Alan Du

Partner at M12 - Microsoft’s Venture Fund

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Angel Investor
2025
FedRAMP in 90 Days for 90% less.
Investor & Board Observer
2025
Kite is building the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet. It is the first system that enables autonomous agents to authenticate, transact, and operate independently in real-world environments.
Angel Investor
2024
AI-powered and evidence-based digital asset intelligence automation platform https://x.com/cipherowl
Investor & Board Observer
2024
Hour One revolutionizes content creation for businesses by centralizing all workflows in one AI-powered platform. We boast the markets most lifelike avatars, featuring natural movements that vividly animate your business messages. Our templates, customizable to any brand, empower teams to craft personalized content at scale — no design or editing skills needed. Plus, with rapid rendering and top-tier security, Hour One stands out as the premier content operating system designed for enterprise demands. What used to take months, now only takes minutes and produces higher engagement... work smarter, not harder with Hour One and produce personalized business videos that drive impact.
Investor
2024
Prime’s AI Security Architect helps Product Security teams scale design-stage coverage without adding headcount by automating design reviews, surfacing missed risks, and delivering actionable mitigation guidance into developer workflows.
Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2023
Rasa is an enterprise platform for building and operating AI agents across chat and voice channels. Organizations use Rasa to orchestrate complex, multi-step conversations, integrate AI agents with core business systems, and run them reliably in production environments. Rasa supports long-running interactions that span channels and systems. The platform enables consistent agent behavior as conversations evolve, including escalation, recovery, and coordination across workflows. This allows enterprises to deploy AI agents that align with operational requirements rather than isolated use cases. Designed for large-scale deployments, Rasa supports secure operation across cloud and on-prem environments and integrates with existing data, APIs, and tooling. Enterprises adopt Rasa when they need control, scalability, and governance for AI agents supporting critical customer and employee interactions. Rasa was founded in 2016 and is privately held. The company is backed by Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Basis Set Ventures, PayPal Ventures, and StepStone Group.
Investor
Oct 2023
The Privacy, Governance & Compliance Operating System from Mine! As the #1 rated data privacy platform on G2, businesses prefer MineOS over the competition for its simplicity, unique automation, and ML-assisted features, which make quick work of compliance. Discover data quickly and thoroughly, highlight and act on relevant risks, manage data requests and customer consent beautifully, prevent breaches and ensure compliance stays effortless - with MineOS.
Investor
2023
Seal Security’s AppSec Remediation Agent delivers real, human-vetted, production-ready fixes for open source vulnerabilities - resolving risk directly in your applications without slowing teams down.
Investor
2023
Anzu is the most advanced intrinsic in-game ad solution for mobile, PC, console, and the metaverse. Anzu’s in-game ads put players first and help advertisers reach audiences programmatically in a non-disruptive and highly engaging way. A patented 3D ad tracking engine, the first to bring viewability measurement in-game with Oracle Moat and IAS, partnerships with trusted AdTech vendors, and compliant with the industry measurement standards outlined by the MRC and IAB make Anzu the preferred in-game advertising partner for brands and agencies worldwide. Anzu helps game developers monetize their titles with ad placements that complement the gameplay, and by monetizing the entire game session, they benefit from consistent and reliable revenue streams. Supporting all major and custom built game engines, and a full-stack ad monetization solution that provides complete control over ad placements makes Anzu the preferred in-game ad monetization partner for developers worldwide. Backed by Sony Innovation Fund, NBCUniversal, Samsung Next, Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund, WPP, PayPal Ventures and many other prominent investors, Anzu is on a mission to make advertising in games better. Better for brands, better for game developers, and better for gamers. Learn more at https://www.anzu.io/
Angel Investor
2023
Enterprises run on data, Flow secures it at runtime. With a runtime-first approach, Flow is a game-changer in the data security space, securing data itself, beyond the infrastructure it resides in. Leveraging runtime analysis, at-rest data scanning, and cloud scanning, Flow automatically discovers, classifies, and controls data in every state - at rest, in use, and in motion, ensuring real-time prevention of data leaks across cloud, on-premise, and third-party services. As the first and only data security platform utilizing eBPF, Flow sets a new standard in runtime analysis. Its deep data payload analysis, coupled with LLM-powered classifications, provides security teams with unprecedented accuracy and context of the complete data lifecycle - its origin, flow, and ownership. Deployable in minutes, Flow’s zero-impact solution empowers enterprises to enforce data policies and prevent data breaches in runtime.
Angel Investor
2023
A graph query engine for all your data. No ETL PuppyGraph enables you to query your data as a graph by directly connecting to your data warehouses and lakes. This eliminates the need to build and maintain time-consuming ETL pipelines needed with a traditional graph database setup. No more waiting for data and failed ETL processes. Deploy To Query In 10 Mins PuppyGraphs revolutionary query engine eliminates onboarding hassles that comes with a graph database, letting you deploy and start querying within just 10 minutes. Replacing an existing database? Effortlessly drop in PuppyGraph as the replacement, seamlessly connecting to third-party tools without the need for data or code migration. Petabyte-Level Scalability PuppyGraph eradicates graph scalability issues by separating computation and storage. Our auto-sharded, distributed computation effortlessly manages vast datasets. Querying directly from your warehouses, lakes, or multiple data sources, PuppyGraph empowers you to graph-query all your data, instead of only the data loaded into a graph database. 10-Hop Queries In Seconds PuppyGraph delivers lightning-fast results, handling complex multi-hop queries like 10-hop neighbors in seconds. Our patent-pending technology efficiently leverages all computing resources, ensuring exceptional performance. Want to take it to the next level? More machines, more performance.
Investor
2022
Deep Instinct is the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity. Deep learning is inspired by the brain’s ability to learn. Once a brain learns to identify an object, its identification becomes second nature. Similarly, as Deep Instinct’s artificial brain learns to detect any type of cyber threat, its prediction capabilities become instinctive. As a result, zero-day and APT attacks are detected and prevented in real-time with unmatched accuracy. Deep Instinct brings a completely new approach to cybersecurity that is proactive and predictive. Deep Instinct provides comprehensive defense that is designed to protect against the most evasive unknown malware in real-time, across an organization’s endpoints, servers, and mobile devices. Deep learning’s capabilities of identifying malware from any data source results in comprehensive protection on any device, any platform, and operating system.
Investor
2022
At Chaos Labs, were reimagining the future of DeFi with automated, on-chain economic security systems. Our mission is simple: Build trust and transparency in the financial markets of the future. Trusted by leading protocols like Aave, GMX, dYdX, LayerZero, Jupiter, Optimism, Arbitrum, and Venus, Chaos Labs transforms data on risk, security, and incentive strategies into powerful tools to guide the evolution of decentralized finance. Join us in revolutionizing decentralized finance with unparalleled security and efficiency.
Investor & Board Observer
2022
TrueML Technologies’ family of companies creates technology solutions seeking to revolutionize the experience of consumers seeking financial health and endeavors to ensure nobody gets locked out of the financial system. Learn more at www.trueml.co. TrueML Products is a fintech software company developing products that enable intelligent, digital communication and prioritize customer experience for consumers seeking financial health. Its flagship product Retain is an intelligent delivery platform that leverages a patented optimization engine to determine the optimal time and channel to deliver the client’s communications within the confines of the compliance requirements outlined by the client. TrueML Shared Services is a company of inspired data scientists, technologists, financial services industry experts, finance, legal, compliance, and human resource specialists, and customer experience fanatics serving entities within its corporate family. TrueML Products is a fintech software company developing products that enable intelligent, digital communication and prioritize customer experience for consumers seeking financial health.
Investor
2022
Magic is an SDK that enables companies to create instant web3 wallets with a web2 login (email, social) to optimize user conversion on their app. Our solution abstracts away the complexities of wallets and removes the need for seed phrases, browser extensions, or downloads. With enterprise-grade security and reliability, Magic gives companies peace of mind as their apps scale, all with just a few lines of code. At Magic, our mission is to onboard a billion users to web3 by helping companies break down barriers to adoption.
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2025
Angel Investor
2025
FedRAMP in 90 Days for 90% less.
Partner
2025
M12 is Microsoft’s corporate venture capital fund. We invest across key focus areas in the most promising early-stage companies that are disrupting markets in the business of today and tomorrow.
Investor & Board Observer
2025
Kite is building the foundational infrastructure for the agentic internet. It is the first system that enables autonomous agents to authenticate, transact, and operate independently in real-world environments.
2024
Angel Investor
2024
AI-powered and evidence-based digital asset intelligence automation platform https://x.com/cipherowl
Investor & Board Observer
2024
Hour One revolutionizes content creation for businesses by centralizing all workflows in one AI-powered platform. We boast the markets most lifelike avatars, featuring natural movements that vividly animate your business messages. Our templates, customizable to any brand, empower teams to craft personalized content at scale — no design or editing skills needed. Plus, with rapid rendering and top-tier security, Hour One stands out as the premier content operating system designed for enterprise demands. What used to take months, now only takes minutes and produces higher engagement... work smarter, not harder with Hour One and produce personalized business videos that drive impact.
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