M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. 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.
- Total investments:
- 354
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund invests in
Stages M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund invests in
Countries M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $7M–$50M
- Series B
- $14M–$58M
- Series C
- $18M–$125M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 80 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 78 (22%)
- Machine Learning 43 (12%)
- Information Technology 36 (10%)
- SaaS 34 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 81 (23%)
- Series B 73 (21%)
- Series C 47 (13%)
- Seed 38 (11%)
- Series D 27 (8%)
Country
- United States 134 (38%)
- Israel 15 (4%)
- United Kingdom 10 (3%)
- Canada 7 (2%)
- Germany 4 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Peter Lenke
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Priyanka Mitra
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Todd Graham
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
James Wu
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
John Vela
Director of Portfolio Development
|
Director of Portfolio Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nous Research is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on developing open-source, human-centric artificial intelligence models and tools. Its work encompasses large language model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, aiming to align AI systems with real-world user experiences. In addition to model development, theorganization emphasizes decentralized AI training. It utilizes blockchain technology, specifically the Solana network, to coordinate and incentivize global participation in training its AI models. This approach allows individuals worldwide to contribute idle computing power for AI training, promoting a more distributed and collaborative development process. | $90M / Series B / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Mecka AI is a data infrastructure company that builds large scale human datasets and tools to train and deploy AI and robotics systems. | $60M / Series B / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Stuut provides an AI platform that automates accounts receivable work for companies. | $52.5M / Series B / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Mantic is a Digital Transformation Service Provider. | $25M / Seed / Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Arcee AI develops open-weight AI models and tools for building and deploying applications across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments. | $150M / Series B / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| HiddenLayer helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models. | $100M / Series B / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Stuut provides an AI platform that automates accounts receivable work for companies. | $67.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Mate provides an AI-powered SOC solution that learns from an organization’s best analysts and builds a contextual data. | $35M / Series A / Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| Vapi is a platform that allows the integration of applications and services. It enables users to create, manage, and monitor APIs. It also supports developers in building solutions and facilitates collaboration between teams. Vapi serves industries such as technology, finance, healthcare, and logistics. | $50M / Series B / May 12, 2026 | ||
| From content moderation to responsible AI, Cinder empowers businesses to orchestrate and automate digital safety at scale. Cinder was founded to help organizations foster safe online spaces for everyone. The Cinder platform empowers companies from start-ups to enterprises with end-to-end capabilities to mitigate harm, investigate abuse, and producetrustworthy and reliable AI outcomes. Building your world-class company means keeping your users and community safe—Cinder unlocks faster growth by making safety easy. We work with customers in every industry from frontier AI labs to e-commerce and social media. | $41M / Series B / May 12, 2026 | ||
| See all 354 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund invest in?
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 354 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund's check size?
M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund typically joins rounds of $7M–$50M at Series A, $14M–$58M at Series B and $18M–$125M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund participates in.
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Who are the partners at M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund?
The team at M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund includes Peter Lenke (Managing Partner), Priyanka Mitra (Partner) and Todd Graham (Managing Partner), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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