Lisa Nelson co-founded and led Microsoft's venture fund M12, where she built the portfolio development function that systematically created commercial value for startups through deep connections into Microsoft's product, sales, and partner ecosystems. As an advisor to Flying Fish Partners, she brings this hands-on, go-to-market experience along with her role leading M12's VC engagement team that co-invested with other top-tier funds, giving her deep familiarity with how different types of investors work together on cap tables.
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Flying Fish Partners
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Flying Fish Partners is a Pacific Northwest-focused venture capital fund led by ex-operators from Microsoft, Amazon, and other major tech companies who built AI/ML products, concentrating specifically on artificial intelligence investments organized around Foundational AI & Infrastructure, Applied Intelligence, and Hard Sciences. The fund targets frontier AI applications in challenging domains like industrial systems, biology, and robotics, backed by an unusually senior team including Fortune 100 executives who provide seed-stage founders with board-level expertise typically unavailable from small AI-focused funds.
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