Microsoft
VC Fund
Redmond, United States
Microsoft is a VC fund in Redmond focused on Software and Information Technology. Microsoft manufactures personal computers and accessories under the Surface line, alongside engineering the Windows operating system family for computing devices. Its product architecture incorporates the Microsoft 365 cloud productivity suite, which packages digital tools for database administration, internal communications, and electronic mailing. For corporate infrastructure, the organization supplies cloud computing capabilities via Microsoft Azure, enterprise optimization software through Dynamics 365, and cybersecurity automation applications. The firm also oversees the Xbox video gaming brand, managing subscription services, hardware consoles, and digital entertainment storefronts.
- Total investments:
- 306
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
- Fund size:
- $1B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Microsoft invests in
Stages Microsoft invests in
Countries Microsoft invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 108 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $5k–$4M
- Grant
- $25k–$2.5M
- Non-Equity Assistance
- $5k–$18M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 82 (27%)
- Information Technology 60 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 54 (18%)
- Machine Learning 31 (10%)
- SaaS 24 (8%)
Stage
- Grant 68 (22%)
- Non-equity Assistance 39 (13%)
- Seed 26 (8%)
- Series A 18 (6%)
- Funding Round 18 (6%)
Country
- United States 105 (34%)
- United Kingdom 42 (14%)
- Canada 15 (5%)
- India 14 (5%)
- Singapore 6 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Robart
Energy Industry Strategy Leader
|
Energy Industry Strategy Leader | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Aparna Chennapragada
Corporate VP
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Corporate VP | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Bay Gross
Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI
|
Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Bobby George
Creative Strategist
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Creative Strategist | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| CSO | Total investments: 7 | Find email | ||
| See all 108 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| NotchPixel brings a dynamic island to Windows. It sits at the top of the screen as a small black pill and grows when something happens: the song that's playing, a volume or brightness change, a call timer with a one-click mic mute, a download finishing, or a notification you can open with a click. Open it and you get a set of panels you choose yourself. There's a widgets board with the date, calendar, timer, weather and system stats, a clipboard history, a file shelf that can send files to your phone over Wi-Fi, a screen recorder that captures your voice too, and a small browser drawer that stays on top of games without pulling you out of them. Streamers can show their Twitch or YouTube chat in an overlay. Everything runs on your own PC. There's no account, no ads and no tracking, and recordings and clipboard text never leave the machine. It also has full accessibility settings: larger text, higher contrast and reduced motion. NotchPixel launched on the Microsoft Store in September 2026 and is built by an independent developer. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2026 | ||
| Micro1 offers a platform that converts human expertise into structured datasets and recruitment processes for companies using AI. It provides a Data Engine that handles the recruitment of experts and manages human-in-the-loop operations to generate data used in post-training of AI models. It also provides Zara, an AI recruiter agent, whichdiscovers, vets, and qualifies talent globally for enterprises and large-volume recruitment firms. The company maintains a Research Lab that publishes studies related to evaluating AI-assisted recruitment, speech-to-text systems, proctoring models, and other aspects of human-data integration into AI systems. It delivers APIs to access its human-data services and recruiter tools. | $100M / Series B / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Korea Housing Information is a housing cost management platform intended to enhance the residential experience, create innovative financial ventures, and contribute to energy conservation. The company's platform harnesses the power of data and cutting-edge technology within buildings to transform the residential experience, enabling users todrive carbon reduction efforts in buildings. | $148.7K / Grant / Sep 07, 2026 | ||
| SemSwitch is an AI infrastructure company that builds intelligent software for companies and teams to power their workflow management. Our primary product is soundOS, an application that blends multiple cloud streams and governed agentic layers with real-time TTS/STT communication in a novel way. soundOS bypasses traditional text terminals andis powered directly by our proprietary Terminal 2.0 Protocol (T2P) - a binary-native communication layer that utilizes typed CBOR frames and broker trees, allowing participants to execute coordinated tasks within their organizations in real-time, on a global scale, without ever losing state.SemSwitch is backed by infrastructure grants from both the AWS Activate program and Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, as well as Algolia, utilizing over $20,000 in non-equity assistance to scale the multi-cloud architecture powering the launch of our platforms. | $5K / Non-equity Assistance / Apr 20, 2026 | ||
| The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes, protects, and standardizes open source software by hosting important workgroups, events, and online resources. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation provides unparalleled support for open source communities through financial and intellectual resources, infrastructure, services,events, and training. Working together, The Linux Foundation and its projects form the most ambitious and successful investment in the creation of shared technology. For years the Linux Foundation has provided a neutral home and unmatched support for cutting-edge projects — fostering burgeoning communities that breed collaboration, power innovation, and attract the best engineering talent in the world. | $12.5M / Grant / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| Alpha-Omega protects society by funding and catalyzing sustainable security across open source software. | Grant / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| The non-profit software foundation working to solve security problems in the open source supply chain. | Grant / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| Deploy web apps, APIs, Python services, and static sites from one clear workflow. Connect a repo, ship predictable releases, and keep each rollout visible as it happens. | $10K / Non-equity Assistance / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| DataDock.ai is an AI-powered data intelligence company that transforms how organizations discover, extract, and act on open data. Our platform combines advanced Natural Language Processing, machine learning, and proprietary data pipelines to deliver real-time insights across financial markets, compliance, asset management, and go-to-marketstrategy. With 3M+ data records, 200+ data sources, and over 1B records updated monthly, DataDock gives enterprises, investors, law firms, and government agencies the intelligence edge they need to move faster and with greater confidence. Founded on the belief that public data should be accessible, structured, and useful, DataDock serves clients across industries including financial services, venture capital, commercial real estate, legal, and government. Our products span Go-To-Market Intelligence, Sanctions & Compliance Monitoring, Private Markets Insights, Asset Management Intelligence, and Legal Research — each purpose-built for the workflows that matter most. | $150K / Grant / Mar 07, 2026 | ||
| OpenAI builds generative language models, multimodal systems, and image creation software accessible via web interfaces and application programming interfaces. Its platforms enable text generation, conversational interactions, software code creation, and automated data analysis across various professional and creative tasks. Additionally, the entity conducts research into artificial intelligence safety and operates software infrastructure designed to host and scale digital tools. | $122B / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 27, 2026 | ||
| See all 306 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Microsoft invest in?
Microsoft invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Grant and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 306 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Microsoft invest in?
Microsoft typically joins rounds of $5k–$4M at Seed, $25k–$2.5M at Grant and $5k–$18M at Non-Equity Assistance. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Microsoft's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Microsoft took part in.
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Who are the partners at Microsoft?
The team at Microsoft includes Alex Robart (Energy Industry Strategy Leader), Aparna Chennapragada (Corporate VP) and Bay Gross (Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI), among 108 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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