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Michelle Gonzalez

CVP and Global Head of M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Board Member

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $6,000,000.00

Work Experience

2024

  • Member Board of Directors

    2024

  • Board Observer

    2023

    Talent Development via Coaching, Training and Mentoring

2022

  • Member Board of Directors

    2022

2021

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2021

    Next-Level Sales Productivity

2022

  • Board Member- Audit and Compensation Committees (NASDAQ: TASK)

    2022

    Delivering Ridiculously Good next-generation digital outsourcing to the most innovative brands in the world.

2021

  • 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.

  • 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

2022 - 2024

  • 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.

2018 - 2021

  • 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

2016 - 2018

  • 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.