Michelle Gonzalez
Microsoft's Venture Fund at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Member Board of Directors
2024 - Current
Board Observer
2023
Talent Development via Coaching, Training and Mentoring
GrowthSpace is a talent development platform that enables the personalized learning and development of employees.
Raised $44,001,000.00 from M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Zeev Ventures and Vertex Ventures.
Member Board of Directors
2022
SpyCloud is the leader in Cybercrime Analytics. Their solutions transform recaptured darknet data to protect businesses from cyberattacks.
Raised $168,500,000.00 from Riverwood Capital and Silverton Partners.
Member Board Of Directors
2021
Next-Level Sales Productivity
Databook’s Strategic Relationship Management (SRM) platform uses advanced AI to empower the world’s largest B2B sales teams
Raised $71,000,000.00 from M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, DFJ Growth, Haystack, Founders.ai, Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures and Threshold.
Board Member- Audit and Compensation Committees (NASDAQ: TASK)
2022
Delivering Ridiculously Good next-generation digital outsourcing to the most innovative brands in the world.
TaskUs is a customer care and back office support company that helps companies provide exceptional experiences for their customers.
Raised $279,000,000.00 from Blackstone Group.
CVP and Global Head of M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund
2021
I lead M12, Microsoft's corporate venture capital fund focused on early-stage investments in the areas of cloud and data infrastructure, Developer Tools (incl. GitHub Fund), cybersecurity, metaverse/Web3, enterprise SaaS and Gen AI. We harness the power of Microsoft to help today’s most innovative startups become tomorrow’s technology leaders.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
CEO and Co-Founder
2010
Ravi Belani (Alchemist Accelerator) and I co-founded the Influencer Series, a community of technology ecosystem leaders. We have hosted over 90 roundtable dinners with over 4,000 founders, investors and executives. -Sample Participants: Sam Altman, fmr. President Y Combinator, Open AI, Logan Green, CEO Lyft, Jeff Lawson, CEO Twilio, Katerina Lake, founder, Stitchfix, Andrew Ng, Co-founder Coursera, Matthew Prince, CEO Cloudflare
Board Observer (Acquired by Workday)
2022 - 2024
Evisort is on a mission to change how companies interact with their most important legal documents. Workday has announced their intention to acquire Evisort.
Evisort is an AI-powered platform for managing contracts through their lifecycle, including creation, analysis, and reporting.
Raised $155,794,988.00 from General Atlantic, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Amity Ventures, Breyer Capital, Vertex Ventures and TCV.
Managing Partner, Area 120
2019 - 2021
Lead Area 120, Google's internal incubator with 20+ teams building new and innovative products and businesses at Google Latinx Leadership Council at Google - Pillar Lead. The LLC aims to attract, advance and retain Latinx leaders at Google by providing leadership and guidance through our pillars to Google community.
Director, Office of the CEO
2018 - 2019
Special projects in the Office of the CEO
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Partner, IBM Ventures
2016 - 2018
Identify and diligence strategic partnership and acquisition opportunities with a focus on artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing. Advise IBM's Fortune 500 clients on innovation initiatives and partnerships with start-ups. Special projects for Office of the CEO.
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.