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A look at tech companies' investments in AI startups: Nvidia and NVentures completed a total of 32 deals in 2023, while Microsoft and M12 made 21 investments

Just last week it was reported chip giant Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures 1 and Cisco all participated in a $450 million investment for Toronto-based AI startup Cohere.

Austin-based HiddenLayer, which focuses on hardening the security of AI models used by companies, raised a $50M Series A led by M12 and Moore Strategic Ventures

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Sources: Microsoft's M12 has sold shares of some of its portfolio companies at 30% to 70% discount on secondary exchanges; Microsoft says it sold <10 companies

Sources: Microsoft's M12 has sold shares of some of its portfolio companies at 30% to 70% discount on secondary exchanges; Microsoft says it sold <10 companies

- M12, Microsoft's venture firm, is offloading some of its portfolio on secondary exchanges, sources say.

Microsoft and decentralized data service Space and Time, in which M12 invested, partner to offer developers real-time blockchain data from the Azure Marketplace

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Google's Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Exynos modems, affecting some Samsung, Vivo, and Google phones as well as wearables and vehicles

do this before you're next Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Google discovers 18 vulnerabilities in multiple Samsung chips Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Baseband RCE flaws in Samsung's Exynos...

Typeface, which offers generative AI for marketing copy and images, emerges from stealth with $65M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, M12, and Menlo Ventures

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Tel Aviv-based Valence Security, which helps secure SaaS supply chains, raised a $25M Series A led by Microsoft's M12, with Akamai and others participating

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Arkansas-based Insite, which uses AI to help price, distribute, and promote packaged goods, raised a $19M Series A from NewRoad Capital and Microsoft's M12

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Tel Aviv-based Ox Security, which improves software supply chain security, raised a $34M seed from Microsoft's M12 and others, and says it has 30+ customers

The rise in software supply chain attacks, like the SolarWinds hack, prompted last year's executive order from the Biden Administration …