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Bill Gates is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Microsoft, a firm he co-founded in 1975. Subsequent to Microsoft, Gates founder and is now Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a Trustee of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust where he sets the overall direction of the organization and its philanthropic and development initiatives.

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Sep 30, 2023
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Bill Gates Investments
90 Investments
Bill Gates has made 90 investments. Their latest investment was in Vendah as part of their Seed VC - II on August 8, 2023.

Bill Gates Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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8/24/2023 | Seed VC - II | Vendah | $2.34M | Yes | Ariel Lambrecht, Bill Gates, Bob Iger, Domo Invest, Goodwater Capital, Jeff Bezos, Marcia Netto, Mark Zuckerberg, Norte Ventures, Robson Privado, Sarah Blakely, Sergio Furio, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Village Global, and Y Combinator | 1 |
9/12/2022 | Series F | Nimbus Therapeutics | $125M | No | 4 | |
8/24/2022 | Series A | Lumotive | No | 1 | ||
8/15/2022 | Unattributed | |||||
6/13/2022 | Series C |
Date | 8/24/2023 | 9/12/2022 | 8/24/2022 | 8/15/2022 | 6/13/2022 |
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Round | Seed VC - II | Series F | Series A | Unattributed | Series C |
Company | Vendah | Nimbus Therapeutics | Lumotive | ||
Amount | $2.34M | $125M | |||
New? | Yes | No | No | ||
Co-Investors | Ariel Lambrecht, Bill Gates, Bob Iger, Domo Invest, Goodwater Capital, Jeff Bezos, Marcia Netto, Mark Zuckerberg, Norte Ventures, Robson Privado, Sarah Blakely, Sergio Furio, Undisclosed Angel Investors, Village Global, and Y Combinator | ||||
Sources | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Bill Gates Portfolio Exits
10 Portfolio Exits
Bill Gates has 10 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Carbon Engineering on August 15, 2023.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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8/15/2023 | Acquired | 6 | |||
12/31/2021 | Reverse Merger | 9 | |||
12/14/2021 | Reverse Merger | 5 | |||
Date | 8/15/2023 | 12/31/2021 | 12/14/2021 | ||
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Exit | Acquired | Reverse Merger | Reverse Merger | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 6 | 9 | 5 |
Bill Gates Partners & Customers
1 Partners and customers
Bill Gates has 1 strategic partners and customers. Bill Gates recently partnered with SK Bioscience on January 1, 2013.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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1/1/2013 | Partner | South Korea | SK chairman discusses global health commitments with Gates SK Bioscience has partnered with the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation since 2013 . | 1 |
Date | 1/1/2013 |
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Type | Partner |
Business Partner | |
Country | South Korea |
News Snippet | SK chairman discusses global health commitments with Gates SK Bioscience has partnered with the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation since 2013 . |
Sources | 1 |