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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.

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

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :

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 …

Passwordless authentication platform Trusona raises $20M led by Georgian Partners, with participation from Microsoft's M12, Kleiner Perkins, Akamai, others

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :

Evisort raises $15M Series A co-led by Microsoft's investment arm M12 for its AI-powered contract management software

Nat Levy / GeekWire :

Enterprise sales intelligence startup Tact.ai raises $27M Series C led by Amazon's Alexa Fund, Microsoft's M12, Salesforce Ventures, and Comcast Ventures

Tact.ai, a Redwood City, California-based enterprise intelligence startup, announced today that it closed a $27 million funding round led …