Nous Research
Open-source AI models and the Hermes agent, which retains project memory and reusable skills across tasks.
$90MSeries B
ParticipantM
M12
Activity from announced rounds
Activity in this selectionAI
M12 is Microsoft’s venture capital fund, investing from seed through Series B in AI applications, AI security, cloud infrastructure, data operations and foundational enterprise technologies.
Its investment strategy is closely aligned with Microsoft. The fund works to connect portfolio companies with customers, commercial opportunities and relevant Microsoft teams rather than offering capital as an isolated relationship.
Its work with Inworld included connections to Xbox and other game studios. That illustrates how a corporate investment relationship can help a startup reach a particular product ecosystem and the companies building within it.
Sources
- Rounds participated in
- 10
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 0 5 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 10 First participation on record · 0 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $729.3M 9 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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Rounds
10 in this selectionMantic
An AI forecasting company that produces probability-based outlooks on global events to help business and government decision-makers anticipate risks and opportunities.
$25MSeed
ParticipantArcee AI
Open-weight language models and deployment tools that let organizations adapt and run AI on infrastructure they control.
≥$150MSeries B
ParticipantGimlet Labs
Provides a cloud inference platform and compiler that distribute AI workloads across different processor types.
$300MSeries B
ParticipantHiddenLayer
HiddenLayer sells cybersecurity software built specifically to protect AI models, agents and applications. Its platform discovers AI assets, scans models and their supply chains, tests for adversarial attacks and monitors deployed systems for threats across the AI development and operating lifecycle.
$100MSeries B
ParticipantnEye.ai
Develops integrated optical interconnects for AI data centers
$80MSeries C
Role not disclosedNeuBird AI
Builds agentic AI for enterprise IT operations that automates incident detection and root cause analysis
$19.3MUndisclosed
Role not disclosedKnox Systems
Provides AI-managed cloud for FedRAMP authorization
$25MSeries A
Role not disclosedDidero
Uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement for manufacturers and distributors
$30MSeries A
Role not disclosedEntire
Offers tools to manage and review AI-generated code for developers
$60MSeed
Role not disclosed