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François Hollande, President of France, and Satya Nadella, Director CEO of Microsoft Corporation

Our industry does not respect tradition,it only respects innovation.

During his meeting with François Hollande last November, Satya renewed our strong commitment to the French Startups.

Microsoft France officially launched its program - Microsoft for French Tech Startups - enabling entrepreneurs to benefit from a world-class technological support program and Business Development. Elaborated with leading French incubators, this offer is worth €70 Million through 3 years and will empower more than 300 startups starting this year!

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A word from Nicolas Gaume, DX directorIntroduction02

Supporting Startups as they grow

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Microsoft’s world-class program to promising startups

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Accelerating elite startups around the world08 Microsoft Ventures

10 Success Stories

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A word from Nicolas Gaume, Director DX FranceAn experienced entrepreneur now leading one of Microsoft’s core division in France.

Microsoft was born as a startup, with the strong belief that software was tochange the World. It did! Every company is now a software company.Today, bold new startups are forging disruptive digital trends to shape a newer World. Satya Nadella’s ambition to have Microsoft empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more will undoubtedly happen through partnerships and collective engagement. Our company intends to add value to the vibrant digital ecosystems of the World and deeply connect to these new startups. France has so much to offer. With a renewed entrepreneurial spirit, strong creative and technical know-how and after 20 years of work to adjust its business ecosystem to the digital economy, we believe France is now one of Europe’s new hot spots.

Microsoft has much to offer. With a long history and strong presence in France, our company provides an undisputed wide range of high-performing platforms from which new projects can arise from. From Azure to Windows 10, Office to Dynamics, Surface to HoloLens, our platforms can help great apps and services to be invented!But great ideas are not enough to make successful businesses. So we also intend to bring the passion and commitment of our teams around the world to get these new products to succeed in their markets. Whether they challenge us or bring new ideas to our own teams, we will all be successful by being at the heart of such powerful growth dynamics.Microsoft is committed to bringing compelling experiences to end-users via innovative devices and software services. Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) division is focused on “securing the future of the platform” by building a rich third-party application ecosystem, nurturing a vibrant technical community of students, startups, developers, IT professionals and independent software vendors to build commercial and consumer applications on the Microsoft platform, and drive tools revenue and share.

A Chinese proverb says: «The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.»

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Nicolas GaumeDirector DX

That’s why Microsoft has renewed this year its strong commitment to impactful startups initiatives and a series of robust programs to nurture promising new projects from top to bottom: from helping them to first build their technical infrastructure within the BizSpark program to enabling them to rationalize and dramatically reduce their time-to-market thanks to our MS Ventures acceleration programs! And once their foundations are stable and their businesses flourishing we continue interacting with them in the long run through active partnerships, leveraging particularly Microsoft worldwide sales & marketing, B2C as well as B2B organizations.

Microsoft means great business for your startup: spread the word!

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BizSpark Supporting Startups as they grow

Created in 2007 in France, BizSpark is a support program present in 165 countries all around the world. More than 100,000 startups already benefited from it and keep recommending it.A startup qualifies if it is less than 5 years old, is privately held and earns less than $1M annually. And at the end of your 3 years, it keeps all the software downloaded – at no cost.

Free Softwares900+ full features softwares

Including Office Pack, Virtual Studio, SQL Server and way more.

Join the BizSpark Family100K+ AlumniFree training

Technical Content

Microsoft Azure Cloud ServicesUp to $27.000 of FREE Azure Cloud services.

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Pose a Pet, Chicago USA

It truly hit us that we were a real startup when we became a part of the BizSpark program. When we found out that everything we needed was

available to us to develop the kind of apps we envisioned, we knew we had

a chance.

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A few prestigious BizSpark alumni

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BizSpark Plus Microsoft’s world-class program to promising startups

The BizSpark Plus offer is incredibly generous. As of July 2015, we are working closely with high-level incubators in France to provide their startups with way more support and offers than the usual BizSpark package. Here we are talking about :

A unique point of contact: the Microsoft France Startup Team!

Free supports and trainingPersonal technical support by Microsoft Experts

and acces to exclusive workshops

Business and communicationConnect with Microsoft network of VC, clients, influencers and teams.

Get free press and media coverage

Free Azure and licences$120.000 or more of free Azure cloud services, Office365 licenses, Bing

Ads Credit and much more

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Thanks to BizSpark, We had the opportunity to test our infrastructures for free!

We are using Azure from several months now and made significant savings on our

development costs!

Our key problem was to handle an enormous amount of data with constant variation. The

solution ? Microsoft Azure Cloud !

Youmiam, Paris

Reezocar, Paris

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Our Partner Incubators in France

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Microsoft Ventures Accelerating elite startups around the world

Microsoft Ventures is a global accelerator network empowering entrepreneurs from around the world in building great companies. Technologically agnostic, Microsoft Ventures aims at helping startups gain momentum based on a strong Go-to-market program and an access to international markets. Microsoft Ventures Strengths :

Unique international reachWe benefit from the best practices from our 7 accelerators worldwide.

Focus on Go to marketEmpowering startups with new customers thanks to Microsoft’s network. World class program targeting “go-to-market” issues.

Strong Alumni program450 startups worldwide sharing knowledge and contacts

$500K of free Microsoft Azure Cloud

Access to offices everywhereAdditional workspaces in San Francisco, Miami, New York, Sao Paulo, Toronto and Singapore

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$2M raised in average

21 Exits

1 IPO

PARIS

LONDON BERLIN

TEL AVIV

BANGALORE

BEIJINGSEATTLE

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Not your average Demo Day

Just as with many startup programs, all Microsoft Ventures accelerators host a Demo Day to showcase their startups to investors.In France, our Demo Days have had some top-tier attendance, including people like Xavier Niel, Marc Simocini, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Axelle Lemaire, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet – not to mention Satya Nadella himself.

We currently receive over 250 applications for each session and we select a maximum of 10 startups to work with. Therefore, we are really looking for exceptional companies.

If you know a startup looking to raise fundthat we should be working with - could beyours!, please don’t hesitate to send themour way.

More than 70 top investors.

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Success StoriesEducational marketplace Kokoroe announces funding with top French investorsEducation marketplace Kokoroe helps you find a teacher for any type of course – whether it be math or ukulele. The all-female founding team graduated from the 5th Microsoft Ventures Paris class and pitched on stage at Demo Day in February 2015.

French TV channel M6 filmed the event and Kokoroe was later featured on their famous Capital program. Shortly thereafter, the Kokoroe team was contacted by their investors – which include the likes of French billionaire Xavier Niel, Deezer founder Daniel Marhely and Facebook’s Julien Codorniou.

You can learn more about Kokoroe online at www.kokoroe.fr

You can learn more about Deepomatic online at www.deepomatic.com

Deepomatic raises $1.4 million for visual search technology

Deepomatic (formerly known as Smyle) was part of the 4th Microsoft Ventures Paris class. The team that specializes in visual search technology pitched at Demo Day in front of Satya Nadella in November 2014.

In less than a year after Demo Day, the startup had raised $1.4 million in funding with Alven Capital – one of France’s top VC funds – and Pierre Valade, the founder of calendar app Sunrise that was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year.

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Microsoft partners with Euratechnologies, one of France’s leading startup hubs

In July 2015, Microsoft France announced that it would be partnering with the leading French incubators and accelerators to better support their startups. One of these partners is Euratechnologies, which is a leading startup space based in Lille in the north of France.

Euratechnologies is a 150,000m² space that was launched in 2009 and is entirely dedicated to technology and startups. Recognized as a leading location for French innovation by La French Tech, Euratechnologies works with over 140 companies, including many well-known French startups: Addictiz, Critizr, Fitizzy and more.Through the partnership with Euratech, Microsoft offers these leading startups exceptional support – both technological and business – to ensure that these companies grow to be tomorrow’s leaders.

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For more informationBizsparkwww.microsoft.com/bizspark/

BizSpark Pluswww.microsoft.com/bizspark/plus

Microsoft Ventures www.microsoftventures.com/

Contact the teamThe French Startup Teamstartupteamfr@microsoft.com

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