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Ann Winblad Net Worth & Wiki: How Rich is Ann Winblad Actually?

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May 7, 2021

Ann Winblad is an American entrepreneur, who co-founded the venture capital firm, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She is currently in the limelight since Melinda Gates allowed her ex-husband, Bill to meet Ann, who is his ex-girlfriend in one weekend a year. As of 2022, Ann Winblad net worth is estimated to be roughly $15 million.

Ann is best known as one of the first female programmers, who had a big role in engineering and developing Silicon Valley.

Full Name	Ann Winblad
Birth Date	November 1, 1950
Birth Place	Red Wing, Minnesota, U. S.
Profession	Entrepreneur
Husband	Edward Alex Klein
Net Worth	$15 million

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Early life

Ann Winblad was born on the 1st of November, 1950 in Red Wing, Minnesota, United States. She was born to parents, Wilbur and Elizabeth Stuark. Ann spent his childhood growing up with 5 siblings in Rushford and Farmington. Regarding her education, she has studied at St. Catherine University, where she majored in Business Administration. Later, she joined the University of St. Thomas, where she majored in Education.

Ann Winblad Net Worth & Career

After receiving a master’s degree, she started working at the Federal Reserve. There, she served for 13 months and quit the job to start an accounting software company, Open Systems Inc. She founded the company along with 3 other workers who served at Federal Reserve.

Ann dedicated six years working at the accounting company, before selling it to the huge amount of $15 million. Ann started working as a tech consultant for IBM and Microsoft. She started her new business venture founding the venture capital firm called Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 1989. She founded the company along with the venture capitalist firm, John Hummer in 1989.

The capital firm was founded after two years, as they were taking time to raise enough funds for the company. After some time, the big companies like IBM and St. Paul Company invested in her capital firm. Ann along with John was successful to launch 16 startups in the firm’s starting years.

Ann Winblad Personal Life

Winblad is the ex-girlfriend of Bill Gates. Their love story started in the 1980s when she had some investment in Microsoft. Ann met Bill Gates for the first time at the computer conference of Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson in 1984. Soon after their first meeting, they fell in love and dated for few years. However, the couple wasn’t able to take their relationship for long, and they separated after few years of dating.

Though Ann separated from Bill, they still remained friends and often take their time off to meet once in a year recalling their old memories. The agreement was recently revealed, when Bill called off his 27 years of marriage with soon to be ex-wife, Melinda.

Bill and Ann actually have kept their one vacation tradition alive since their dating years. They would spend long weekend time at Ann’s beach cottage located on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Ann is a married woman, who tied the knot with a private investigator, Edward Alex Kline. Ann and Edward shared the wedding vow six years back in 2015. The famous actor, Kevin Kline is his older brother.