Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
VC Fund
New York, United States
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a VC fund in New York focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a grant-making foundation that supports initiatives in education, world health and population, and community giving in the Pacific Northwest. In its local region, the foundation promotes strategies and programs that help low income families.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was co-founded by BillGates and Melinda Gates in 2000 and is based in Seattle, Washington, with regional offices in Washington, D.C.; New Delhi, India; Beijing, China; and London, United Kingdom. Its trustees are Bill and Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett.
- Total investments:
- 408
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 76%
- Fund size:
- $50M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invests in
Stages Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invests in
Countries Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Grant
- $500k–$15M
- Series A
- $5M–$60M
- Series B
- $7.2M–$85M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 165 (40%)
- Health Care 126 (31%)
- Medical 68 (17%)
- Pharmaceutical 60 (15%)
- Therapeutics 31 (8%)
Stage
- Grant 258 (63%)
- Series A 24 (6%)
- Series B 15 (4%)
- Seed 11 (3%)
- Series C 11 (3%)
Country
- United States 158 (39%)
- United Kingdom 24 (6%)
- India 14 (3%)
- Canada 11 (3%)
- The Netherlands 10 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bill Gates
Co-Chairman of the Board
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Co-Chairman of the Board | Total investments: 100 | Find email | |
Bill Gates
Co-Chairman of the Board
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Co-Chairman of the Board | Total investments: 95 | Find email | |
Brian Arbogast
Director of the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Program
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Director of the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Program | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Chris Karp
Director, Global Health Discovery & Translational Sciences
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Director, Global Health Discovery & Translational Sciences | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Dan Hartman
Director, Integrated Development; Interim Director, Malaria. Global Health
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Director, Integrated Development; Interim Director, Malaria. Global Health | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 23 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| AN2 Therapeutics, Inc. is a California-based global health biopharmaceutical company focused on modern biomedical and drug development expertise to provide transformational medicines for patients suffering from infectious diseases. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States. | Grant / Sep 28, 2026 | ||
| ProFound Therapeutics is creating profound impacts on the understanding of biology and disease and the ability to create therapeutics that would not have previously been possible. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 27, 2026 | ||
| Readily Diagnostics develops speedy and accurate diagnostic tests for respiratory disorders, enabling faster and more effective therapy at the point of care. | $970K / Grant / Aug 27, 2026 | ||
| Civitas ID builds a human-centric digital ID platform to help displaced people gain legally recognized credentials and access services. | $500K / Grant / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| Leyden Labs aims to help people live their lives to the fullest. Its platform targets commonalities of viral families to protect humanity from known and future viruses. Its portfolio of accessible intranasal product candidates may provide people with the freedom to immediately protect themselves from and prevent the spread of many strains ofrespiratory viruses, including ones in the influenza and coronavirus families. The Company’s energetic team of world-renown biotechnology veterans and fresh talent is dedicated to thinking differently to free humanity from the burden of respiratory viruses. | $45.4M / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Replicate Bioscience is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing self-replicating RNA (srRNA) technology to enhance the effectiveness of RNA-based therapeutics beyond traditional mRNA approaches. Its platform is designed to deliver stronger biological activity, more durable immune responses, and an improved therapeutic index. The company’slead program, RBI-4000, an srRNA-based rabies vaccine, has shown protective immunity at lower doses than any mRNA or srRNA vaccine reported to date in Phase I studies. Backed by Apple Tree Partners, Replicate is building a diverse pipeline of srRNA vaccines and therapeutics supported by a proprietary, customizable viral vector library. With extensive expertise in srRNA and integrated development capabilities, the company aims to broaden the application of RNA therapies across infectious diseases, immunology, and immuno-oncology. | $3M / Grant / Jun 19, 2026 | ||
| Nortiva Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Lexington, Massachusetts, that is pioneering long-acting oral therapies using its proprietary LYNX™ drug delivery platform. | $5M / Grant / Jun 18, 2026 | ||
| Remidio is engaged in designing & developing Smart, Innovative & Disruptive Imaging Technologies in Vision Care, using a product development approach called “Design Thinking”.As part of the Design Thinking process, Remidio takes into account different facets of a customer’s experience with a product, as part of its overall productdesign approach, with the intent of inventing a new customer experience with the product.Customers can be an amazing resource to glean insight and understanding, but they are generally not able to articulate their latent and anticipated needs. Remidio hence focuses on making quick functional prototypes, that can then be given to the customer to understand these latent needs while observing their use of the prototypes.Founded by professionals with a passion for product innovation, Remidio is currently focussed on creating game changing products and solutions in the ophthalmology space.We look at constraints posed by a developing nation context- infrastructure, skilled resources and affordable pricing as an opportunity to innovate.We bring to market very high quality products that are reliable and extremely simple to use. | Grant / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| Converge Bio integrates Generative AI with biological data. Converge Bio mission is to empower biotech and pharmaceutical companies to discover and develop more effective drugs faster, utilizing the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) specifically trained on biological languages. | $2.5M / Grant / May 27, 2026 | ||
| Evotec is a drug discovery alliance and development partnership company focused on rapidly progressing innovative product approaches with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academics, patient advocacy groups, and venture capitalists. Drug discovery solutions are provided in form of fee-for-service work, integrated drug discovery alliances,development partnerships, licensing of innovative drug candidates, and consulting arrangements. The company operates worldwide and has leading scientific experts, state-of-the-art technologies as well as key therapeutic expertise in the areas of neuroscience, diabetes, and complications of diabetes, pain and inflammation, oncology, infectious diseases, respiratory diseases, and fibrosis. By leveraging this expertise, Evotec intends to develop best-in-class and first-in-class differentiated therapeutics on its systematic, unbiased, and comprehensive infrastructure.Evotec has long-term discovery alliances with partners including Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, CHDI, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Sanofi, Takeda, UCB, and others. In addition, the company has existing development partnerships and product candidates both in clinical and pre-clinical development. These include partnerships with Sanofi in the field of diabetes and cancer immunotherapy, with Pfizer in the field of tissue fibrosis, with Bayer in the field of kidney diseases, and with Celgene in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. | $9.9M / Grant / Apr 30, 2026 | ||
| See all 408 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invest in?
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Medical startups, most often at Grant and Series A stage. Most of the 408 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's check size?
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation typically joins rounds of $500k–$15M at Grant, $5M–$60M at Series A and $7.2M–$85M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation participates in.
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Who are the partners at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?
The team at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation includes Bill Gates (Co-Chairman of the Board), Bill Gates (Co-Chairman of the Board) and Brian Arbogast (Director of the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Program), among 23 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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