Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a leading American multinational technology company based in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a diverse range of software products and services. Its offerings include the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office suite, and a variety of enterprise solutions through Microsoft Dynamics, which encompasses customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Additionally, Microsoft provides gaming hardware like Xbox consoles, as well as cloud services via Microsoft Azure. The company also runs several global accelerator programs, such as those in London, Seattle, Beijing, and Paris, aimed at nurturing startups by providing mentorship, technical support, and resources to foster growth and innovation. With a commitment to empowering entrepreneurs, Microsoft for Startups offers free access to its cloud services and facilitates connections with its extensive partner ecosystem. Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, Microsoft has established itself as a pivotal player in the technology sector, serving both consumer and commercial markets worldwide.

Dr. Stevens Bonhomme

Business Strategy and Policy Manager

Erin Burchfield

Global Director, Microsoft Philanthropies - Tech for Social Impact

Alexia Cambon

Senior Director, Research

Shinesa Cambric

Principal Product Manager

Edna Conway

VP, Global Security, Risk and Compliance, Azure

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

Stephan Jacquemot

The Business Developer

Idan Levin

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Brandon Middaugh

Senior Director, Climate Innovation Fund

Arindam Mukherjee

Director - Azure Business, Microsoft India

Patricia Obermaier

Vice President, US Health and Life Sciences

Emily Rich

Director of Startups

Mohammed Saleh

Health Director

Brad Smith

President

Phil Sorgen

Corporate Vice President, US Enterprise and Partner Group

Kushagra Vaid

VP and Distinguished Engineer, Azure Infrastructure at Microsoft

Hank Vigil

Senior Vice President, Strategy and Partnerships

Emilia Zarei

Founder and CEO

Past deals in Crowdsourcing

Jobicy

Convertible Note in 2022
Jobicy is helping companies of all sizes power their business with remote talents.

Treepli

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Treepli is an itinerary marketplace for independent travelers, inspired by the travel sharing economy and dedicated to curious people seeking authentic and personalised experiences. How does it work? We built a digital platform to facilitate the exchange of travel ideas and tips, where the ones looking for inspiration for their next destination can meet the stories of those who have already been there. Treepli is a community of travelers where the most experts become content creators, proposing detailed itineraries, including all info regarding where to sleep, how to move around, what to do and must-see places. All these useful recommendations are shared together with their own storytelling, made of photos, images and emotions experienced along the way. On the other hand, users that are willing to plan a trip, thanks to these genuine and first-hand tips, can organise each stop in a simple and intuitive manner. Just need to pick and choose an itinerary among the ones available in the portal, customise it based on the personal needs, and finally book each single travel product, from the outbound flight to the museum entrance fee, in a single seamless flow. This is a win-win mechanism: who is looking for ideas but is not willing to get the usual pre-packaged tour can actually create his own tailored trip, who shares his stories and hidden gems can value his experience, getting rewarded based on how many users he inspired to hit the road. Our project has already left the dock: are you ready to jump on board and join us?

Talmix

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Talmix has built a market-leading Talent Marketplace with a focus on Business Talent, to deliver this talent on demand to companies worldwide who need expertise and operational talent as part of their extended workforce ecosystem. It offers three main products: • Talmix marketplace for sourcing talent on demand • Talmix talent pools to provide direct sourcing and network management for proactive talent requirements • Talmix ‘bring your own talent’: payrolling and compliance to facilitate use of the extended workforce. The Talmix marketplace is recognised as an Industry Leader because of its unique product capabilities including the Talmix Talent Passport, its global reach and its exceptional user interface. It is built for purpose using Talmix proprietary technology and data built from millions of platform interactions to provide a fast, convenient and precise way for teams to extend bandwidth and expertise and deliver successful project outcomes. The marketplace provides direct access to talent for hiring managers, allowing them to engage with matched talent in 24 hours. It also provides central visibility to HR and procurement teams running extended workforce programmes with talent intelligence, reports and insights on external talent usage, skills, experience and costs. The open API architecture of the Talent Marketplace has been designed specifically to enable integrations with third party systems, including Vendor Management Systems (VMS). It recently launched a new talent pools product to facilitate management of the external workforce, with pre-built and customisable pools from its network immediately available to deploy alongside internal teams. Increasingly companies want to ‘bring their own talent’ into the extended workforce, and Talmix PCO:payrolling and compliance solutions allow this convenient approach, managing more of the process for clients. Talmix was founded in 2016, and now numbers over 1,000 corporate users and 60,000 registered on its talent network.

Crowdaura

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Crowdaura Ltd. develops and operates an online platform that enables banks, brokers, exchanges, and funds to automate legal and regulatory document structuring, marketing, distribution, execution, clearing, settlement and administration, as well as issue and manage financial products.

Furo

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Furo is a platform that for the creation, issuance, management and analysis of RFXs that lets purchasing teams accept and evaluate supplier submissions quickly. You can use Furo to streamline your RFP, RFQ, RFI, bid, tender, and similar purchasing projects.

Talent.io

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
talent.io is Europe's fastest growing recruitment platform for tech profiles. On talent.io, companies don’t have to start a cumbersome headhunting process. Once recruiters sign up, they receive an email every Monday so that they can check out talent.io’s new batch of 100 candidates. It takes minutes and radically reduces friction. 2000 candidates signup every week, and only 10% of them are selected for a recruitment session. Candidates are hand-picked according to 2 criteria : their skills and their availability. talent.io employees will call each engineer individually for around 20 minutes. This way, companies know that they will find competent people on the platform.

synergist.io

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Synergist.io is used by procurement departments, commercial teams, and alternative legal service providers to execute high-volumes of recurring contracts with minimal effort. It provides a centralized and transparent workflow that is optimized for negotiating contract terms -- the most tedious and unpredictable step in the process. Users can manage increasing volumes of contracts required to onboard suppliers or close new business, all with minimal involvement from legal. They’re guided step-by-step through the process and are empowered to negotiate where necessary, within safe boundaries and using terms that have been pre-approved by their legal team.

Tradiio

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Tradiio is a music app for web and mobile which blends streaming with direct-to-fan artist funding. Music fans have the ability to discover the best emerging artists through crowd curation. Artists can then monetize their fan base through inviting them to join their Circle (beta), where they can provide exclusive content and behind the scenes access in exchange for monthly recurring payments.

CityFalcon

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
CityFALCON is redefining how financial news is sourced, curated, distributed, and consumed. We transform unstructured financial content into structured data then deliver analytics, insights, and news in real-time on 250k+ topics from 3000+ sources, including premium non-public content and paywall-free access. We use automation, Big Data and AI techniques, and personalisation to democratise access to the financial markets and their data for everyone, from retail market participants and SMEs to large institutions and corporations. Current channels of delivery are web, mobile app, voice device, and API access, while Single Sign-on, CSV-based historical data sets, and one-time purchase packages are planned for the future.

Wunderlist

Acquisition in 2015
Wunderlist is a cloud-based task management application. 6Wunderkinder is a young and innovative software startup that was founded by six friends in Berlin, Germany, on 30 August 2010. 6Wunderkinder designs and develops a cloud-based, cross platform productivity application called, which was first launched in November 2010. Today, Wunderlist is one of the most popular productivity applications and is used by millions of people around the world.

Beekast

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Beekast is an interactive meeting management software that helps you create, lead, and track your online meetings and training sessions. The platform’s activities are easy to learn and use. Lead effective and collaborative meetings, whether in-person or for remote work. Engage your audience with digital and interactive activities directly inserted into your slides, such as word clouds, surveys, and boards. Whatever your skills, Beekast assists you in all your meetings thanks to a set of advanced yet incredibly simple features. Facilitating collaboration, getting feedback, and interacting with your participants has never been easier. Whether you're running workshops, interactive virtual meetings, or a conference, Beekast provides the perfect tool to make your sessions impactful.

CaptainLeads

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
CaptainLeads is the first B2B community where members - SMBs & professionals - share their purchasing needs. For example, if you need to buy new computers, or legal servies, or a new car for your company, they'll send this information to 3 members of their network, who can provide exactly the kind of service their product you're looking for. In exchange, you'll receive highly qualified leads, because when one of their members needs to buy your service, they'll send him/her to you. The basic rule of their community is very easy : the more you share your own purchasing needs with the community, the more their community is going to send you back hightly qualified leads, in your area of expertise. For example, if you're a professional event planner, you tell us what you need to buy (venue rentals, catering services, transportation services, etc.). In exchange, CaptainLeads is going to put you in contct with customers who need your services (for example, corporations looking for event planners).

Braineet

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Braineet's innovation hub encompasses the whole innovation lifecycle Give the strategic direction with in-depth market insights. Ideate at scale with your employees, customers and partners. Empower teams to use these ideas to improve processes and make better products. Pilot it all in Braineet while fostering a real innovation culture for long-term change.

Rallyteam

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Rallyteam is an internal mobility platform that enables companies to better understand and utilize their most valuable assets - their people. Rallyteam helps organizations develop, engage, and retain top talent by offering unlimited growth and experiential learning opportunities, fostering collaboration and continuous feedback, and rewarding top performers with new opportunities and recognition.

CityFalcon

Seed Round in 2015
CityFALCON is redefining how financial news is sourced, curated, distributed, and consumed. We transform unstructured financial content into structured data then deliver analytics, insights, and news in real-time on 250k+ topics from 3000+ sources, including premium non-public content and paywall-free access. We use automation, Big Data and AI techniques, and personalisation to democratise access to the financial markets and their data for everyone, from retail market participants and SMEs to large institutions and corporations. Current channels of delivery are web, mobile app, voice device, and API access, while Single Sign-on, CSV-based historical data sets, and one-time purchase packages are planned for the future.

Kimonex

Venture Round in 2015
Kimonex - Redefining Industrial Sourcing Aim: Replacing manual industrial sourcing with an advanced intelligent algorithm that matches the right supplier for any part. The Problem: Industrial sourcing is a manual process. The professional communication between product creators and industrial suppliers is done manually for every single material and part, using spreadsheet and email. This ineffective process causes up to 30% inefficiency in product cost and time-to-market. The Solution: Kimonex cloud-based advanced intelligent algorithm connects product creators with industrial suppliers based on product data. Kimonex helps product development and manufacturing companies make more cost- effective products, in faster time-to-market, while helping industrial suppliers get high- quality leads at earlier stage. The Product: An intelligent cloud-based software for product data management with advanced algorithm to match industrial buyers and sellers. Timing: The modern agile manufacturing technologies require modern & agile product management software. Competition: Kimonex's competitors are manual tools on one end (spreadsheet & email) and PLM tools on the other end. Market Size: $700,000,000,000/year of products, materials, and parts are sourced manually using spreadsheets and email. *Based on IBIS World Business Model: Stage 1. Purchasing: Freemium. Stage 2. Suppliers: Subscription $7,000-10,000/yr. Stage 3. Distribution: 2-3% of deals.

Meetberry

Grant in 2015
Meetberry is an AirBnb-like sharing platform for meeting& event space. Customers can book cool venues for a fixed rate, or participate in an auction style listing, to ensure the beste deal! Venues receive more bookings, enjoy higher occupancy levels and an increase of revenue.

UBQT

Venture Round in 2015
UBQT is an online platform that enables its users to obtain access to a range of events. UBQT was launched in 2014 by Florian Mascaro and Moktar Larbi and is based in Paris.

Teambition

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Teambition is a leading collaboration platform in China, which takes the experience of team collaboration to a higher level by making sharing and communications upon tasks, files, posts and meetings easier and more efficient. Teambition comes with a web application, desktop applications and mobile apps to facilitate your collaboration with your team anywhere and anytime. Its iPhone app has been named as one of the best apps of 2015 by Apple Store. Teambition now has over 3,000,000 users, including leading companies from various industries. Teambition has raised several rounds of funds from Gobi, IDG, Pangu and North Light venture capital. It has also got strategic funds from Tencent on 2016.In 2014, Teambition was selected as the top 50 investment value enterprises in China.

Qingguo

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Qingguo

Spothers

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Spothers is a classified ads platform, next generation. Using social interactions and geolocalization, Spothers focuses on the human aspect of transactions. Instead of placing a simple ad and be contacted by a total stranger, people can share anecdotes about what they sell and selfies of previous transactions. By providing a friendly platform, Spothers contrasts with the tradition of anonymous services such as craigslist or leboncoin.

Contest & co

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Awesome web platforms, for awesome firms employees. Federate them by involving them in a nice internal photo or video contest.

Firstbird

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Firstbird, the digital employee referral program, connects people with jobs and companies worldwide with suitable candidates. With Firstbird, employees become brand ambassadors, and referrals become a company’s most successful recruiting channel. Firstbird integrates easily with your ATS to make your life easier.

SegmentFault

Venture Round in 2014
SegmentFault is a leading developer community in China, has more than 6M developer users! Sunny hopes to build a new era of developers, build by developers, for developers.SegmentFault team also introduced hackathon into China, which gained a lot of recognition. SegmentFault Team is now the largest hackathon organizer in China. SegmentFault is based on the self-developed open-source framework called Typecho Framework, which is an easy, lightweight, and extensible PHP framework. The front-end of SegmentFault adopts responsive design, using technologies including Sass, Compass, jQuery, and more. The whole project is collaborated through GitHub, BaseCamp, and Gmail.

Wooju

Venture Round in 2014
Wooju is the app that lets you snap & solve life's choices. Simply snap a picture, ask a yes/no question and send to friends. They vote, and you receive an easy-to-use poll that helps you decide what to do. And hey, if you're not satisfied with your friends' opinions, you can always ask a random selection of our user base by opting to go public.

Askem

Venture Round in 2014
Askem makes online market research simple. Using Facebook advertising, we get responses from target audiences that were previously impossible to reach. We can find respondents based on their interests and behaviors, job description, marital status, household income and more! How are we different: 1. We don't incentivize people to take surveys. 2. We reach hyper-targeted audiences fast and cost effectively. 3. We enable turnaround from survey creation to results is a few days! Whether you are a startup or a Fortune 500 company, we urge you to question everything. Now you can get the responses you need both quickly and cost effectively with Askem!

Tradiio

Venture Round in 2014
Tradiio is a music app for web and mobile which blends streaming with direct-to-fan artist funding. Music fans have the ability to discover the best emerging artists through crowd curation. Artists can then monetize their fan base through inviting them to join their Circle (beta), where they can provide exclusive content and behind the scenes access in exchange for monthly recurring payments.

Myriada Systems

Venture Round in 2014
Myriada enables groups of experts to forecast any price, rate or indicator with extraordinary accuracy. The patent-pending technology suite is applicable to any long-short investment strategy where positions are generally held for more than an hour. Myriada achieves this versatility by harnessing an existing resource - the predictive ability of the analysts/traders within a hedge fund, trading house or prop desk. This approach improves the team’s existing, individual-centric forecasting techniques by incorporating collective intelligence. On the Myriada platform, a fund’s employees and members of their network are transformed into prediction engines - and these human predictions can also be combined with the output of computational models. By rapidly collating all estimations via weighted aggregation, Myriada generates rich, visually intelligible collective forecasts. For each, the group signal is statistically guaranteed to be more accurate than the average individual prediction, and is usually better than any individual. The power of correctly harnessed collective intelligence was empirically demonstrated with a 90-day macro multi-security trading strategy which yielded a Sharpe score of 3.66. Myriada is launching with the Financial Times on December 1st 2014.

foule factory

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Foule factory is a crowdsourcing platform. We solve problems ranging from product categorization to business lead verification to content creation. Clients from startups to the Fortune 500 enjoy increased flexibility, faster turnaround time and cost savings. Foule factory offers the ability to distribute tasks to a massive group of contributors with automated management and quality control in order to streamline many large-scale business projects. This is the simplest and most flexible way for businesses of all sizes to scale workforces and accurately complete human evaluation of business information.

Spothers

Venture Round in 2014
Spothers is a classified ads platform, next generation. Using social interactions and geolocalization, Spothers focuses on the human aspect of transactions. Instead of placing a simple ad and be contacted by a total stranger, people can share anecdotes about what they sell and selfies of previous transactions. By providing a friendly platform, Spothers contrasts with the tradition of anonymous services such as craigslist or leboncoin.

Conuxio

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
an intelligent checklist solution that allows you to share tips with your friends and share your experiences.

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.

Askem

Seed Round in 2014
Askem makes online market research simple. Using Facebook advertising, we get responses from target audiences that were previously impossible to reach. We can find respondents based on their interests and behaviors, job description, marital status, household income and more! How are we different: 1. We don't incentivize people to take surveys. 2. We reach hyper-targeted audiences fast and cost effectively. 3. We enable turnaround from survey creation to results is a few days! Whether you are a startup or a Fortune 500 company, we urge you to question everything. Now you can get the responses you need both quickly and cost effectively with Askem!

Vidit

Venture Round in 2014
Vidit recreates events, allowing people to relive them. Using a unique video synchronization algorithm, Vidit collects videos taken by many people in a single event, synchronizes and edits them into one video that depicts the event from its beginning to its end, from many angles.

Shoot4ME

Venture Round in 2014
Shoot4ME est une plateforme sociale permettant la mise en relation de personnes qui ont besoin de contenus visuels (photos et vidéos) avec toutes celles qui peuvent en fournir.

Rallyteam

Venture Round in 2014
Rallyteam is an internal mobility platform that enables companies to better understand and utilize their most valuable assets - their people. Rallyteam helps organizations develop, engage, and retain top talent by offering unlimited growth and experiential learning opportunities, fostering collaboration and continuous feedback, and rewarding top performers with new opportunities and recognition.

xiaolaoyiguan.com

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Recruitment SAAS for labor intensive industries to build a high-quality workforce.

WorkInConfidence

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
WorkInConfidence has a senior management team with over 6 decades of combined experience in senior management roles, as well as extensive experience in software development. They are committed to delivering solutions which help organisations and their employees and stakeholders engage and understand each other better.

foule factory

Venture Round in 2013
Foule factory is a crowdsourcing platform. We solve problems ranging from product categorization to business lead verification to content creation. Clients from startups to the Fortune 500 enjoy increased flexibility, faster turnaround time and cost savings. Foule factory offers the ability to distribute tasks to a massive group of contributors with automated management and quality control in order to streamline many large-scale business projects. This is the simplest and most flexible way for businesses of all sizes to scale workforces and accurately complete human evaluation of business information.

Darudar

Grant in 2013
Darudar is an international service for giving your things and skills to other people for free. The service is based on principles of self-organization. The mission of DaruDar is to spread globally the social practice of gift-giving, to make it a daily and routine act.

Niting

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
Niting provides users with scenario-aware mobile music sharing and recommendation services.

Kickhub

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
A free software for crowdfunding and donations. Wants to incerase transparency and decrease costs in crowdfunding and online donations.

Shoot4ME

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
Shoot4ME est une plateforme sociale permettant la mise en relation de personnes qui ont besoin de contenus visuels (photos et vidéos) avec toutes celles qui peuvent en fournir.

UBQT

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
UBQT is an online platform that enables its users to obtain access to a range of events. UBQT was launched in 2014 by Florian Mascaro and Moktar Larbi and is based in Paris.

Navin

Venture Round in 2013
Navin, the geolocation platform to monetize indoor spaces Navin is a revolutionary self-deploying indoor GPS operating on any mobile device. Navin utilizes the “wisdom of the crowd” to navigate indoor venues: malls, airports, museums, etc.

Teambition

Venture Round in 2013
Teambition is a leading collaboration platform in China, which takes the experience of team collaboration to a higher level by making sharing and communications upon tasks, files, posts and meetings easier and more efficient. Teambition comes with a web application, desktop applications and mobile apps to facilitate your collaboration with your team anywhere and anytime. Its iPhone app has been named as one of the best apps of 2015 by Apple Store. Teambition now has over 3,000,000 users, including leading companies from various industries. Teambition has raised several rounds of funds from Gobi, IDG, Pangu and North Light venture capital. It has also got strategic funds from Tencent on 2016.In 2014, Teambition was selected as the top 50 investment value enterprises in China.

Frilp

Venture Round in 2013
Frilp (Friend's Help) is powered by your friends and an advanced algorithm that recommends the shops and services that is best suited for you. The goal of frilp is to greatly reduce the time and effort it takes for you to discover that one trusted business which you can use, at a time when you need it badly.

Vjianke

Non Equity Assistance in 2012
Vjianke is a website that allows sports fans to search, gather, and arrange live link navigation resources for football, basketball, and e-sports. They organize the current football teams, basketball teams, e-sports teams, and sportspeople in their team column for users to watch live.

Qingguo

Venture Round in 2012
Qingguo

Yammer

Acquisition in 2012
Yammer is an enterprise social network established to foster team collaboration, empower employees, and drive business transformation. It enables employees to collaborate in real time across departments, geographies, and business applications. It also helps them create groups to collaborate on projects and share and edit documents. The service of yammer.com can be accessed through the web, desktop and mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android, and Blackberry, enabling a “virtual office” that employees can plug into while on-the-go. Additionally, Yammer can be easily integrated with other systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, creating a social layer across all enterprise applications. Yammer has secured more than 7 million users, including employees from 85 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2008, Yammer is now a part of Microsoft.

Flatpebble

Venture Round in 2012
Flatpebble.com is the Best Place in the world to hire a wedding photographer. Customers place requests through a simple form and receive detailed templatized quotes along with photographer portfolios allowing them to make decisions from their living room. Its also a great way for photographers to reach out to customers. The whole approach is disruptive in a market like India where vendors are charged leads for clicks on their phone numbers, with no verification of the quality of the lead. On Flatpebble, photographers view detailed requirements, budgets and verified customer info before deciding to quote on a lead. Their closure rates are very good and getting impressive !! It also helps that Wedding photography is in their TAM a 450-500 mn $ market, completely disorganized and crying out for high quality organisation. Flatpebble is getting great customer and photographer feedback. They have grown to over 500 + portfolios across 80+ Indian cities and 5+ countries as on date.

iSyndicate

Venture Round in 2000
iSyndicate is the preeminent content syndication service on the Internet, distributing a broad selection of written, graphical, audio and video content from 998 sources, to a vast and diverse network of 257,791 Web sites.
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