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Total investments 301
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$35M
Portfolio companies 150
Rounds per year 37.62
Lead investments 38
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Exits 17
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2016 was created M12, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States. M12 appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Machine Learning. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Livongo, Outreach, Applied Intuition.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the M12, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures, Plug and Play. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trinity Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trinity Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures.

When the investment is from M12 the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this M12 works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

blackshark.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Geospatial
Machine Learning
Mapping Services
Smart Cities
$15M16 Nov 2023 Graz, Steiermark, Austria

HiddenLayer

Cyber Security
$50M19 Sep 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

d-Matrix

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Center
$110M06 Sep 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Unstructured Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Open Source
$25M20 Jul 2023 Sacramento, California, United States

Typeface

Artificial Intelligence
Content
Enterprise Software
Software
$100M30 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Deployed

SaaS
Software
$4M18 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Noble.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Software
$17M12 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

env0

Cloud Data Services
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$18M29 Mar 2023 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Hazy

Artificial Intelligence
Internet
Machine Learning
Software
$9M28 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
News
GrowthSpace Raises $15M in Series A Funding

– GrowthSpace is a New York-based company focused on personalized talent development programs.
– The company raised $15m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by M12 and Vertex Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to grow the team globally and expand its technology, which connects employees to relevant experts at scale.

PandaDoc, the e-document startup, now valued at $1B as it closes a big Series C

– PandaDoc, a cloud-based e-document platform, raised $100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by OMERS Growth Equity and G Squared, and joined by Altos Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, One Peak Partners and M12.
– PandaDoc competes with the likes of DocuSign, Eversign, DocSend, GetAccept and others.
– The company has 30,000 customers across many different verticals.
– PandaDoc’s users are also pretty varied, including construction, education, medical and professional services businesses.
– The company plans to double down on growing more of that current business as well as bring more functionality and use cases into the fold.

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Total investments 301
Average round size 35M
Rounds per year 37.62
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 38
Follow on index 0.50
Exits 17
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

blackshark.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Geospatial
Machine Learning
Mapping Services
Smart Cities
$15M16 Nov 2023 Graz, Steiermark, Austria

HiddenLayer

Cyber Security
$50M19 Sep 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

d-Matrix

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Center
$110M06 Sep 2023 Santa Clara, California, United States

Unstructured Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Open Source
$25M20 Jul 2023 Sacramento, California, United States

Typeface

Artificial Intelligence
Content
Enterprise Software
Software
$100M30 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Deployed

SaaS
Software
$4M18 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Noble.AI

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
Software
$17M12 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

env0

Cloud Data Services
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$18M29 Mar 2023 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Hazy

Artificial Intelligence
Internet
Machine Learning
Software
$9M28 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
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