
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

CognitiveScale

Series B in 2020
CognitiveScale is a provider of enterprise Cognitive Cloud™ software, a new class of big data interpretation and machine learning systems, which accelerate decision making, enhance customer engagement and improve employee productivity. CognitiveScale's industry and enterprise optimized cognitive processes and applications for healthcare, commerce, employee service, and procurement deliver Insights as a Service powered by our Insights Fabric™ Cognitive Cloud platform. Continuously learning, CognitiveScale's Deep Cognition technology uses advanced machine intelligence to transform massive amounts of multi-structured data, including text, images, sensor data, video and “dark data,” into cognitive insights that prescribe contextual action to end users and businesses.

Wandelbots

Series B in 2020
Wandelbots GmbH, based in Dresden, Germany, is a startup focused on simplifying the programming of industrial robots. The company has developed sensor-attached wearables that allow users to teach robots through demonstration, eliminating the need for coding. By wearing a suit equipped with sensors, operators can perform tasks that the robots then learn to replicate. Wandelbots' software tracks these movements and creates machine learning models from multiple demonstrations, which generate automation workflows that can be refined and optimized. The system is designed to be self-adaptive, allowing robots to adjust to dynamic environments through automatic anomaly detection and process adaptation. This innovative approach significantly reduces the time and cost associated with automation projects, making it accessible for both small and large enterprises.

Hazy

Seed Round in 2020
Hazy Limited is a London-based company that specializes in automatic data anonymization using artificial intelligence. Incorporated in 2017, Hazy develops a platform that generates synthetic data, which retains the statistical properties of real datasets while ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of personal information. This innovative approach allows businesses to share and utilize data for analytics and innovation without the risks associated with compliance and security breaches. By capturing patterns from raw data, Hazy creates entirely synthetic datasets that provide the statistical value of the original data, enabling data-centric organizations to unlock their data potential more safely and efficiently. Hazy is recognized as a spin-out from University College London and has garnered backing from prominent partners such as Microsoft and Nationwide.

Cerebri AI

Convertible Note in 2019
Cerebri AI Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, develops software solutions aimed at enhancing decision-making for enterprises. The company's key offering, the Cerebri Decisions platform, utilizes advanced artificial intelligence technologies from leading providers such as IBM Watson, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Through its SaaS product, Cerebri CX 2.0, the company enables organizations to assess individual brand commitment and implement personalized actions in real time, thereby increasing revenue and lowering costs across various channels. This platform employs reinforcement learning to evaluate the value of customer interactions—encompassing sales, marketing, and service—providing actionable insights into customer experience from the customer's perspective.

Element AI

Series B in 2019
Element AI Inc. provides artificial intelligence solutions (AI) for organizations to identify opportunities to use artificial intelligence and machine learning and build AI solutions. It operates an AI as a Service (AIaaS) platform that enables businesses to launch and incubate AI solutions in partnership with large corporations. The company also operates a research and development laboratory that conducts research to deploy AI in computing infrastructure. It provides its products to insurance, banking and capital markets, manufacturing, logistics, retail, and consumer packaged goods industries. Element AI Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with an additional office in Toronto, Canada.

Acerta

Convertible Note in 2018
Acerta Systems Analytics Inc. specializes in providing machine intelligence solutions that convert raw machine data into actionable insights. The company's primary offering, Acerta CHECK, employs a combination of statistical methods, data mining algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify critical issues and anomalies in machine behavior. Targeting the automotive sector, Acerta's solutions cater to OEMs, parts suppliers, and vehicle testing equipment providers, enhancing vehicle health monitoring and data acquisition. Additionally, the company's algorithms are utilized in the aerospace industry for airplane health management and engine testing. By detecting anomalies and predicting equipment failures, Acerta supports manufacturers in optimizing their processes and improving product quality. Founded in 2014 and based in Waterloo, Canada, Acerta is committed to transforming quality control in the automotive industry through advanced artificial intelligence applications.

Syntiant

Series B in 2018
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Twenty Billion Neurons

Series A in 2018
Twenty Billion Neurons (TwentyBN) is an AI startup that builds intelligent avatars that are redefining the way AI interacts with humans.Having built the world's first A.I. avatar, named Millie, that can see, understand, and interact with consumers in real time, TwentyBN is offering a range of life-sized, intelligent avatars that can assume various roles, including greeter, brand ambassador, personal trainer, office assistant and more.

Hazy

Seed Round in 2018
Hazy Limited is a London-based company that specializes in automatic data anonymization using artificial intelligence. Incorporated in 2017, Hazy develops a platform that generates synthetic data, which retains the statistical properties of real datasets while ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of personal information. This innovative approach allows businesses to share and utilize data for analytics and innovation without the risks associated with compliance and security breaches. By capturing patterns from raw data, Hazy creates entirely synthetic datasets that provide the statistical value of the original data, enabling data-centric organizations to unlock their data potential more safely and efficiently. Hazy is recognized as a spin-out from University College London and has garnered backing from prominent partners such as Microsoft and Nationwide.

Cerebri AI

Series A in 2018
Cerebri AI Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, develops software solutions aimed at enhancing decision-making for enterprises. The company's key offering, the Cerebri Decisions platform, utilizes advanced artificial intelligence technologies from leading providers such as IBM Watson, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Through its SaaS product, Cerebri CX 2.0, the company enables organizations to assess individual brand commitment and implement personalized actions in real time, thereby increasing revenue and lowering costs across various channels. This platform employs reinforcement learning to evaluate the value of customer interactions—encompassing sales, marketing, and service—providing actionable insights into customer experience from the customer's perspective.

CognitiveScale

Series B in 2018
CognitiveScale is a provider of enterprise Cognitive Cloud™ software, a new class of big data interpretation and machine learning systems, which accelerate decision making, enhance customer engagement and improve employee productivity. CognitiveScale's industry and enterprise optimized cognitive processes and applications for healthcare, commerce, employee service, and procurement deliver Insights as a Service powered by our Insights Fabric™ Cognitive Cloud platform. Continuously learning, CognitiveScale's Deep Cognition technology uses advanced machine intelligence to transform massive amounts of multi-structured data, including text, images, sensor data, video and “dark data,” into cognitive insights that prescribe contextual action to end users and businesses.

Memgraph

Seed Round in 2018
Memgraph Ltd, established in 2016 and based in London, United Kingdom, specializes in real-time graph database solutions. The company’s platform is designed to understand and analyze the relationships between data points, allowing for insights that mimic human cognitive processes. As a fully managed, cloud-hosted service, Memgraph’s technology offers high-performance data ingestion and querying capabilities, enabling enterprises to access and process large volumes of interconnected data efficiently. This innovative approach supports real-time operational applications, empowering organizations to gain valuable intelligence and enhance decision-making in a data-driven environment.

Element AI

Series A in 2017
Element AI Inc. provides artificial intelligence solutions (AI) for organizations to identify opportunities to use artificial intelligence and machine learning and build AI solutions. It operates an AI as a Service (AIaaS) platform that enables businesses to launch and incubate AI solutions in partnership with large corporations. The company also operates a research and development laboratory that conducts research to deploy AI in computing infrastructure. It provides its products to insurance, banking and capital markets, manufacturing, logistics, retail, and consumer packaged goods industries. Element AI Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with an additional office in Toronto, Canada.

CognitiveScale

Funding Round in 2017
CognitiveScale is a provider of enterprise Cognitive Cloud™ software, a new class of big data interpretation and machine learning systems, which accelerate decision making, enhance customer engagement and improve employee productivity. CognitiveScale's industry and enterprise optimized cognitive processes and applications for healthcare, commerce, employee service, and procurement deliver Insights as a Service powered by our Insights Fabric™ Cognitive Cloud platform. Continuously learning, CognitiveScale's Deep Cognition technology uses advanced machine intelligence to transform massive amounts of multi-structured data, including text, images, sensor data, video and “dark data,” into cognitive insights that prescribe contextual action to end users and businesses.

Figure Eight

Venture Round in 2017
Figure Eight Inc. is a developer of a human-in-the-loop machine learning platform that specializes in creating customized, high-quality training data for various applications. Founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, the platform transforms text, image, audio, and video data to support a wide range of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, intelligent chatbots, and computer vision. It employs machine learning-assisted annotation solutions to produce training data at enterprise scale, having generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight serves diverse industries such as automotive, healthcare, finance, and technology, facilitating tasks like video object tracking, sentiment analysis, and document transcription. The platform's capabilities enable data science teams to enhance the performance of their models in practical scenarios.

Bonsai

Series A in 2017
Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems. By completely automating the management of complex machine learning libraries and algorithms, Bonsai enables enterprises to program AI models that improve system control and enhance real-time decision support. Businesses use these models today to increase automation and improve operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities. Based in Berkeley, CA, Bonsai is backed by leading investors including NEA, Microsoft Ventures, ABB, Samsung NEXT and Siemens.

Element AI

Seed Round in 2016
Element AI Inc. provides artificial intelligence solutions (AI) for organizations to identify opportunities to use artificial intelligence and machine learning and build AI solutions. It operates an AI as a Service (AIaaS) platform that enables businesses to launch and incubate AI solutions in partnership with large corporations. The company also operates a research and development laboratory that conducts research to deploy AI in computing infrastructure. It provides its products to insurance, banking and capital markets, manufacturing, logistics, retail, and consumer packaged goods industries. Element AI Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with an additional office in Toronto, Canada.

CognitiveScale

Series B in 2016
CognitiveScale is a provider of enterprise Cognitive Cloud™ software, a new class of big data interpretation and machine learning systems, which accelerate decision making, enhance customer engagement and improve employee productivity. CognitiveScale's industry and enterprise optimized cognitive processes and applications for healthcare, commerce, employee service, and procurement deliver Insights as a Service powered by our Insights Fabric™ Cognitive Cloud platform. Continuously learning, CognitiveScale's Deep Cognition technology uses advanced machine intelligence to transform massive amounts of multi-structured data, including text, images, sensor data, video and “dark data,” into cognitive insights that prescribe contextual action to end users and businesses.

Figure Eight

Series D in 2016
Figure Eight Inc. is a developer of a human-in-the-loop machine learning platform that specializes in creating customized, high-quality training data for various applications. Founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, the platform transforms text, image, audio, and video data to support a wide range of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, intelligent chatbots, and computer vision. It employs machine learning-assisted annotation solutions to produce training data at enterprise scale, having generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight serves diverse industries such as automotive, healthcare, finance, and technology, facilitating tasks like video object tracking, sentiment analysis, and document transcription. The platform's capabilities enable data science teams to enhance the performance of their models in practical scenarios.
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