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Microsoft Accelerator

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Total investments 250
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 220
Rounds per year 22.73
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 40
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

In 2013 was created Microsoft Accelerator, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Redmond. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Microsoft Accelerator works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Microsoft Accelerator the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Microsoft Accelerator, startups are often financed by Microsoft Accelerator Seattle, Right Side Capital Management, Microsoft Accelerator Paris. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Right Side Capital Management, Techstars, Pitango Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Microsoft Accelerator Beijing, Microsoft Accelerator Berlin, Pitango Venture Capital.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CloudFlare, Siemplify, EverString Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mistikist

Education
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$35K01 Apr 2023 -

Covercy

Commercial Real Estate
FinTech
Payments
Real Estate Investment
$4M01 Jan 2021 New York, New York, United States

NMLStream

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Management
$3M17 Mar 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Siemplify

Business/Productivity Software
Cyber Security
Network Management Software
Network Security
Security
Software
$4M18 Feb 2016 New York, United States

Cronofy

Developer APIs
SaaS
Software
$1M29 Jan 2016 England

Inthera Bioscience

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$4M14 Dec 2015 Zurich, Switzerland

Hermetic Security

Financial Services
Mobile
Security
$800K01 Nov 2015 North District

StockRadar

Analytics
Big Data
Finance
Information Technology
Software
22 Sep 2015 Beijing

Qingsong

Cloud Management
Enterprise
SaaS
Software
$8M25 Aug 2015 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

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Total investments 250
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 22.73
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 40
Group Appearance index 0.30

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mistikist

Education
Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$35K01 Apr 2023 -

Covercy

Commercial Real Estate
FinTech
Payments
Real Estate Investment
$4M01 Jan 2021 New York, New York, United States

NMLStream

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Management
$3M17 Mar 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Siemplify

Business/Productivity Software
Cyber Security
Network Management Software
Network Security
Security
Software
$4M18 Feb 2016 New York, United States

Cronofy

Developer APIs
SaaS
Software
$1M29 Jan 2016 England

Inthera Bioscience

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$4M14 Dec 2015 Zurich, Switzerland

Hermetic Security

Financial Services
Mobile
Security
$800K01 Nov 2015 North District

StockRadar

Analytics
Big Data
Finance
Information Technology
Software
22 Sep 2015 Beijing

Qingsong

Cloud Management
Enterprise
SaaS
Software
$8M25 Aug 2015 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
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