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Founder1,563Current founder
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Investor93Current investor
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Microsoft co-founder, Breakthrough Energy founder, and prolific climate-tech investor
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- Microsoft currently trades at a ~$1.737T market cap (MSFT, as of 2025), making Gates one of the most consequential public-company founders in history.
- TerraPower, the nuclear startup Gates founded, raised $650M from Nvidia's VC arm (NVentures), HD Hyundai, and existing investors.
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- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder of Breakthrough Energy, actively running the organization he founded in 2015.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Past co-founder of Microsoft, which he co-founded with Paul Allen in 1975.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Microsoft was co-founded with Paul Allen, confirming co-founder status.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Wikidata entity Q5284 exists for Bill Gates — a strong notability signal for one of the world's most recognized entrepreneurs.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Bill Gates as an American businessman and philanthropist.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Microsoft currently trades at a ~$1.737T market cap (MSFT, as of 2025), making Gates one of the most consequential public-company founders in history.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)40,409,234 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)breakthroughenergy.org ranks #50,911 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Recognized as one of Fortune's 100 Most Powerful People in Business and a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution — elite-tier public recognition for entrepreneurial and technological impact.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)TerraPower, the nuclear startup Gates founded, raised $650M from Nvidia's VC arm (NVentures), HD Hyundai, and existing investors.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikipedia page for Bill Gates averages well over 50,000 views/month — one of the most widely-read biographical articles on the platform.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire — notable government-level honors for technological and philanthropic contributions.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Top YouTube video 'The story behind Breakthrough Energy' has over 11 million views — exceptional thought-leadership reach.
Investor score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and investment partner, with Crunchbase listing him as an Individual/Angel investor.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Crunchbase lists 42 portfolio companies across Gates Ventures and direct investments, including Inflection AI, TerraPower, Echodyne, and others.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active GP and fund manager running Gates Ventures, his personal investment vehicle deploying capital across climate, health, and technology.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Has been actively investing since at least 1994 (over 15 years of investing experience), with a documented track record across energy, biotech, and technology.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Profiled extensively in Fortune, Forbes, and Bloomberg as one of the world's most influential investors — tier-1 outlet feature coverage of his investing activity.
What you likely need
As a serial founder operating at the intersection of climate technology, global health, and deep-tech investing, you would benefit most from high-signal gatherings with other mission-driven founders and investors working on hard problems. Events that bridge your Breakthrough Energy portfolio with the broader climate-tech and nuclear energy ecosystem — and that connect your philanthropic capital deployment with emerging founders in global health — would be the highest-leverage use of your time at Founder Festival.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA climate-tech founder dinner with Breakthrough Energy portfolio CEOs and top-tier climate VCs (Lowercarbon, Congruent, Prelude) to pressure-test 2025 deployment strategies.
- tacticalA nuclear energy roundtable with TerraPower leadership, NVentures, and other advanced-fission founders to align on regulatory and commercialization milestones.
- tacticalA global-health AI workshop with Gates Foundation grantees, OpenAI, and Anthropic teams building low-income-country health tools to accelerate joint deployment.
- fundraisingA deep-tech angel syndicate dinner with other prolific climate and biotech investors (Breakthrough Energy Ventures LPs, Arch Venture) to co-invest in hard-science seed rounds.
- hiringA Microsoft alumni founder happy hour connecting early Microsoft engineers who have since founded companies, for warm intros to technical co-founders in AI and energy.
- positioningA positioning roundtable with other founder-philanthropists (Bezos Earth Fund, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) on coordinating catalytic capital for global health and climate.
- introsAn emerging-market health-tech founder dinner spotlighting African and South Asian startups building on Gates Foundation infrastructure grants, for direct co-investment pipeline.