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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 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.

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