GCV Emerging Leader Michael Stewart has taken up a partner role at Microsoft’s M12 subsidiary after a six-year stint at another corporate venture capital unit, Applied Ventures.
Michael Stewart has departed from Applied Ventures, part of semiconductor technology producer Applied Materials, and joined M12, another US-based corporate venturing group formed by software provider Microsoft, as a partner.
Applied Ventures had hired Stewart in 2015 as a principal before promoting him to an investment director position three and a half years later.
His duties included identifying and investing in deep technology developers focusing on areas such as advanced materials, biomedical equipment, the industrial internet of things, energy generation…
