A New Chapter Has Begun. Today We Are Welcoming Cohort VIII - Average Funding $12m The Highest So Far In The Microsoft Accelerator London History.

Microsoft Accelerator London has chosen emerging companies from the business applications and advanced technologies space resulting in the most advanced Jury day London has hosted. Some of these companies include fintech, IOT, big data, artificial intelligence, digital marketing and a host of others.

Innovative technologies which consist of Al, Cloud computing, IOT learning as well as matching intelligence are pushing digital transformation worldwide and creating new opportunities and challenges to each industry.

Ranked 30th by M.I.T Technology Review’s Top 50 Smartest Company List, SOPHiA GENETICS joins us from Switzerland. Aiming to be the global leader in Data-Driven Medicine, this dedicated team of experts brings together clinical genomics and artificial intelligence to deliver SOPHiA AI the most advanced technology for genomics analysis. SOPHiA GENETICS’ Community counts over 330 leading hospitals and is today helping better diagnose and treat thousands of patients every month. CEO Jurgi Camblong

CheckRecipient is one of the pioneering Cyber Security Scale-ups.  CheckRecipient is a next generation email security platform which uses machine learning to automatically prevent highly sensitive emails being sent to the wrong person with zero admin, no end user behaviour change and minimal end user disruption. CEO Tim Sadler

The Quantexa team is joining us from London, Sydney, and Brussels with a speciality in Analytics of Big Data for Financial Services. Quantexa's unique entity resolution and network building technology helps you to enrich your vast data assets, allowing you to make more cost effective and improved data-driven decisions. CEO Vishal Marria

Veridum is one of the leading companies in the UK for Tier 1 banks in Biometrics and Identity. Veridium’s multi-factor authentication solutions integrate with your existing corporate authentication infrastructure without the need for any additional hardware. This strengthens existing solutions beyond tokens or passwords by having employees or customers verify their identity with biometrics from a mobile or web app. CEO James Stickland

Unbabel is the 2nd largest scale-ups in Portugal is Unababel. They specialize in Machine Translation, and Jason Nadal of DX Portugal is responsible for bringing them to us. Unbabel is accelerating the shift towards a world without language barriers by enabling trustworthy, seamless and scalable translations between companies and their customers. International businesses trust Unbabel’s enterprise platform to open up and grow new markets by harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence and a global community of mobile linguists. Backed by Notion Capital, Google Ventures, Caixa Capital and Y Combinator, Unbabel is helping customers like Pinterest, Skyscanner, Under Armour, Trello and Oculus VR to understand and be understood. CEO Vasco Pedro

TV beat becomes a part of the team from Croatia and is scaling worldwide in the sector of TV Media Analytics. TVbeat helps broadcast media companies to make their cross-screen TV Audience Data a core revenue asset to maximize TV audience targeting, media planning & forecasting, and post-campaign reporting. It achieves this through its highly scalable platform which can ingest, process & fuse fragmented unstructured TV audience datasets. Capturing TV Viewership, Customer and Advertising data at any scale across all connected devices, including connected set-top boxes. CEO Robert Farazin

Yecco is a Healthcare IOT platform which is well-funded and currently providing support for more than 9,000 residents who are aging. They are also scaling across USA, UK, and Australia. Yecco is a fast growing, dynamic mHealth and software company specializing in delivering software and hardware IoT solutions for remote monitoring, self-management of chronic conditions, and assisting older and more vulnerable people to live independently. Yecco’s services can help save costs, prevent hospital admission and provide better patient outcomes in order to deploy expert services where most needed. CEO Janet Jadavji

Manual.to is joining us from Brussels and they are one of the Global BNP Paribas Hackathon regional winners. Transforming old and boring industry manuals into a marketplace which is cloud based. Manual.to is providing mobile manual technology to medium and large corporations, lowering their production costs and enhancing the customer user experience. In addition, Manual.to offers unique benefits for companies trying to build relationships with their customers after sales, and decreases the cost of after sales support. CEO Jorim Rademaker

Polystream is responsible for operating a platform for streaming games to provide games online without downloads and playing on devices instantly. Polystream is the world's first 3D, pixel perfect, application streaming platform. Free from the restrictions, hardware, and limitations of existing GPU streaming technologies, Polystream is completely redefining how businesses can instantly reach, engage and grow their customers from any cloud, at any scale, anywhere. CEO Bruce Grove

Paymentology is one of the HiPo start-ups in London. They provide their services to the banking sector in the issuer side payment processing. Paymentology was born through a passion for exploring the complex engineering problems involved in today’s payment processing systems. Paymentology have developed what they believe to be the most flexible and most dynamic authorisation processing system available today. This enables “One for all” processing for companies requiring processing for complex card programs. CEO Shane O' Hara

Main investors: Accel, LocalGlobe, Episode 1, Intel Cap, Notion, GV, YC, Caixa, Balderton.