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Microsoft

Founders Bill Gates Paul Allen

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Total investments 268
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$685M
Portfolio companies 231
Rounds per year 5.47
Lead investments 51
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 43
Key employees 30
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
Summary

Microsoft is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1975. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Redmond.

The fund was created by Bill Gates, Paul Allen. The overall number of key employees were 18.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Hardware, Enterprise Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Facebook, Uber, Flipkart The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Microsoft, startups are often financed by Andreessen Horowitz, HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Cisco, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Evergreen Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, Intel Capital.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Microsoft works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The typical startup value when the investment from Microsoft is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bright Machines

Computer
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Robotics
Software
$106M25 Jun 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Enveda Biosciences

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$55M14 Jun 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Wayve

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer
Electric Vehicle
Machine Learning
Software
$1B06 May 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

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Artificial Intelligence
$675M24 Feb 2024 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Artificial Intelligence
$675M23 Feb 2024 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Torus Robotics

Manufacturing
$470K07 Feb 2024 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Tavolo

E-Commerce
Mobile Apps
Restaurants
$1M11 Oct 2023 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

MCM CLEARING PTY LTD

Freight Service
$1K15 Jun 2023 Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Caustaza

$126K30 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 268
Average round size 685M
Rounds per year 5.47
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 51
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 43
Group Appearance index 0.59

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bright Machines

Computer
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Manufacturing
Robotics
Software
$106M25 Jun 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Enveda Biosciences

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$55M14 Jun 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Wayve

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer
Electric Vehicle
Machine Learning
Software
$1B06 May 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

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Artificial Intelligence
$675M24 Feb 2024 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Figure

Artificial Intelligence
$675M23 Feb 2024 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Torus Robotics

Manufacturing
$470K07 Feb 2024 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Tavolo

E-Commerce
Mobile Apps
Restaurants
$1M11 Oct 2023 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

MCM CLEARING PTY LTD

Freight Service
$1K15 Jun 2023 Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Caustaza

$126K30 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
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