Innovative Ideas, Exceptional People, Great Companies
Idealab Studio provides business development support to its companies and leverages its experience with founding, supporting and investing in startups to help them grow into successful businesses.
Areas of Focus / Product Development
AI / Robotics
Consumer / Commerce
Enterprise
Clean Energy / Environment
Our Current Companies
Bill Gross
Founder and CEO
Bill Gross founded Idealab Studio in 2018. Bill is a lifelong entrepreneur: he started his first solar business in high school, then invented and sold high-end speakers in college, followed by a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3, then an educational software company called Knowledge Adventure and then CitySearch. Bill founded Idealab, the longest-running start-up technology incubator, in 1996. Among Bill’s transformative innovations is the invention of the “paid click”, or CPC (cost-per-click) model with the company GoTo.com/Overture, which he founded, and which today powers most of the monetization of the internet. Bill’s newest efforts in renewable energy include Heliogen, a company whose breakthrough technology will meaningfully contribute to the world’s efforts to minimize reliance on fossil fuels, and Energy Vault, a company that has developed a breakthrough in low-cost energy storage. Bill serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and the Art Center College of Design. Bill received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech.
Team
Board of Directors
