Michael Stewart

Managing Partner, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)

Michael Stewart is a Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft's venture fund. Trained as a chemist, he worked on nanomaterials through a DARPA program and at Intel Research, spent years on solar cells during the clean-tech boom, and invested for seven years at Applied Ventures before joining M12. He joins to talk about what makes an AI founder stand out, the startup opportunities in the gap between sci-fi and reality, and how to pitch M12.