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 Member
2022
Investor
2021
SOC Prime is the Threat Detection Marketplace where researchers monetize their content to help security teams defend against attacks.
Raised $11,000,000.00 from Rembrandt Venture Partners, Streamlined Ventures, DNX Ventures and Digital Future.
Investor & Board Member
2021
Investor & Board Member
2021
AttackIQ is a security optimization platform that enables a seamless threat-informed defense across its customers' security organizations.
Raised $75,900,000.00 from North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures), Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Bossa Invest, Salesforce Ventures, Gaingels, Trajectory Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, Titanium Ventures and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures.
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.
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.
Board Member
2019
Data analytics and AI solutions for optimizing the multi trillion dollar pharmaceutical manufacturing industry
Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Raised $43,625,000.00 from Uncork Capital, NewVale Capital, Crosslink Capital and Atlantic Bridge.
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
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.
Education
Master's Degree
2011 - 2012