Introducing M12 – Microsoft’s Venture Fund
Today, Microsoft Ventures becomes M12. We’re proud of the team and portfolio we’ve built, and are excited to introduce this new name as an affirmation of our strategy: we invest in the best enterprise startups; we align with our founders by measuring ourselves on financial return, and we leverage some of the best enterprise assets […]
Improving the World through Artificial Intelligence
It has been over 6 months since we announced the Innovate.AI Global Startup Competition, offering early-stage startups using AI the chance to compete for a combined $3.5M in venture funding and up to $2M in Microsoft Azure credits to help progress the future of AI. We are arriving at the end of this journey, and […]
Introducing our Innovate.AI Finalists
We’ve been thrilled at the strong response to our Innovate.AI Global Startup competition, and I’m pleased to announce that we’ve finished selecting the AI finalists for each region. It’s been an exciting process, and I’ve personally enjoyed working across our team and with our VC partners to bring this competition to life. In North America, we’ve […]
Microsoft Ventures: Making the long bet on AI + People
Today, I’m excited to share another significant commitment by Microsoft to democratize AI, a new Microsoft Ventures fund for investment in AI companies focused on inclusive growth and positive impact on society. I also have an update about the growth of our overall portfolio of companies. AI holds great promise to augment human capabilities and improve […]
Ventures Reimagined
When I came to Microsoft earlier this year, I was driven by the opportunity to establish a corporate venture group that would create an additional channel to engage the start-up ecosystem. It would support not just company objectives, but our customers, partners and the ecosystem more broadly. The idea was that we would take an […]
