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M12 - Microsoft's Venture Capital Fund | Icebreaker

M12 - Microsoft's Venture Capital Fund

M12 - Microsoft's Venture Capital Fund

M12 is Microsoft's venture capital fund. We invest in early-stage technology companies disrupting the enterprise.

9 members

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m12.vc

Members

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Leading Partnerships at Axion | AI for Manufacturing

Esha Sahai (née Ray)

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Esha is a venture capitalist with significant experience in corporate development, strategy, operating roles. She is crazily passionate about innovation & startups in all shapes & forms & has a keen empathetic sense of what entrepreneurs need to succeed. Strong acumen for identifying promising & transformative entrepreneurs the moment they walk through the door. As a mentor capitalist, gets excited at the opportunity to advise & build support for passionate, bold, & ethical entrepreneurs. Offered Partner track Principal role, Basecamp Fund(AV, AUM: $1B+) SF 2019 (maternity, lactation leave) Offered Partner track Principal role, Basecamp Fund(AV) NY 2018 Offered VP Sales & Investor Relations, AV in Boston, NY, SF 2018 Offered Partner track Principal role at Castor Ventures Boston 2017 Top Fellow AV 2018 (Acceptance Rate Fellows: 1%). Consistently over performed & received Principal job offer at AV 5 months into the program Soft Offered Director Corp Dev to Vice President Microsoft Seattle 2018 Soft Offered VP reporting to Executive Director, Morgan Stanley NY 2015 M&A: Maluuba, Cloudyn, Xoxco (Howdy.ai) Investments:Smartvid, Respiratory Motion, Trocafone, Teal Drones, Consumer Physics, Sentenai, PastureMap, Lumiata, Rigetti, Sense, AgileStacks, RapidSOS, Twenty20, TVision Insights, Verity Studios, Tamr, Trifacta, Guardium, Mtonomy, 0x, GamerToken, Circle, Algorand, Top Network, Unity Biotechnology, Zapata Computing, Optimus Ride, SiFive, Ayar Labs, Tact.ai, Paxata, Mad Gaze, JumpCloud, SolveCare, Globitex, OpenAxis, Breshna/Grid, Magna, Flow48, Bitwala, Surgicure Funds:Flamenco Ventures,Blockchain Founders Fund,Bad Bitch Empire,Vested,Vitalize,Climate Seeds,Zane,Varidus,AV,M12,Maroon Venture Specialities:Investments, M&A, Partnerships, Corporate Strategy & Development, Startups & Entrepreneurship Columbia University (2004): Admit graduate program Masters of Arts in Mathematics with specialization in Math of Finance (MAFN) https://www.math.columbia.edu/mafn/ SAT2 Scores(1999), 99th Percentile Math1:800/800 Math2:800/800 Chemistry:700/800 Shri Ram College of Commerce 1998 —Admit BA(Hons)Econ (100% meritocracy). #1 institute for undergraduate economics, India. —Highest score Econ (97%,top 0.1%) in CBSE India 1998. Exam takers: 400,000+ https://www.theindianwire.com/education/best-colleges-india-economics-88250/amp/ —Prelims International Mathematics Olympiad(1996, 1997) Claim to Fame:Undergrad admit Brandeis(Little Ivy). Apparently Einstein was the Founder. https://www.raabcollection.com/literary-autographs/einstein-brandeis

Rashmi Gopinath

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Experienced Investing Partner with a demonstrated history of investing in cutting-edge enterprise software startups as well as operating success leading business development and GTM roles for high-growth startups. Unique combination of strong technical skills, GTM acumen and venture investing in areas such as datacenter & cloud infrastructure, data & analytics, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and devops. Recognized by GrowthCap as Top 20 Software Investor for four straight years in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Also recognized by Global Corporate Venturing in 2020 as #5 of top 50 Emerging Leaders in global CVC funds. Nominated by InformationAge and Women in IT for 2018 “Woman of the year” and “Business role model of the year”, and "Business role model of the year 2019" awards. Recognized by Forbes in an article on top female VC leaders.

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https://opensourcesecurityindex.io/

Sasha Manuilova

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Strategic Partnerships, Weights & Biases

Phillip Typaldos

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Corporate Business Development | Venture Capital | Startup Strategy & Operations | M&A

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Head of Partnerships @ Inworld AI

Elliott Robinson

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19 years of international experience investing in and partnering with world class entrepreneurs and the technology companies that they lead. Six years focused on Series A and B investments followed by eleven years and counting focused on growth stage series C, D and E opportunities. Currently investing across the spectrum of Cloud Software, Consumer Internet, and Frontier Tech. Check size between $20M and $200M.

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