Andrew Smyth
Managing Partner at M12
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2024 - Current
Early stage investing in cybersecurity & enterprise infrastructure
M12 is the venture capital arm of Microsoft that invests in early-stage companies.
Investor & Board Observer
2024
NeuBird is a first-of-its-kind cloud-based generative operations platform for enterprises.
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Mayfield Fund, StepStone Group and AIspace Ventures.
Investor
2024
Neon is an open-source database company that offers a serverless Postgres platform that allows developers to build applications.
Raised $129,600,000.00 from Notable Capital, Abstract, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Menlo Ventures and General Catalyst.
Investor
2017
Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive incident investigations.
Raised $352,540,000.00 from TCV, Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Accel, Blackstone Innovations Investments, Khosla Ventures, IA Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, Wipro Ventures, DAG Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures.
Investor
2016
Devo is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-native logging and security analytics for organizations.
Raised $481,000,000.00 from Eurazeo, Insight Partners, Kibo Ventures, General Atlantic, TCV, Bessemer Venture Partners, Isai and Georgian.
Investor & Board Member
2019
Elisity Cognitive Trust is a new security paradigm that combines Zero Trust Network Access and an AI-enabled Software Defined Perimeter.
Raised $78,500,000.00 from Insight Partners, AllegisCyber, Two Bear Capital, Hyperlink Ventures and Atlantic Bridge.
Investor
2022
ProjectDiscovery is an open-source software that simplifies security operations for engineers and developers.
Raised $26,700,000.00 from Rain Capital, Point72, Caleb Sima, Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Talha Tariq, Mango Capital, CRV, SignalFire and Guillermo Rauch.
Investor & Board Member
2020
Selector is a software company that provides AIOps platform for operational intelligence.
Raised $66,000,000.00 from Two Bear Capital, Ansa Capital, Hyperlink Ventures, AT&T Ventures, Bell Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, SineWave Ventures and Singtel Innov8.
Investor & Board Member
2022
Investor & Board Member
2020
Graphiant creates Network Edge to integrate the enterprise-grade performance of MPLS with agility and cost savings.
Raised $96,000,000.00 from 5G Open Innovation Lab.
Education
Master's Degree
2011 - 2012