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.

Erin Burchfield

Global Director, Microsoft Philanthropies - Tech for Social Impact

Alexia Cambon

Senior Director, Research

Shinesa Cambric

Principal Product Manager

Puneet Chandok

Corporate Vice President of Microsoft India and South Asia

Yuval Eldar

Partner GM IoT / OT Security

Bill Gates

Co-Founder

Nir Giller

Partner and Director of IoT and OT Security

Scott Guthrie

Executive Vice President

Rashida Hodge

VP, Azure Data and AI | Customer Success

Philip Meyer

Partner Technology Strategist - Hosting and Cloud

Brandon Middaugh

Senior Director, Climate Innovation Fund

Ashok Misra

Principal PM Manager

Satya Nadella

CEO

Patricia Obermaier

Vice President, US Health and Life Sciences

Emily Rich

Director of Startups

Mohammed Saleh

Health Director

Brad Smith

President

Emilia Zarei

Founder and CEO

Past deals in Storage Services

EnergSoft

Seed Round in 2021
Energsoft, Inc. offers a sophisticated software as a service (SaaS) platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance the development and management of energy storage devices, such as batteries and ultracapacitors. The platform provides advanced visualization and analytics tools that allow manufacturers to monitor thousands of energy storage systems from research and development through to real-world applications. By integrating data from various sources, including testing equipment and actual usage, Energsoft helps optimize charging strategies, predict battery performance, and improve production efficiency. The company addresses the challenges researchers face in managing extensive characterization data, which includes cycling curves, impedance, and aging data, all of which can vary significantly based on processing and environmental conditions. Energsoft aims to innovate within the energy sector by facilitating the discovery of new materials for renewable energy storage, thereby contributing to solutions for one of society's most pressing scientific challenges.

Mover

Acquisition in 2019
Mover focuses on medium to large business cloud migrations and backups. Mover was created to streamline the process of transferring users data to the cloud. They can use Mover to change cloud-storage providers, back up their website or files, all while reducing user anxiety about how and where their data is being transferred. Once they are signed up, it takes just a few clicks to start their transfers.

ColdHubs

Grant in 2018
Cold Hubs is a Solar Powered Cold Storage .

GitHub

Acquisition in 2018
GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers/people to build software for open source and private projects in organizations. It designs and develops an online platform to allows users to store and share codes repositories with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. GitHub has a strategic partnership with International Business Machines Corporation. It was founded on February 29, 2008, by Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Avere Systems

Acquisition in 2018
Avere Systems, Inc. specializes in cloud file storage infrastructure, focusing on hybrid cloud NAS architecture. The company provides a range of products, including Virtual FXT Edge filers, which serve as network-attached storage in the compute cloud, and CloudFusion, a cloud-based file system that streamlines file management by eliminating the use of isolated storage silos. Avere's offerings also include various software solutions for storage management, data migration, data protection, and cloud integration. These solutions enable enterprises to optimize storage performance while reducing complexity and costs associated with data storage. Avere serves multiple industries, including government, financial services, media and entertainment, life sciences, oil and gas, and software development. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Avere Systems operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Azure, leveraging advanced storage technology to enhance data accessibility and security for its clients.

Cycle Computing

Acquisition in 2017
Cycle Computing LLC specializes in developing software tools and solutions for high-performance computing and data management. Founded in 2005 and based in Stamford, Connecticut, the company offers a range of products, including CycleServer for grid management and CycleCloud, a cloud orchestration platform designed to facilitate the deployment and management of computing resources across various environments. Additionally, it provides Grill for CycleServer, a comprehensive monitoring solution. Cycle Computing serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies, small and medium-sized businesses, government research entities, and academic institutions, both domestically and internationally. Its offerings are utilized across several industries, such as finance, defense, energy, and pharmaceuticals, and are available as licensed software or as a service. As of August 2017, Cycle Computing operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

BoCloud

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
BoCloud provides professional cloud computing services for enterprise customers, focusing on PaaS technology. BoCloud helps enterprises achieve private hybrid Cloud Architecture of IT system and automatic maintenance, to realize the unification of multiple resources management. Their core management team comes from the ISCAS, Microsoft, Ali cloud, HUAWEI. BoCloud has a number of independent intellectual property rights in the IaaS/PaaS/Automation Maintenance field.

Caicloud

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Caicloud is a private cloud computing company founded in July 2015 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China. The company specializes in providing Kubernetes-based Cluster-as-a-Service (CaaS) solutions, with its latest product, CaaS 2.0, enhancing cluster management through improved security, DevOps capabilities, application orchestration, and troubleshooting intelligence. This new version builds upon its initial CaaS offering from December 2015 and is designed to integrate with public clouds and on-premises infrastructures such as VMware and OpenStack. Caicloud serves several Fortune 500 companies by delivering enterprise Kubernetes distributions. Additionally, the company has developed TensorFlow-as-a-Service (TaaS) to create a comprehensive "Cloud + AI" solution for enterprises, offering features like automatic anomaly detection and data-driven troubleshooting. Caicloud is also notable for its contributions to the Kubernetes community, having open-sourced various plugins, tools, and a Kubernetes-native CI/CD project named Cyclone.

Open Build Service

Acquisition in 2017
The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. Open Build Service can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures.

QingYuan

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
The company was established in 2015, focusing on cloud-computing based on ;containers;a virtualization technology, which packages data in such a way that greatly speeds up the cloudcomputing operation process.The core product-Qingyuanos Container cloud platform,is tailored for the enterprise production environment.

Cycle Computing

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Cycle Computing LLC specializes in developing software tools and solutions for high-performance computing and data management. Founded in 2005 and based in Stamford, Connecticut, the company offers a range of products, including CycleServer for grid management and CycleCloud, a cloud orchestration platform designed to facilitate the deployment and management of computing resources across various environments. Additionally, it provides Grill for CycleServer, a comprehensive monitoring solution. Cycle Computing serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies, small and medium-sized businesses, government research entities, and academic institutions, both domestically and internationally. Its offerings are utilized across several industries, such as finance, defense, energy, and pharmaceuticals, and are available as licensed software or as a service. As of August 2017, Cycle Computing operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Uknower

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Youshi Yunchuang (Beijing) Technology provides tax services through a cloud computing platform. The company is based in Beijing, China.

LeanCloud

Venture Round in 2015
Leancloud is a Chinese company that provides backend cloud services specifically designed for mobile application developers. Offering a range of tools and platforms, it operates as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider. The company's services include data storage, real-time messaging, message push, and statistical analysis, all aimed at enhancing the development process for application creators. By focusing on the needs of developers, Leancloud facilitates efficient application development and management.

Alauda

Series A in 2015
Alauda (Beijing, China) is a cloud services provider at the forefront of empowering Enterprise IT with Continuous Innovation in the Digital Age. With its Enterprise Container Platform product offering, along with other strategic services, Alauda focuses on delivering Cloud Native capabilities and DevOps best practices to help enterprises modernize application architecture, maximize developer productivity, and achieve operational excellence. Alauda is proudly serving organizations undergoing Digital Transformation across a number of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, aviation, energy and automotive.

Scoreoid

Venture Round in 2015
The Ultimate Gaming Backend-as-a-Service for Game Developers! Scoreoid - developed by game developers, for game developers is a non-restrictive, reliable and easy to use Gaming Backend-as-a-Service. They help game developers to retain and engage with their players!

AttachingIT

Venture Round in 2015
Businesses are moving to the cloud. The cloud offers services that will make their IT infrastructure cheaper and more scalable with less maintenance. Although the cloud is very interesting for businesses, there are major security and privacy concerns. Due to fear or strict regulations, businesses struggle with secrecy, control and ownership of data in the cloud. For these reasons most businesses choose to go for private clouds and even legacy on premise solutions, making unnecessary costs and effort. Secrecy of data mainly depends on encryption and key management. Cloud providers provide encryption services but hold the keys to this encryption and are therefore a shared reader of the content. If data is encrypted before it is stored, most cloud providers nowadays have enough computation power to break ciphers that are considered safe. Up until now there is no technology that will leverage the power of cloud scalability whilst maintaining full secrecy of data that is stored. One solution next to encryption that would increase secrecy is to chunk data and distribute it over multiple cloud containers or providers. Although you hold the keys, the increase of secrecy with this approach might still lead to partially readable data if the cipher is broken.

Outlyer

Venture Round in 2015
Outlyer is a cloud-based infrastructure monitoring platform designed for DevOps and microservices, catering to the needs of development operations teams. It offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities across the entire technology stack, including servers, cloud providers, databases, and containers. The platform provides customizable dashboards, analytics, and alerts, allowing teams to easily set up and manage their monitoring processes. By delivering insights that help organizations maintain agility and predict workflow dynamics, Outlyer enables clients to effectively plan for growth while ensuring robust performance monitoring.

xCloud

Venture Round in 2015
xCloud is the newest branch of D-Team Inc.D-Team Inc.established in Nov.2009,is committed to research and develop related technology to cloud storage and have become a leading cloud storage facilitator,servering all the global.There are three professional teams who provides the customers top quality product and best services. The develop team of D-Team Inc.concentrates on personal cloud storage and data transmission,they devoted every effort to design and develop safe,stable and fast cloud storage software for all customers. The support team of D-Team Inc.offer the best service customers can expect.They listen to any customers,and pay careful attention to and handle every problem in moment.They guarantee no customer trapped in any problem. The sales team of D-Team Inc is in charge of everything that is relate to customers purchase.They help customers make the right purchase so that customer can get the license shipped as soon as they can. We,D-Team Inc.provides top quality cloud storage software and best service,above make every customer saftisfied.xCloud, make your life enjoyable.

LeanCloud

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Leancloud is a Chinese company that provides backend cloud services specifically designed for mobile application developers. Offering a range of tools and platforms, it operates as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider. The company's services include data storage, real-time messaging, message push, and statistical analysis, all aimed at enhancing the development process for application creators. By focusing on the needs of developers, Leancloud facilitates efficient application development and management.

Outlyer

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Outlyer is a cloud-based infrastructure monitoring platform designed for DevOps and microservices, catering to the needs of development operations teams. It offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities across the entire technology stack, including servers, cloud providers, databases, and containers. The platform provides customizable dashboards, analytics, and alerts, allowing teams to easily set up and manage their monitoring processes. By delivering insights that help organizations maintain agility and predict workflow dynamics, Outlyer enables clients to effectively plan for growth while ensuring robust performance monitoring.

AttachingIT

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Businesses are moving to the cloud. The cloud offers services that will make their IT infrastructure cheaper and more scalable with less maintenance. Although the cloud is very interesting for businesses, there are major security and privacy concerns. Due to fear or strict regulations, businesses struggle with secrecy, control and ownership of data in the cloud. For these reasons most businesses choose to go for private clouds and even legacy on premise solutions, making unnecessary costs and effort. Secrecy of data mainly depends on encryption and key management. Cloud providers provide encryption services but hold the keys to this encryption and are therefore a shared reader of the content. If data is encrypted before it is stored, most cloud providers nowadays have enough computation power to break ciphers that are considered safe. Up until now there is no technology that will leverage the power of cloud scalability whilst maintaining full secrecy of data that is stored. One solution next to encryption that would increase secrecy is to chunk data and distribute it over multiple cloud containers or providers. Although you hold the keys, the increase of secrecy with this approach might still lead to partially readable data if the cipher is broken.

Stone Mountain

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Stone Mountain is a public video cloud platform for enterprise customers.

Parature

Acquisition in 2014
Parature provides on-demand customer service software, making it possible for any business to leverage the Internet to provide outstanding customer service and online support. Parature provides an efficient way to serve, support, retain, engage with and maximize the value of every customer. Parature's software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery and integrated, intuitive design enable organizations to run efficiently. Parature's flagship product, Parature Customer Service software, integrates a customer portal, rich knowledgebase and full trouble ticket software in one dynamic system that manages all your support needs. Parature announced a new social response management product called "Parature for Facebook", the Industry's First and Only Customer Service Application for Directly Engaging with Customers, Prospects and Fans on Facebook. The product now supports Twitter as well. Founded in 2001, today Parature helps support more than 55 million end users worldwide. Parature is at work in a wide variety of organizations including national associations, leading educational institutions, technology companies, and diverse industries from gaming/interactive media & entertainment, to retail, healthcare and government. Source: [Karan Rawat](http://seosmomarketing.blogspot.com/)

BuildersCloud

Series A in 2013
BuildersCloud makes sharing, accessing and working with construction documents incredibly easy. Top construction industry leaders have endorsed BuildersCloud for: •document and communication exchange between offices/field •patent-pending technology to process data in cloud (creates zero-latency in exchange of information) •instant SMS, Web, and Email sharing of critical updates (mobile, PC, tablets) •PDF, image and photo collaboration tools •remote productivity controls •customer-friendly and intuitive design

MetricsHub

Venture Round in 2013
MetricsHub offers cloud monitoring that keeps web applications up and running for the lowest possible cost. MetricsHub tracks key metrics and takes automatic actions in order to save money on cloud hosting bills, time spent on server administration and improve business continuity. MetricsHub is essential to the operational success of the growing number of companies with IT and product groups using cloud services (e.g. Microsoft Azure).

Airpost

Seed Round in 2013
Airpost is a company that offers cloud-based solutions aimed at enhancing employee productivity within enterprises. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Airpost provides a cloud security dashboard and activity monitor that enables businesses to identify and manage the consumer applications utilized by their employees. In addition, the company has developed tools that facilitate the management of cloud storage services, allowing users to upload, download, and access files across various platforms through web, mobile, or desktop applications.

BuildersCloud

Seed Round in 2013
BuildersCloud makes sharing, accessing and working with construction documents incredibly easy. Top construction industry leaders have endorsed BuildersCloud for: •document and communication exchange between offices/field •patent-pending technology to process data in cloud (creates zero-latency in exchange of information) •instant SMS, Web, and Email sharing of critical updates (mobile, PC, tablets) •PDF, image and photo collaboration tools •remote productivity controls •customer-friendly and intuitive design

MetricsHub

Acquisition in 2013
MetricsHub offers cloud monitoring that keeps web applications up and running for the lowest possible cost. MetricsHub tracks key metrics and takes automatic actions in order to save money on cloud hosting bills, time spent on server administration and improve business continuity. MetricsHub is essential to the operational success of the growing number of companies with IT and product groups using cloud services (e.g. Microsoft Azure).

Airpost

Venture Round in 2012
Airpost is a company that offers cloud-based solutions aimed at enhancing employee productivity within enterprises. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Airpost provides a cloud security dashboard and activity monitor that enables businesses to identify and manage the consumer applications utilized by their employees. In addition, the company has developed tools that facilitate the management of cloud storage services, allowing users to upload, download, and access files across various platforms through web, mobile, or desktop applications.

MetricsHub

Seed Round in 2012
MetricsHub offers cloud monitoring that keeps web applications up and running for the lowest possible cost. MetricsHub tracks key metrics and takes automatic actions in order to save money on cloud hosting bills, time spent on server administration and improve business continuity. MetricsHub is essential to the operational success of the growing number of companies with IT and product groups using cloud services (e.g. Microsoft Azure).

Backand

Venture Round in 2012
Backand provides an all inclusive platform enabling developers to build and run scalable, complete serverless applications with AWS Lambda, simplifying the implementation of microservices architecture. Backand’s multi-service infrastructure also offers Security (SECaaS), Integration (IaaS) and Database (DBaaS) as a service, adding powerful capabilities to your web and mobile applications including social login, security, user management, hosting, a database API, Ionic support, push notifications and pre-integrated third party services. Backand eliminates the need for developers to setup or maintain infrastructure, allowing for faster app creation without the backend hassles.

FolderShare

Acquisition in 2005
FolderShare allowed users to upload documents for group viewing and collaboration, synchronize the document across multiple computers, and access files remotely. Foldershare was acquired by Microsoft in November of 2005. See the Microsoft FolderShare product page.

CenterBeam

Series B in 2000
CenterBeam, a subsidiary of EarthLink Business, is a U.S.-based IT managed service provider focused on serving mid-sized businesses. Since its acquisition by EarthLink in 2013, CenterBeam has established a strong reputation for delivering cloud-based IT services, leveraging a subscription pricing model to provide clients with on-demand IT capacity. The company specializes in offering enterprise-class information technology management, services, and support, presenting executives with a viable alternative to traditional IT funding and operational methods, which often involve significant investments in personnel, equipment, and overhead costs.

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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