Stuff Bill Gates likely funded in 2020

09/22/19 (last of 2019) - Echodyne, a Kirkland, Wash.-based maker of high-performance radars for government and commercial markets, raised $20 million in funding. Investors include Bill Gates, Madrona Ventures, NEA, Vulcan Capital, Lux Capital and Vanedge Capital.
01/08/20- - Evolv Technology, a Waltham, Mass-based developer of weapons-screening and threat detection systems, raised $30 million in funding. Investors include Finback Investment Partners, Bill Gates, DCVC, General Catalyst Partners, Lux Capital, and SineWave Ventures.

01/22/20 -- Memphis Meats, a San Francisco-based company that grows meat from animal cells, raised $161 million in Series B funding. SoftBank Group, Norwest and Temasek co-led the round, and were joined by investors including Richard Branson,
Bill Gates, Threshold Ventures, Cargill, Tyson Foods, Finistere, Future Ventures, Kimbal Musk, Fifty Years, CPT Capital, KBW Ventures and Vulcan Capital.

02/27/20 -Schrodinger Inc., a New York-based predictive molecule-discovery software platform maker for biopharmaceuticals, raised $202 million in an offering of 11.9 million shares priced at $17, above its $14 to $16 range. The firm posted revenue of $66.7 million and loss of $28.4 million in 2018. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and David E. Shaw back the firm. It plans to list on the Nasdaq as “SDGR.” “ Read more.”

03/26/2020 - - Kallyope Inc., a New York-based biotech focused on therapies for the gut-brain axis, raised $112 million Series C funding. Existing investors Column Group, Lux Capital, Polaris Partners, Euclidean Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Illumina Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, and Bill Gates invested. New investors include Casdin Capital, Greenspring Associates, and two unnamed leading institutional investors.

03/31/2020  - Natel Energy, a hydroelectric equipment manufacturer and developer, raised $11 million in funding. Schneider Electric Ventures led the round, and was joined by investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures Fund, a fund founded by Bill Gates.

04/15/20 -Cerevance, a Cambridge, Mass.-based drug discovery and development company focused on brain diseases, raised $45 million in Series B funding. GV (formerly Google Ventures), Bill Gates, and Foresite Capital invested, along with Takeda Ventures, the Dementia Discovery Fund, and Lightstone Ventures.

6/26/20 - Enko's , a company using machine learning techniques to sort through chemical compounds to find promising candidates for new active ingredients, raised $45 million led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation alongside Anterra Capital, the Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund, Finistere Ventures, Novalis LifeSciences, Germin8 Ventures, and TO Ventures Food.

09/22/20- - Illumina agreed to acquire Grail, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based cancer detection startup it helped found, for $8 billion in cash and stock. Investors included Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

08/10/20 - - Vicarious Surgical, a Boston, Mass.-based maker of a surgical robotics platform, raised $13.2 million in funding. Philip Liang of E15 Capital led the round and was joined by investors including Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and AME Cloud Ventures.