Billionaire Bill Gates together with several investment funds invested 35 million dollars in a social network for scientists ResearchGate.

This writes the "Prime" referring to the Financial Times.

According to the FT, social network ResearchGate, founded in 2008, is similar to the popular online Facebok and designed to combine academics and researchers from around the world.

According to the founder of the social network Iyada Madisha, he wanted to create a platform for communication scholars, where they could discuss their experiments, errors and so on.

The exact amount you put Bill Gates is not called. In the round of investment funds was also attended by Tenaya Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, Benchmark and Founders Fund.

In social networks ResearchGate registered about 2.9 million people, a third of them come to the site every day. In the world there are other similar projects - for example, LabRoots and Epernicus, writes the FT.

According to the magazine Forbes, Gates is located on the second place in the ranking of billionaires with a fortune of 67 billion dollars.

Source: http://www.epravda.com.ua/news/2013/06/6/378499/