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Andrew Smyth

Managing Partner at M12

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Andrew Smyth is the Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund in Palo Alto, California. He has an extensive background in investing and serving on the boards of various tech companies, focusing on sectors like Semiconductors, Cybersecurity, and AI, among others. Notable highlights of his career include his role at M12 and his involvement in investments and board positions at companies like Seemplicity and Vectra AI.

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.

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