Microsoft’s M12 lays out investment strategy, aims to make the corporate VC community more ‘founder-friendly’
26 March 2019 9:30 AM GMT
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- Nagraj Kashyap, corporate vice president and global head of M12, speaks at the M12 Summit.
- The impact was not only the ability to transform, their support equation, but to start to make automation work at scale and they saw an impact across not just Microsoft, but potential for all of Microsoft’s customers,” Directly CEO Antony Brydon told GeekWire.
- Directly is one of 78 companies Microsoft’s venture capital arm M12 has invested in since it was founded three years ago.
- That is actually the biggest thing we do,” Nagraj Kashyap, corporate vice president and global head of M12 said about helping companies out post-investment.
- Last week, M12 representatives, venture capital firms, Microsoft executives and leaders of the nearly 80 portfolio companies came together for the first time at the inaugural M12 Summit.
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