Microsoft Ventures, the tech giant’s venture capital investment arm, is now M12. The “M” in the name stands for Microsoft, and 12 stands for the 12 letters in the word… Read More
Workboard, a SaaS platform that helps companies execute their strategies, today announced a $9 million Series A round that included participation from Microsoft’s formal venture fund. Floodgate and new investor… Read More
Microsoft Ventures, Vulcan Capital, and Arnold Ventures are joining initial investor Voyager Capital in pumping $8.5 million into Make.tv, a Seattle-based cloud video management company, the company announced today. The… Read More
Seattle’s Make.tv, a cloud-based video management portal, has raised $7.2 million in new funding and aims to raise a total of $8.5 million, according to a new SEC filing. Make.tv’s… Read More
Ever feel like there’s just too much information out there? New York-based Agolo is hoping so. The startup is developing a program that summarizes large amounts of information using artificial intelligence… Read More
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story stated that Microsoft Ventures led the investing round. It was a participant in the round but did not lead it. Pickit, a… Read More
Microsoft and Airbus are investing in the future of autonomous drones that can communicate with one another as they fly through cities. AirMap, an airspace management startup for drones, announced… Read More
SnapRoute, a networking startup formed by Apple engineers, announced Tuesday that it secured $25 million in a Series A venture funding round with new investments from AT&T and Microsoft Ventures. The… Read More
Microsoft continues to bet on artificial intelligence technology and on Monday unveiled a new Microsoft Ventures fund that focuses strictly on AI startups. The fund, part of the company’s investment… Read More
With the proliferation of so many messaging apps, from Facebook Messenger to WhatsApp to Snapchat, it may seem like SMS texting is not relevant anymore. Zipwhip’s latest fundraising round certainly proves that… Read More
DefinedCrowd, a platform that provides big data for speech and natural language processing technology, closed a $1.1 million seed funding round from Amazon’s $100 million Alexa Fund, Sony Innovation Fund and… Read More
Two investments announced by Microsoft Ventures this week provide additional insight into the types of startups that the company’s newly announced venture fund will be backing. Microsoft Ventures participated along with Canvas Ventures… Read More
Microsoft has launched its first formal venture fund, planning to make new investments in companies that align with its own interests in areas including cloud computing, enterprise technologies and machine learning. The… Read More
Microsoft Ventures today announced its third batch of Seattle Accelerator startups that are focusing on machine learning and data science. Microsoft’s accelerator in Seattle first launched in 2014 with a cohort of home automation… Read More
Microsoft Ventures has a new leader. Fortune reported Monday that Nagraj Kashyap, who spent the past 12 years heading up Qualcomm Ventures, will now help Microsoft grow its own startup investment program. A… Read More
Microsoft announced the third installment of its Microsoft Ventures Seattle Accelerator on Wednesday, this time focusing on data science and machine learning. In a world where we’re creating more data then… Read More
For the past four months, 14 startups have been working their way through Microsoft Ventures’ Seattle accelerator, which sifted through hundreds of applications to find the country’s most promising tech entrepreneurs in… Read More
Some may find it hard to believe that video games are a major spectator sport with professional players, but this new development takes it to a whole new level: Starting today, you… Read More
When Unikrn CEO Rahul Sood took the stage at GeekWire Startup Day, he opened with the time he told Michael Dell to f**k off. It was 2005, many years after… Read More
Microsoft Ventures just opened applications for a new startup accelerator in Seattle focused on “digital work,” aiming to boost startups that want to make people more productive. According to a… Read More
Rahul Sood, the General Manager of Microsoft Ventures, isn’t thrilled by the idea of Startup Weekend events exclusively for women, calling them “pointless” in a Tweet this afternoon just days… Read More
Microsoft announced today that it is launching a new startup accelerator in Redmond focused on home automation and the Internet of Things, in partnership with American Family Insurance. It’s designed… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO–A quartet of venture capitalists spoke about funding new startups as a part of a panel discussion at today’s Launch Festival in San Francisco. The conversation inevitably turned to… Read More
For the third time in the past four months, Microsoft Ventures is investing in a seed-stage startup. Microsoft’s newly-formed unit that consolidated startup-oriented programs under one roof today announced an investment… Read More
Microsoft Ventures announced today that it has expanded its investment portfolio to include Ranku, a service that aims to be the Yelp for students looking to go to back to… Read More
Even big companies face significant hurdles launching new products. As it turns out, Microsoft Ventures, the company’s new umbrella program for startups, almost had trouble launching on time. “Somebody registered… Read More
Microsoft announced today that its startup programs are all going to be brought under one roof with a new name: Microsoft Ventures. The program is designed to create a single nexus for… Read More