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Microsoft
Enterprise software, cloud solutions, and personal computing
At a glance
- Founded
- 1975
- Headquarters
- Redmond, United States
- Listing
- IPO 1986
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Magnificent 7Power Law dataset 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Microsoft.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
- TITechnology Venture Investors
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Microsoft employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
DUDuolingoEst. 2011
Severin HackerUnited States
ABAbridgeEst. 2018
Zachary LiptonUnited States
BLBlockstreamEst. 2014
Adam BackUnited States
INInstagramEst. 2010
Mike KriegerUnited States
OPOpenAIEst. 2015
Pamela VagataUnited StatesGlobal footprint
across markets
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Microsoft was the backer or acquirer, 1987–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
728 deals across Microsoft's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Microsoft's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Microsoft on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
See Microsoft on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.