# Bill Gates at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

> Bill Gates, Co-Chairman at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 38 investments on record. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each...

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Person

# Bill Gates

Co-Chairman at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Email

Stages *Series C* *Series B* *Series D*

Backs *Manufacturing* *Industry 4.0* *Advanced Manufacturing* *Healthcare*

Latest rounds

- **TerraPower** Round · $650M Jun 2025
- **Echodyne** Round · $20M Sept 2019
- **Fictiv** Series C · $33M Mar 2019

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Profile summary

- **Rounds named:** 38 last Jun 2025
- **Filings:** - with regulators
- **Books:** 5 written

What this record rests on

- ✓ **Named in rounds** 38 rounds name them
- **On filings** No filing names them
- **Linked to a firm** No firm on record
- **Claimed** Not claimed yet

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## Rounds they were named in

- **Rounds:** 38
- **Led:** 1
- **Disclosed:** $1.7B
- **Active:** 2008–25

2025

- [TerraPower](https://millionrounds.com/company/terrapower) *Round* **$650M** *US* Jun 2025 Joined · +4 investors

2019

- [Echodyne](https://millionrounds.com/company/echodyne) *Round* **$20M** *US* Sept 2019 Joined · +4 investors
- [Fictiv](https://millionrounds.com/company/fictiv) *Series C* **$33M** *US* Mar 2019 Joined · +5 investors

2018

- [Nimbus](https://millionrounds.com/company/nimbus) *Round* **$65M** *US* Jun 2018 Joined · +6 investors
- [Fictiv](https://millionrounds.com/company/fictiv) *Series B* **$15M** *US* May 2018 Joined · +5 investors
- [EtaGen](https://millionrounds.com/company/etagen) *Series C* **$83M** *US* Jan 2018 Joined · +6 investors

2017

- [Impossible Foods](https://millionrounds.com/company/impossible-foods) *Round* **$75M** *US* Aug 2017 Joined · +3 investors
- [Pivotal Commware](https://millionrounds.com/company/pivotal-commware) *Round* **$17M** *US* Jun 2017 Joined · +3 investors
- [Change.org](https://millionrounds.com/company/change-org) *Round* **$30M** *US* May 2017 Joined · +2 investors
- [Evolv Technology](https://millionrounds.com/company/evolv-technology) *Series B* **$18M** *US* Mar 2017 Joined · +3 investors

2016

- [Kymeta](https://millionrounds.com/company/kymeta) *Round* **$62M** Nov 2016 Led · +8 investors
- [Renmatix](https://millionrounds.com/company/renmatix) *Round* **$14M** *US* Sept 2016 Joined · +1 investor

By stage

- Series C **9**
- Round **8**
- Series B **8**
- Series D **5**
- Venture **3**

What they backed

Manufacturing **3** Industry 4.0 **3** Advanced Manufacturing **2** Healthcare **2** Hardware & Electronics **2** Biotech **2**

Alongside

- [Lux Capital *3*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lux-capital)
- [Intel *2*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/intel)
- [Khosla *2*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/khosla-ventures)
- [Accel *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/accel)
- [American Electric Power *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/american-electric-power)
- [Atlas *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/atlas-2)
- [Centrica *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/centrica-innovations)
- [DCVC *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/data-collective)

The latest 12 of 38. Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names.

## Their books

- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Bill Gates · 2021 4.11 from 51,804 ratings on Goodreads About the book Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he… On AmazonListen on Audible
- Source Code: My Beginnings Bill Gates · 2025 4.15 from 15,248 ratings on Goodreads About the book The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age. The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry… On AmazonListen on Audible
- Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy Bill Gates · 1999 3.80 from 4,772 ratings on Goodreads About the book In his new book, Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates discusses how technology can help run businesses better today and how it will transform the nature of business in the near future. Gates stresses the need for managers to view technology not as overhead but as a strategic… On AmazonListen on Audible
- Business at the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System Bill Gates · 1999 3.80 from 4,761 ratings on Goodreads About the book Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft. He thinks that businesses use computers in the same way we use our nervous system. In this book, he describes his idea of a 'Digital Nervous System' - a way for companies to get as much as possible from all the money they have spent on… On AmazonListen on Audible
- The Road Ahead Bill Gates · 1995 3.74 from 4,411 ratings on Goodreads About the book Welcome to “The Road Ahead.” We have all been bombarded by the seemingly endless hype about the information highway and the coming age of technology. Now, Bill Gates – who built Microsoft into one of the most successful companies in the world – gives us his vision of what the… On AmazonListen on Audible
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