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Other B2B Software · Redmond, United States · Founded 1975 · IPO 1986
Investors
1 investor on Microsoft's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history.
Microsoft mafia
Startups founded by Microsoft alumni
Former Microsoft employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Severin HackerUnited States
Zachary LiptonUnited States
Adam BackUnited States
Mike KriegerUnited States
Pamela VagataUnited States
Nathan BlecharczykUnited States
Minna SongUnited States
Robert NishiharaUnited States
Matteo FranceschettiUnited States
Hamutal MeridorIsrael
Prasanna SankarUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Microsoft has talent and traffic
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Microsoft's talent
Dealroom maps Microsoft's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Capital deployed
Microsoft's 728 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Microsoft appeared as a 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about Microsoft
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Microsoft on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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
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