Microsoft's fund that backs artificial intelligence and technology startups.
Portfolio
9
companies
Beamery
Beamery provides an AI powered talent platform that helps enterprises manage and deploy workforce skills.
Deployed
Deployed provides software for writing project scopes.
Hazy
Hazy provides synthetic data solutions that enable enterprises to utilise sensitive information securely.
Memgraph
Memgraph develops a streaming graph application platform for modern software developers.
Onfido
Onfido provides digital identity verification and authentication through artificial intelligence.
SuperAwesome
SuperAwesome provides technology that powers safe digital interactions for children online.
Unify
Unify offers a single interface to test and deploy large language models across various providers.
Webiny
Webiny develops an open-source framework that helps engineers build and deploy serverless applications.
iLoF
iLoF develops an artificial intelligence powered photonics platform for personalised medicine.
Tamara Steffens
Managing Director
Matthew Goldstein
Managing Director and UK Lead
Matthew serves as General Partner at TLA.vc, following a role as Managing Director and UK Lead at M12. His background includes non-executive directorships and board observations across several technology companies.
LinkedInPriyanka Mitra
Investor
Peter Berg
Managing Partner
Peter brings extensive IT service management experience from roles at If Insurance, Telia Cygate, and Cygate, alongside earlier entrepreneurial experience founding pb connect. He also serves as a managing partner at M12.
LinkedInThe funding round was backed by participants including Y Combinator, A Capital, and SignalFire.
"The world is missing out on a lot of AI’s potential because it’s too slow, complex, and expensive to deploy. Unify is going to change that!"
The round was co-led by Amrock Ventures and M12 to support product development and team growth.
"It’s empowering to be part of the “2% of the 2%” (only 2% of VC investment goes to majority female founders and of that, less than 2% is in Enterprise SaaS). With most corporate work now globally distributed, project based and delivered by third parties, we need a new way to engage for services. We started Deployed to help everyone define work better and align on clear objectives early on"
The Series A round was led by Conviction with participation from numerous strategic and venture capital investors.
"The response from businesses to the capabilities of synthetic data has been huge. Enabling our customers to access and actually use their data unlocks real commercial value. Hazy has been working in the generative AI field since our inception in 2017 and we are excited to see where the space goes. This funding will solidify our position as the leading synthetic data provider for enterprises to unlock value through their data and enable us to explore the greater potential of generative AI to produce real results for businesses, with no privacy limitations."
The investment round was co-led by Microsoft arm M12 and Amrock Ventures.
The seed round was led by Faber with participation from international venture funds to support clinical trial operations.
"For hundreds of years, treatments have been developed with the assumption they will work for everyone. However, each person is different, and for many severe diseases such as Alzheimer’s, multiple factors can contribute to the effectiveness of a treatment on a given patient."
