UK companies win both international prizes in Microsoft’s Female Founders Competition

Two female-founded companies in the UK will share millions of pounds in funding after winning the second Female Founders Competition coordinated by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. Deployed, a London-based business that has created a productivity platform, and iLoF, an AI healthcare business from Oxford, have been named Global Winners of the Enterprise Software and Deeptech prizes, respectively. They join two winners from the US, Huue and Webee, who will all share $6 million in funding from M12, Mayfield and Melinda Gates’s Pivotal Ventures. They will also be given access to…

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