Microsoft

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a wide array of software products and services. The company is best known for its Windows operating system and Microsoft Office suite, which are widely used in consumer and business applications. In addition to software, Microsoft offers gaming hardware, including Xbox consoles and accessories, as well as various consumer devices like Surface tablets. The company's commercial offerings include server products, cloud services through Microsoft Azure, and enterprise solutions like Microsoft Dynamics for customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning. Microsoft also runs a global network of accelerators that support startups by providing mentorship, technical training, and resources, fostering innovation in technology and business development. Through its diverse portfolio and initiatives, Microsoft aims to empower individuals and organizations to achieve more.

Lillian Barnard

CEO and Board Member

Erin Burchfield

Global Director, Microsoft Philanthropies - Tech for Social Impact

Alexia Cambon

Senior Director, Research

Shinesa Cambric

Principal Product Manager

Roberto Croci

Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups MEA

Yuval Eldar

Partner GM IoT / OT Security

Bill Gates

Co-Founder

Nir Giller

Partner and Director of IoT and OT Security

Rashida Hodge

VP, Azure Data and AI | Customer Success

Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Corporate Vice President

Nagraj Kashyap

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft. Global head, M12 (fka Microsoft Ventures)

Philip Meyer

Partner Technology Strategist - Hosting and Cloud

Brandon Middaugh

Senior Director, Climate Innovation Fund

Arindam Mukherjee

Director - Azure Business, Microsoft India

Satya Nadella

CEO

Mohammed Saleh

Health Director

Theresa Sue

Microsoft Partner

Emilia Zarei

Founder and CEO

Past deals in CRM

Laiye

Series A in 2016
Laiye is a digital workforce platform that enhances organizational productivity by integrating AI Agents and intelligent automation capabilities. The platform offers tools for robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent document processing (IDP), enabling businesses to streamline operations and improve outcomes. Laiye's automation process platform simulates human tasks, allowing for the automatic processing of emails and documents, generating reports, and managing data entry in customer relationship management systems. By leveraging these technologies, Laiye helps enterprises increase efficiency and reduce operational costs.

Convert Lab

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
A marketing cloud that automates and personalizes marketing campaigns based on journeys of clients, and one that performs cross-channel management.

Laiye

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Laiye is a digital workforce platform that enhances organizational productivity by integrating AI Agents and intelligent automation capabilities. The platform offers tools for robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent document processing (IDP), enabling businesses to streamline operations and improve outcomes. Laiye's automation process platform simulates human tasks, allowing for the automatic processing of emails and documents, generating reports, and managing data entry in customer relationship management systems. By leveraging these technologies, Laiye helps enterprises increase efficiency and reduce operational costs.

Cronofy

Seed Round in 2016
Cronofy Limited is a provider of a unified calendar API designed to integrate and manage activities across various calendar service providers, including Google Calendar, iCloud, Office 365, Exchange, and Outlook.com. Founded in 2011 and based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, the company offers a solution that facilitates appointment reminders, bookings, cancellations, CRM enhancements, mobile calendar synchronization, and team-wide scheduling. Cronofy focuses on delivering secure, real-time, two-way calendar connectivity for enterprises while prioritizing user privacy. Its platform aims to streamline time management for businesses and individuals, making it easier for them to organize their schedules effectively.

Kemai

Seed Round in 2015
Kemai is the free individual customer management tool.

Rexter

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Rexter, LLC is a technology company based in Altadena, California, that specializes in professional relationship management through its innovative cloud-based application. The platform integrates data from users' emails, calendars, contacts, and phone calls to create a comprehensive relationship history for each individual in their network. By employing algorithms to analyze this information, Rexter prioritizes relationships based on the user's goals and key contacts, enabling professionals to strategically focus their networking efforts. This tool is particularly beneficial for frontline sales professionals, as it provides insights into which connections are most likely to drive business growth. Rexter aims to enhance the effectiveness of networking by ensuring that users can easily manage and mobilize their professional relationships without losing track of important connections.

Outleads

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Outleads, a Microsoft Ventures accelerator company, enables to advertise online based on offline activity. Their patented technology pushes data from CRMs, contact centers phone and chat, marketing automation, e-mail marketing, and similar software to Google Analytics so advertisers can leverage it in AdWords. For example, advertisers can target leads that expressed interest in a product over a phone call or chat session but didn't buy; leads that were sent an e-mail campaign in HubSpot and opened but didn’t click it; leads with a certain status in Salesforce; etc. Outleads integrates with leading contact center software, including Genesys, Five9, and more.

Socedo

Venture Round in 2015
Socedo, Inc., based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in automated social media lead generation solutions tailored for B2B marketers. Founded in 2011, the company utilizes social intent data from platforms like Twitter to identify potential prospects who demonstrate interest in specific areas. Socedo's system enables clients to connect with these leads based on real-time behaviors, such as interactions with competitors or relevant keywords. In addition to discovering new prospects, Socedo enhances existing lead data by providing demographic and behavioral insights, which can be integrated into marketing automation platforms like Marketo. This capability allows marketers to engage with leads effectively, monitor their social media activities, and identify sales opportunities. Notable clients include brands such as Microsoft and F5.

ProHance

Venture Round in 2015
ProHance is a cutting edge, global operations management platform. Top Fortune companies are using ProHance in their global centers to unlock the true value of their human capital. ProHance is enabling organizations to drive efficiency while optimizing employee utilization with deep insights on employee and team performance. Our SaaS-based modular approach allows an enterprise to effectively measure time and effort contribution with over a 100 + customizable reports. Our clients trust ProHance and have experienced productivity gains of 15% – 30% in less than 3 months of deploying our solution. With 130,000 + users across 19 countries. ProHance is fast being accepted as a critical enabler for organizations to build a workforce that is visible, connected, integrated, and efficient. ProHance helps you view your operations holistically and identify opportunities for collaboration & optimization across your Enterprise. It helps you unlock the full potential of your Human Capital and Digital Investments by identifying how your teams spend time that impacts your customers and enterprise. The visibility and actionable analytics ProHance provides helps operations become more Lean, Agile and Customer Centric

Cronofy

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Cronofy Limited is a provider of a unified calendar API designed to integrate and manage activities across various calendar service providers, including Google Calendar, iCloud, Office 365, Exchange, and Outlook.com. Founded in 2011 and based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, the company offers a solution that facilitates appointment reminders, bookings, cancellations, CRM enhancements, mobile calendar synchronization, and team-wide scheduling. Cronofy focuses on delivering secure, real-time, two-way calendar connectivity for enterprises while prioritizing user privacy. Its platform aims to streamline time management for businesses and individuals, making it easier for them to organize their schedules effectively.

POWZY

Seed Round in 2014
POWZY provides a full solution for loyalty programs and customer relationship management. The mobile marketing technology engages and entertains consumers by adding game mechanics to loyalty programs, providing a professional, easy-to-launch and affordable solution to even the next door flower shop. They provide customer acquisition, engagement, and cross-industry purchase behavior analytics to B2C Companies. POWZY real-time bidding platform enables the value exchange between advertisers (who pay only for accomplished branding actions) and developers (who monetize their mobile apps and games, profiting from the non-paying users). It delivers 30 seconds of consumer attention, guaranteed.

Payever

Venture Round in 2014
Payever is a comprehensive commerce solution that supports the entire sales cycle for businesses. It offers an integrated platform that includes online shop and point of sale software, payment processing, customer relationship management, marketing tools, and inventory and shipping solutions. This seamless integration allows businesses to manage their operations efficiently as they grow. Payever's platform enables merchants to accept payments through various channels, including mail, invoices, websites, online shops, retail stores, and social media, thereby providing small businesses with the ability to compete with larger companies. With over 5,000 merchants utilizing its services, Payever is designed to adapt to the evolving needs of its users.

Profoundis Labs

Venture Round in 2014
Profoundis built Vibe (http://vibeapp.co/) which aggregates, curates and delivers inside information and intelligence about prospective customers. Vibe works seamlessly with existing sales and marketing tools to deliver the information when and where it is needed. Vibe solves 3 fold problems: 1) Sales people spends close to 20% of their total time on Prospect research 2) The data entry to CRMs are very cumbersome. As a result, most CRMs have rudimentary or incomplete data 3) Once the data is in the CRM, it is a pain to keep track of the status of the information and keep in updated. Together, these 3 problems makes sales person and CRMs less efficient. 1) View holistic, accurate, and relevant prospect & customer info - reduces 70% of research time by the sales people. 2) Appends each CRM record with personal, professional, social, contact & insights. - completely avoids the data entry difficulty for companies. 3) Checks for Updates regularly and updates automatically - Sales people gets to work with the most updated data.

FXiaoKe

Series B in 2014
FXiaoKe designs a cloud-based sales management platform that provides management tools for Chinese companies. Its platform provides services related to field operation management, distribution chain management and customer relationship management, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to manage their sales through a social interaction platform that combines features of dynamic CRM and enterprise WeChat. FXiaoKe develops enterprise software solutions. It offers online office automation services including sharing information between personal computers and smart phones. It also provides customer management services. Luo Xu founded FXiaoKe in December 2011, with its headquarters in Beijing, China.

Airdoc Solutions

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Airdoc Solutions specializes in developing web and mobile applications designed to enhance the productivity of sales professionals at trade shows, business meetings, and commercial events. By serving as a digital assistant, Airdoc optimizes prospecting efforts, enabling sales teams to improve their efficiency and personalize their approach to client interactions. The platform is eco-friendly and integrates seamlessly with corporate CRM systems, allowing for better management and follow-up of meetings. Additionally, Airdoc's applications leverage digital technology to innovate the distribution of literature and promotional materials, ensuring that exhibitors can effectively engage visitors and maximize the value derived from their participation in professional events.

Roojoom

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Roojoom is an omni-channel customer engagement platform for brands. Using Roojoom, companies create real-time personal customer experiences to accelerate customer engagement, onboarding, retention and fanfare across the entire customer lifecycle.

Evolero

Venture Round in 2014
Evolero is an event & conference management software that’s a one-stop-platform. It offers all online services and tools for conference planning and organizing. Sell your tickets online, manage your event ticketing and registration, offer your sponsors advanced marketing tools and your attendees powerful networking tools – all in one place. Evolero offers meeting planners and congress organizers the most up-to-date conference management, with a social twist!

FXiaoKe

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
FXiaoKe designs a cloud-based sales management platform that provides management tools for Chinese companies. Its platform provides services related to field operation management, distribution chain management and customer relationship management, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to manage their sales through a social interaction platform that combines features of dynamic CRM and enterprise WeChat. FXiaoKe develops enterprise software solutions. It offers online office automation services including sharing information between personal computers and smart phones. It also provides customer management services. Luo Xu founded FXiaoKe in December 2011, with its headquarters in Beijing, China.

Outleads

Seed Round in 2013
Outleads, a Microsoft Ventures accelerator company, enables to advertise online based on offline activity. Their patented technology pushes data from CRMs, contact centers phone and chat, marketing automation, e-mail marketing, and similar software to Google Analytics so advertisers can leverage it in AdWords. For example, advertisers can target leads that expressed interest in a product over a phone call or chat session but didn't buy; leads that were sent an e-mail campaign in HubSpot and opened but didn’t click it; leads with a certain status in Salesforce; etc. Outleads integrates with leading contact center software, including Genesys, Five9, and more.

OFunnel

Seed Round in 2013
For Businesses, OFunnel provides a way to tap into the networks of everyone in the organization--not just the sales team. With OFunnel, your sales team is able to spend more time gaining warm introductions and closing critical deals, and less time making cold calls.

Applango

Seed Round in 2012
Applango is a software company that offers an enterprise management platform designed to help IT managers, CIOs, and SaaS administrators monitor and optimize their organization's software as a service (SaaS) usage. Founded in 2012, the application provides insights into customer relationship management (CRM) usage, enabling organizations to control costs and enhance user adoption. By predicting customer experience and identifying potential issues before they escalate, Applango helps organizations improve service delivery and customer satisfaction. The platform has demonstrated the capability to reduce costs by 25% to 50% in its initial usage phase. Since September 2015, Applango has been available on the Salesforce AppExchange and has been a participant in the Amadeus Explore program since 2018.

MarketingPilot

Acquisition in 2012
MarketingPilot provides Integrated Marketing Management solutions to better understand their customers, manage and streamline marketing operations and create automated and measurable multi-channel marketing campaigns. This acquisition is a very exciting step forward for us, and will accelerate their ability to better meet the needs of CMO's (chief marketing officers) through rich business intelligence, and better enable marketers to successfully plan, execute, monitor, and optimize customer interactions across digital, social and traditional channels, and measure ROI

Socedo

Seed Round in 2012
Socedo, Inc., based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in automated social media lead generation solutions tailored for B2B marketers. Founded in 2011, the company utilizes social intent data from platforms like Twitter to identify potential prospects who demonstrate interest in specific areas. Socedo's system enables clients to connect with these leads based on real-time behaviors, such as interactions with competitors or relevant keywords. In addition to discovering new prospects, Socedo enhances existing lead data by providing demographic and behavioral insights, which can be integrated into marketing automation platforms like Marketo. This capability allows marketers to engage with leads effectively, monitor their social media activities, and identify sales opportunities. Notable clients include brands such as Microsoft and F5.

Yammer

Acquisition in 2012
Yammer is an enterprise social networking platform that facilitates communication, collaboration, and information sharing among employees. Established in 2008 and now part of Microsoft, Yammer empowers users to work together in real time across various departments and locations. The platform allows employees to create project-specific groups, share and edit documents, and exchange ideas through short, frequent updates. Accessible via web, desktop, and mobile devices, it supports a flexible work environment that can adapt to users' needs. Yammer also integrates seamlessly with other systems, such as Microsoft SharePoint, enhancing its functionality across enterprise applications. With over 7 million users, including employees from a significant majority of Fortune 500 companies, Yammer plays a crucial role in improving productivity and engagement within organizations.

Whale Communications

Acquisition in 2006
Whale Communications Ltd. provides business-driven secure access products. It provides secure access products, including secure sockets layer virtual private networks, and Web application firewalls, as well as application security, and endpoint security offerings. Whale's solutions provide remote access, content inspection, and granular access control. It enables businesses to protect corporate applications and data when accessed remotely by mobile workers, partners, and customers. Whale's Intelligent Application Gateway products enable various employees, business partners, and customer users to securely and easily access their critical business applications and resources. The Intelligent Application Gateway Express Edition provides secure remote access through the browser to widely used enterprise applications for a small number of users. It offers organizations out-of-the-box functionality and straightforward integration with existing enterprise directories, authentication schema, and Web Single Sign On. Whale's flagship Intelligent Application Gateway Enterprise Edition, is an application access and security appliance, designed to support an unlimited number of users in various configurations with independent policy sets. It offers professional services and training. The company serves Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, as well as government and public sector organizations. Whale Communications Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey, with additional offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Israel, and representation in France.
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