Mony Hassid has spent 30+ years building corporate venture franchises from the ground up, leading Motorola Ventures in Israel, building Qualcomm Ventures' Israel office, and co-founding M12 in 2016 where he serves as a recognized signals conduit to Microsoft leadership, personally curating portfolio companies each quarter to present to CEO Satya Nadella on emerging technological shifts. He combines deep technical expertise from nearly a decade in R&D and engineering roles at Motorola Networks with a strong exit track record across multiple CVC platforms, including investments in 35+ startups with around 15 meaningful exits such as Mobileye's record-breaking NYSE IPO and acquisitions by Intel, Qualcomm, and Facebook.

• Prioritizing cybersecurity solutions that integrate early in the development lifecycle. Highlighted the shift left movement through an investment in WhiteSource to help enterprises automate open source security before problems arise.
• Backing infrastructure and DevOps tools that streamline cloud deployments. Led the Series A for env0 to empower developers with automated, collaborative workflow management for remote-run environments.
• Targeted focus on the Israeli startup ecosystem and EMEA region. Celebrated the unicorn status of Israel-based cloud security firm Aqua Security and brought on partners specifically to cover early-stage investments in that market.
• Connecting portfolio companies with broader corporate networks and advisory groups. Established the M12 CISO Network to bring together security executives from major enterprises to share industry insights and top-of-mind concerns.
• Long-term commitment to evolving tech trends like containerization. Noted that the investment in Aqua Security began back in 2016 because they correctly anticipated that security would become the biggest challenge in the growing container space.