Tamara Steffens, a GCV Powerlist 2021 award winner and managing director at software producer Microsoft’s corporate venturing unit, M12, is joining media company Thomson Reuters next week, The Information has reported.
Steffens is expected to help launch Thomson Reuters’ new corporate venture capital fund. It said in October 2021 it would launch a $100m vehicle dubbed Thomson Reuters Ventures to focus on technology capable of supporting “future professionals”.
Based in San Francisco, Steffens had led investing and market development for M12 in North America and India and was the executive sponsor of its Female Founders Competition. She has an operational and entrepreneurial background stemming from more than two decades of experience in Silicon Valley at both startups and large technology companies.
Steffens’ last startup was mobile productivity app developer Acompli, where she led sales and business development. Microsoft acquired Acompli (now Outlook Mobile) in 2014, after which Steffens took up a general manager role to lead business development for the broader Office 365 organisation.
