Jason Mcbride
Partner at M12
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner, B2B AI Applications
2025 - Current
Investing in the app layer at AIX Ventures; San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2021, specializing in early-stage investments in artificial intelligence (AI) startups. Some of our notable investments include Perplexity, Windsurf, Weights & Biases, and Hugging Face.
Investor
2024
Zenity is a leading governance and security platform for low-code and no-code SaaS applications ranging from Power Platform, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Copilot for M365, and Copilot Studio (i.e., drag and drop app development that eliminates the need for traditional developers who write code). The base capabilities of the solution are: (1) asset inventory, (2) vulnerability analysis/categorization and (3) vulnerability remediation.
Board Observer and Investor
2024
Builder.io is a SaaS-based visual headless content management system (CMS) with a focus toward AI-driven design and development. The solution provides developers the ability to pick and choose how they want to customize applications while simultaneously granting specific rights to non-technical stakeholders so they can make meaningful contributions via visual editor to various properties such as landing pages, marketing websites, ecommerce storefronts, mobile apps, and internal applications.
Builder.io caters drag-and-drop visual editor, a headless content management system, and Developer Tools.
Raised $37,250,000.00 from M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Investor
2023
HiddenLayer, a Gartner recognized AI Application Security company, is a provider of security solutions for machine learning algorithms, models & the data that power them. With a first-of-its-kind, non-invasive software approach to observing & securing ML, HiddenLayer is helping to protect the world’s most valuable technologies. Founded in March of 2022 by experienced security and ML professionals, HiddenLayer is based in Austin, Texas.
HiddenLayer provides a software-based platform that helps enterprises monitor the inputs and outputs of machine-learning algorithms.
Raised $56,249,922.00 from Secure Octane, Moore Strategic Ventures, Ten Eleven Ventures, IBM Ventures, Aro Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Booz Allen Ventures and Capital One Ventures.
Investor
2023
Developer of SaaS based tax management software designed to help businesses save tax. The company's platform offers to form an entity, create a business bank account, set up payroll, and organize ledger books, enabling self-employed people to form their businesses and track income and expenses in a safe and compliant manner.
Collective offers financial solutions designed for self-employed business owners such as company formation, tax, accounting, & bookkeeping.
Raised $78,650,000.00 from Innovius Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Expa, QED Investors, The General Partnership, Gradient and General Catalyst.
Investor
2024
Mermaid Chart is a markdown-like tool that uses text-based definitions to create and modify diagrams. With Mermaid Chart's SaaS solution, enterprises receive a suite of tools which support a constantly evolving landscape; one that calls for a simple yet powerful solution for creating diagrams and charts of varying complexity.
Building the next generation of smart diagramming for enterprise teams. Easily create and collaborate on complex diagrams from text.
Raised $9,575,000.00 from Irregular Expressions, Gaingels, Anorak Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, v1.vc, Good Friends, Elefund, Dave Gilboa, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund and Sequoia Capital.
Investor
2020
A financial platform that provides a source of cash for managing finances prior to payday. The company's platform is easy to integrate with existing payroll systems and provides up to half of the earned wage on-demand for a small fee similar to an ATM fee, thereby enabling businesses to provide their employees with an alternative source for cash and avoid payday loans.
Rain offers early wage access and financial wellness benefit for mid-market to enterprise employers.
Raised $428,600,000.00 from Spark Growth Ventures.
Board Observer and Investor
2025 - 2025
Solve Intelligence is a legal technology startup that leverages artificial intelligence to streamline and enhance the patent application process. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in London, the company offers an AI-powered, in-browser document editor designed to assist patent attorneys and inventors in drafting, prosecuting, and managing patent applications efficiently.
Investor & Strategic Advisor
2019 - 2025
SaaS platform leveraging AI for creating, discovering, and sharing touch and voice-controlled interactive videos. Notable investors include Quake Capital, Fission Ventures, and John Legend.
Adventr is a SaaS platform for the creation of voice & touch controlled interactive video and its distribution across any network/player.
Raised $14,014,288.00 from Paladin Capital Group, In/Visible Ventures, Reinventure Capital, John Legend, In/Visible Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Reinventure Capital, Bryson Bort and Alumni Ventures.
Investor
2025 - 2025
Glean is a workplace search and knowledge management platform designed to help employees quickly find the information they need across various tools and systems within an organization. It uses AI to unify data from multiple sources—like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Salesforce, Confluence, and more—into a single, searchable interface.
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company.
Raised $618,200,000.00 from Coatue, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, ICONIQ Growth, Cacti, Latitude Capital, Craft Ventures, Altimeter, Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund.