Elliott Robinson has been a partner at M12 Ventures, software provider Microsoft’s corporate venturing subsidiary formerly known as Microsoft Ventures, since November 2016. Before this, he spent more than a decade of experience making entrepreneurial investments, half focusing on series A and B and the other half on series C, D and E.
Robinson was previously a vice-president at Canada-based growth equity firm Georgian Partners, a commercial strategy and financial services consultant at US-based government management and information technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, and an analyst and associate at US-based Syncom Venture Partners.
At M12, an early to growth-stage investment fund, Robinson manages technology investments in artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, big data analytics and data science, cloud infrastructure and enterprise software-as-a-service.
He led deals last year in several US-based companies, including a $32m series B round for enterprise cloud computing technology developer Rescale in July 2018, a $105m series E round for healthcare assistance platform developer Livongo Health in April 2018, and a $5m series A round for customer success measurement platform Cerebri AI in January 2018, where he sits on the board.
Aside from his corporate venturing efforts, Robinson has, since its establishment in 2017, been a director at BLCK VC, a VC networking community of black investors which fellow Rising Star Brian Hollins helped to found. With an MBA in private equity finance and leadership and ethics from Columbia Business School, he is also a fellow at InSite, a network for entrepreneurs and VCs who have graduated from leading universities.
