The story of how Bill Gates discovered (& backed) a battery startup

Mar. 14, 2012 - 12:00 AM PDT Mar. 14, 2012 - 12:00 AM PDT

Investors and entrepreneurs don’t always connect via the standard VC pitch. According to Phil Giudice, the CEO of a battery startup called Liquid Metal Battery, his company found their most high profile investor, Bill Gates, through a more unusual way: the classroom. Read more »

Bill Gates Backs Liquid Metal Battery

By Katie Fehrenbacher

May. 20, 2011 - 7:45 AM PDT May. 20, 2011 - 7:45 AM PDT

A buzzy startup working on a battery that sandwiches molten salt between two layers of liquid metal, has gotten seed funding from Bill Gates. The company is called Liquid Metal Battery, and it’s the brainchild of MIT Professor Donald Sadoway. Read more »

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