Microsoft Ventures

What is Microsoft Ventures?

Microsoft Ventures, now known as M12 - Microsoft's Venture Capital Fund, serves as a strategic partner for early-stage companies globally, facilitating their growth by providing both industrial strength technology and marketable products. Concentrating on B2B startups, they offer their investments considerable access to their broad global market routes. Since their inception in 2008, Microsoft Ventures has assisted over 85,000 startups in 165 countries through their BizSpark program which offers startups free software and support for three years.

Operating worldwide, they have founded accelerators and initiated the Bing Fund in 2012, which makes seed investments. They invest in a diverse range of focus areas such as AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, Vertical SaaS, and Web3 plus gaming. Their commitment is to accelerate the future of technology by investing in startups that offer innovative ways to transform how we live and work.

The fund’s investment ranges from a minimum of $8,500,000 to a maximum of $32,500,000, nurturing these startups into the technology leaders of tomorrow. M12 leverages the power of Microsoft to support their portfolio companies, offering them unique benefits and connecting them to a larger network.

Their website also indicates a partnership with GitHub, signifying a strategy that is tightly interwoven with Microsoft, creating exceptional value through such synergies.