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Todd Graham

Managing Partner at M12

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Todd Graham is a Managing Partner at M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, with a focus on early-stage investments in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and developer tools in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in senior roles at Cisco and VMware, Todd has invested in companies like Bolster AI and Zero Networks, demonstrating expertise in identifying and supporting innovative startups in the cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2022 - Current

    Leading series A & B investments in developer tools, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure ❤️Open source and sarcasm

M12 is the venture capital arm of Microsoft that invests in early-stage companies.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

    MFA based segmentation to defend against ransomware

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

    Securing developer access in an insecure world

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

    Access management for third-party integrations

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

    The real time data engineering service you already know how to use

Decodable is a serverless data integration and engineering platform for streaming data.

Raised $25,500,000.00 from Venrock, DJ Patil, Bossa Invest, Olivier Pomel, Perkins Cove Partner, Jason Forget, Harpoon, Bain Capital Ventures, Spencer Kimball and Zero Prime Ventures.

  • VP

    2019 - 2022

    Venture investor focused on early-stage enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, and developer tools.

Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies.

  • Senior Director, Corporate Strategy

    2019 - 2019

  • Director, Security Strategy

    2016 - 2019

    Focused on developing broader product and market strategy for the Security Business Group.

Cisco DevNet is your source for everything developer at Cisco Systems.

  • Advisor

    2016 - 2016

    Worked with funded, early-stage start-ups. Specializing in SaaS strategy. - Product management exercises to drive MVP prioritization - Product positioning for market entry - General marketing efforts including websites

  • Co-founder, Product & Technology

    2013 - 2016

    CTO responsible for technology and product management, including R&D. - Designed big data stack and architecture (MongoDB, Cloudera, Storm, Hadoop) + modern front end (Angular, Bootstrap) on AWS - Worked directly with betas and customers to determine product requirements and prioritization - Did a lot of selling & fund raising - Managed development team, implemented processes and tooling - So. Many. Other. Hats.

Bluenose helps SaaS companies grow and retain their customers.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from Norwest Venture Partners and Social Capital.

  • Director, Management Business Unit

    2011 - 2013

    Strategy development for Management Business Unit. - Focused on identifying new market and technology opportunities. - Evaluating potential vendor partnerships. - Evangelism of selected opportunities across senior management

VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.

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