Microsoft

Microsoft is a multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells software products and services. Its offerings include the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office suite, server products like Windows Server and SQL Server, business solutions such as Dynamics, cloud services through Azure, hardware devices like Surface and Xbox, and online advertising platforms.

Lillian Barnard

CEO and Board Member

Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel

Partner Security Architect

Alexia Cambon

Senior Director, Research

Shinesa Cambric

Principal Product Manager

Puneet Chandok

Corporate Vice President of Microsoft India and South Asia

Roberto Croci

Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups MEA

David Dennis

Principal Program and Product Manager

Scott Guthrie

Executive Vice President, Cloud + AI Group

Philip Meyer

Partner Technology Strategist - Hosting and Cloud

Brandon Middaugh

Investor

Satya Nadella

CEO

Takeshi Numoto

EVP and CMO

Mohammed Saleh

Health Director

Brian Schultz

Director, Corporate Development

Emilia Zarei

Founder and CEO

Past deals in Messaging

CommSwift

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
CommSwift is an ommi channel messaging platform that helps SME to communicate better, automate processes and reduce cost. CommSwift Enterprise helps Banks and Insurance companies to comply regulatory laws through active monitoring and backup of whatsapp communication.

Hello Lamp Post

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Hello Lamp Post is a digital platform that facilitates conversations between users and everyday street objects via mobile phones. It aims to enhance community engagement through interactive storytelling, consumer research, and sharing practical information.

Chalkup

Acquisition in 2018
Chalkup, LLC is a learning management and collaboration software company focused on the education sector. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Chalkup offers a platform that enhances classroom connectivity and organization. The software simplifies the assignment of homework, peer study sessions, grading, and resource sharing among students and teachers. Users can utilize tools for messaging, create customized to-do lists, engage in class-wide discussions, and manage deadlines and events through shared course calendars. The platform fosters a collaborative and engaging learning environment by keeping students, teachers, parents, and administrators synchronized in their educational activities. As of February 2018, Chalkup operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Genee

Acquisition in 2016
Genee is a powerful virtual scheduling assistant based on artificial intelligence. Genee can coordinate the best times to meet between people and track responses. Genee is also a powerful reminder service that works as a Facebook Messenger bot, communicating and reminding you over Facebook Messenger.

Dendrite.me

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Dendrite.me is a social learning platform that provides exercises related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It also enables its users to chat, comment, search, and find related content. Dendrite.me was launched in 2014.

Raklet

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Raklet is a cloud-based platform designed to help associations build, manage, monetize, and grow their communities. It offers tools such as digital membership cards, customer relationship management, engagement tools, renewal reminders, directories, and website builders to simplify membership administration and enhance member interaction.

Weixin Host

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Weixin Host is a technology-driven company specializing in application software development, particularly for social messaging platforms. Focused on enhancing marketing automation and social data management, Weixin Host aims to bridge the gap between technology and marketing to improve operational efficiency for its clients. Originally founded as Huster Network Technology, the company has leveraged its extensive experience from working with Sina Weibo to create effective microblogging solutions. In the WeChat era, it developed a comprehensive data management platform that serves as an official technology partner for WeChat, supporting over 100,000 public accounts in their operations. The platform facilitates customer relationship management by analyzing fan behaviors and preferences, enabling businesses to utilize precise data for more effective marketing strategies. Weixin Host's offerings are recognized as some of the most advanced in the industry.

Rong Cloud

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Rong Cloud, operating under Beijing Network Technology Co., Ltd., is a pioneering provider of instant messaging cloud services tailored for Internet and mobile app developers. The company offers a comprehensive cloud-based communication platform that enables developers to seamlessly integrate instant messaging, real-time networking, and various communication capabilities into their applications without the need for extensive server infrastructure. With a core team that possesses nearly a decade of expertise in instant messaging technology and operations, Rong Cloud focuses on enhancing inter-organizational communication through its services. The platform supports functionalities such as in-app social networking, live streaming, enterprise instant messaging, and file sharing, all designed to improve communication efficiency for businesses of diverse sizes.

Citious

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Citious offers an instant messaging application for an improved customer service of companies. With the app, when a client wants to contact the company for a problem or doubt, they should only open the company's application on their mobile phone and write a message to them. On the other side of the application, the people in charge of serving customers will receive their message in order to manage it and offer them the best possible response. The company aims to end the annoyances that customers have when they contact companies that cause all the effort they invest in their customer service to not get the results they expect.

Talko

Acquisition in 2015
Talko is a company focused on developing software and services for mobile communication and social productivity. It specializes in creating applications that enhance communication and facilitate social interactions, leveraging the capabilities of cloud-connected mobile devices. Currently, Talko is in the pre-release stage of its product development, working to introduce innovative usage scenarios that align with modern communication needs.

LeanCloud

Venture Round in 2015
LeanCloud is a China-based company that specializes in providing backend cloud services for mobile application developers. It offers a range of tools and platforms, functioning as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider. The company's services include data storage, real-time messaging, message push, and statistical analysis, all designed to enhance the development process for applications. By equipping developers with these essential services, LeanCloud aims to streamline the application development lifecycle and support businesses in China.

SafeMobile

Venture Round in 2015
SafeMobile is a company that focuses on providing a security platform aimed at ensuring safe mobile device usage while preserving users' day-to-day activities. The platform includes features designed for child protection, which restricts access to unauthorized content and enhances the overall safety of mobile devices. By prioritizing usability alongside security, SafeMobile enables users to confidently navigate digital environments, ensuring that their mobile experience remains both secure and seamless. The company demonstrates a commitment to protecting its users from potential threats, making mobile safety easily accessible for families and individuals alike.

Echo Locker

Acquisition in 2015
Echo Lockscreen is a lock screen that allows you to conveniently and easily view and manage all of the notifications on your Android device.

Zhichi Technologies

Venture Round in 2015
Zhichi Technologies is a prominent intelligent customer experience provider in Southeast Asia, established in 2014. The company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, including AI chatbots, live chat, call center services, and ticketing systems, catering to over 5,000 brands and enterprises. Zhichi Technologies leverages natural language processing and artificial intelligence to enhance customer service applications, enabling clients to seamlessly integrate robotic functions with traditional service channels. The company is dedicated to delivering a stable, efficient, and secure platform that facilitates effective communication between enterprises and their end customers across various channels, including online chat, social media, and voice calls. Additionally, Zhichi Technologies is recognized as a Meta authorized business service provider, assisting enterprises in managing business accounts and executing marketing campaigns.

Email Copilot

Debt Financing in 2015
Email Copilot is a developer of an automated delivery platform focused on enhancing email messaging for marketers. The company offers a solution that seamlessly integrates with existing marketing automation tools and performs behavior analysis to optimize message delivery. By analyzing user preferences, Email Copilot ensures that emails are sent at times when individual users are most likely to engage, delivering content that resonates with them. This automated approach requires minimal setup and has demonstrated significant improvements in engagement metrics, including increases in open and click rates ranging from 5% to 20%.

GeoSafe

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Founded in 2008, GeoSafe specializes in GPS tracking and CAD integration services for police, fire, and EMS departments. Its platform offers real-time intel, collaboration tools, secure database queries, and compliance services, designed to enhance emergency response efficiency.

HeyyThere

Venture Round in 2015
HeyyThere is a location-based messaging application that enables users to leave messages in specific physical locations for their friends and family. The app utilizes technology to ensure that recipients receive these messages when they are nearby, facilitating timely and relevant communication. By focusing on personal connections, HeyyThere enhances the way individuals interact and share information based on their geographical presence, allowing for a unique blend of social networking and location awareness.

UBQT

Venture Round in 2015
UBQT is an online platform launched in 2014 by Florian Mascaro and Moktar Larbi, based in Paris. The company focuses on simplifying event management by providing software that allows users to access and engage with a variety of events. Its platform integrates diverse content, including tweets, photos, videos, and articles, enabling users to follow events seamlessly on both computer and mobile devices. By offering this comprehensive approach, UBQT enhances the experience of participating in events and facilitates connections among attendees.

Vizir

Venture Round in 2015
Founded in France in 2015, Vizir specializes in developing conversational interfaces. They collaborate with major corporations to create advanced chatbot programs and have developed a SaaS product since 2016 for clients to build or manage their own robots.

LeanCloud

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
LeanCloud is a China-based company that specializes in providing backend cloud services for mobile application developers. It offers a range of tools and platforms, functioning as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider. The company's services include data storage, real-time messaging, message push, and statistical analysis, all designed to enhance the development process for applications. By equipping developers with these essential services, LeanCloud aims to streamline the application development lifecycle and support businesses in China.

NowFloats

Series A in 2015
NowFloats is a company that empowers Small and Medium Businesses (SMEs) to establish an online presence using SMS technology. The platform allows businesses to create and update websites by sending text messages, ensuring high discoverability through intelligent Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This approach addresses the significant gap between the number of SMEs in India and those with registered websites, leveraging the widespread use of mobile phones and SMS. NowFloats also provides tools for analyzing website traffic and generating organic content to attract more customers. Founded by former Microsoft and Saatchi & Saatchi professionals, the company has quickly gained traction, serving nearly 2000 customers within five months of its product launch.

Bontact

Seed Round in 2015
Bontact is a New York-based company that operates a multi-channel communication platform designed to facilitate real-time interactions between businesses and their website visitors. The platform encompasses live chat, callback, SMS, and email functionalities, all accessible through a single interface. By enabling direct engagement, Bontact enhances sales and customer support services, fostering a more personalized experience for users. The intuitive and user-friendly interface allows businesses to manage communications effectively, generate advanced reports, and record conversations between sales teams and visitors. This proactive approach to customer interaction promotes a positive shopping atmosphere and improves overall customer service, ultimately helping clients increase sales and better address customer needs.

GeoSafe

Venture Round in 2014
Founded in 2008, GeoSafe specializes in GPS tracking and CAD integration services for police, fire, and EMS departments. Its platform offers real-time intel, collaboration tools, secure database queries, and compliance services, designed to enhance emergency response efficiency.

Capptain

Acquisition in 2014
Capptain is a developer of a response marketing tool aimed at enhancing user engagement and retention for mobile and web applications. The company provides a platform that analyzes user behavior in real time, allowing marketers and customer relationship managers to segment users based on their interactions with the app. By utilizing targeted push notifications tailored to user behavior, Capptain enables clients to foster continuous customer interaction and ultimately improve their return on investment for mobile and web applications. Through its innovative approach, Capptain helps businesses better understand their users and refine their marketing strategies.

Roojoom

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Roojoom provides an omni-channel customer engagement and journey orchestration platform for brands. The platform uses customer experience data and artificial intelligence to determine the optimal channel, timing, and messaging for each interaction, enabling tailored journeys that support onboarding, activation, retention, self-service, and loyalty. It also supports organizing, sharing, and discovering web content for use in presentations, email marketing, sales, and training, helping teams deliver contextual experiences across the customer lifecycle.

Pinio

Seed Round in 2014
Pinio lets us share what we think and how we feel in a richer, more personal way. Share your thoughts with the world, engage in small communities or spark public talks.

HeyyThere

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
HeyyThere is a location-based messaging application that enables users to leave messages in specific physical locations for their friends and family. The app utilizes technology to ensure that recipients receive these messages when they are nearby, facilitating timely and relevant communication. By focusing on personal connections, HeyyThere enhances the way individuals interact and share information based on their geographical presence, allowing for a unique blend of social networking and location awareness.

UBQT

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
UBQT is an online platform launched in 2014 by Florian Mascaro and Moktar Larbi, based in Paris. The company focuses on simplifying event management by providing software that allows users to access and engage with a variety of events. Its platform integrates diverse content, including tweets, photos, videos, and articles, enabling users to follow events seamlessly on both computer and mobile devices. By offering this comprehensive approach, UBQT enhances the experience of participating in events and facilitates connections among attendees.

Feiyan

Non Equity Assistance in 2012
allows users to send coupons for a custom meal via text message, and to send virtual gifts and attend celebrations in spirit.

Email Copilot

Seed Round in 2012
Email Copilot is a developer of an automated delivery platform focused on enhancing email messaging for marketers. The company offers a solution that seamlessly integrates with existing marketing automation tools and performs behavior analysis to optimize message delivery. By analyzing user preferences, Email Copilot ensures that emails are sent at times when individual users are most likely to engage, delivering content that resonates with them. This automated approach requires minimal setup and has demonstrated significant improvements in engagement metrics, including increases in open and click rates ranging from 5% to 20%.

Skype

Acquisition in 2011
Skype is a messaging and VOIP service that enables voice and video calls, chats, and file transfers over the internet. It supports group video conversations and cross-device use on phones, computers, and other screens. The service includes features such as voicemail and call-forwarding, end-to-end encryption for calls and chats, and flexible options for personal or business use. Skype is a product of Microsoft, developed since its launch in 2003, and is associated with connecting people, colleagues, and customers across different locations, facilitating collaboration and communication globally. It is headquartered in Luxembourg.

WhatsApp

Series A in 2011
WhatsApp is a cross-platform mobile messaging app that enables users to exchange messages without paying for SMS. The service supports group chats and the sending of unlimited images, videos, and audio messages, using subscribers’ existing internet data plans. Available on major mobile platforms, WhatsApp focuses on simple, reliable communication for personal and small-group conversations worldwide.

Danger

Acquisition in 2008
Danger was a technology company that specialized in providing software platforms and hardware for mobile communication, most notably powering the T-Mobile Sidekick phone. The Sidekick, known for its youth-oriented design and messaging capabilities, facilitated significant user engagement, handling thousands of messages and pageviews monthly. In 2008, Danger was acquired by Microsoft, which led to significant developments in its service offerings. However, the company faced challenges, including a major data loss incident in 2009 when a server failure resulted in the loss of user data not stored locally. By 2011, T-Mobile and Microsoft discontinued the cloud data service for Danger-powered devices, marking the end of an era for the Sidekick. Despite these challenges, Danger was recognized for its role in enabling mobile operators to deliver integrated internet services and facilitate social interactions among users.

Parlano

Acquisition in 2007
Parlano, acquired by Microsoft in 2007, specializes in enterprise-level team collaboration and messaging products, particularly its MindAlign platform. MindAlign combines the features of email and instant messaging to facilitate persistent group chats around critical business topics, enhancing communication and reducing information silos. The platform offers intelligent instant messaging and presence management solutions, allowing secure connections among employees, customers, and partners. Serving various industries, including technology, financial services, energy, and defense, Parlano also provides business planning and technical implementation services. Its focus on delivering context-rich communication enhances organizational efficiency and supports effective execution of business processes.

Colloquis

Acquisition in 2006
Colloquis created conversation-based interactive customer service agents, distributed via instant messaging platforms. Creator of first bot on AOL Instant Messenger, SmarterChild.

5th Finger

Acquisition in 2005
5th Finger, a subsidiary of Merkle, specializes in mobile solutions for retailers and healthcare providers in the U.S. They offer services such as SMS and mobile marketing campaigns, geofencing, and mobile couponing to enhance customer experiences for prominent clients like Safeway, Jos A Bank, Victoria's Secret, and Joann Fabric & Craft.

Frontbridge Technologies

Acquisition in 2005
Frontbridge technologies provided electronic messaging with security services for email and IM archiving, spam filtering, virus scanning, encrypted email, policy enforcement and disaster recovery.

MessageCast

Acquisition in 2005
MessageCast, acquired by Microsoft in 2005, is a pioneer in creating broadcast messaging systems using real-time networks and RSS content feeds. MessageCast's technology notifies customers about information services, blog and podcast updates, product information, and updates.

Windows Live Hotmail

Acquisition in 1997
Windows Live Hotmail offers Web-based email services. Its services include Hotmail, MSN, Messenger, SkyDrive password-protected online storage, and Windows live, as well as provision for photos and slideshows, and calendar and events. The company was formerly known as MSN Hotmail. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
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