James Wu
Principal at M12
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Dataology (Series A) AKA Identity (Seed) Space and Time (Seed) Unstructured (Series A)
Principal
2019
Arkose Labs (Ser B) At-Bay (Ser C) Databook (Ser A) inVia Robotics (Ser C) SuperAwesome (Ser B; Acquired by Epic Games) Truepic (Ser B) Pachyderm (Ser B; Acquired by HPE)
Investor
2018 - 2019
Applied Intuition (Ser B), Bakkt (Ser A), Go1 (Ser B, C, D), Incorta (Ser B), Innovaccer (Ser B), Markforged (Ser D --> SPAC), Syntiant (Ser B), Skedulo (Ser B, C)
M12 is the venture capital arm of Microsoft that invests in early-stage companies.
Investor
2024
Angel
2020
Angel Investments in fintech, web 3.0, infrastructure software. - Bitwave - ChaosLabs (https://chaoslabs.xyz/) - Mercury - Pipe.com - Uplink
Investor
2023
Unstructured is an enterprise ETL tool that automatically transforms complex, unstructured data into clean, structured data for GenAI.
Raised $65,000,000.00 from IBM Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Chet Kapoor, Allison Pickens, Menlo Ventures, Mango Capital, Madrona, NVentures and The New Normal Fund.
Board Observer & Investor
2022
Board Director & Investor
2021
Truepic is a visual media platform used in bolstering the value of authentic photos and videos and evaluate their trustworthiness.
Raised $36,500,000.00 from Adobe, Hearst Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, Stone Point Capital and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.
Board Director & Investor
2021
InVia Robotics develops automation for warehouse operations, focusing on inventory management and order fulfillment processes.
Raised $59,000,000.00 from Embark Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Upfront Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund and Qualcomm Ventures.
Board Director & Investor
2020
Arkose Labs protects enterprises from cybercrime and abuse.
Raised $106,467,749.00 from PayPal Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and Ballistic Ventures.
Board Observer & Investor
2019
Skedulo is a workforce management and scheduling platform for deskless workers.
Raised $113,953,601.00 from Queensland Investment Corporation.
Board Observer & Investor
2018