Gates Ventures Explained

Gates Ventures
Founder:Bill Gates
Location City:Kirkland, Washington
Location Country:US
Industry:Personal services
Footnotes:Formerly Carillon Holdings[1] and bgC3[2]

Gates Ventures is the personal service company of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Known until 2018 as bgC3, it comprises his personal staff, a think tank on problems of health and global development, and a technology investment portfolio.[2] The firm is distinct from Cascade Investment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation although Gates uses it to support the Foundation's projects. Areas of research and investment include climate change, clean energy and Alzheimer's disease.[3]

Gates Ventures is located at Kirkland, Washington, in the same complex with Cascade and Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures.[4] Niranjan Bose is currently Gates Ventures' managing director.[5] [6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bill Gates' mysterious new company . Bink.nu . 2011-05-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110512054916/http://bink.nu/news/bill-gates-mysterious-new-company.aspx . 2011-05-12 . dead .
  2. News: Day. Matt. Gates firm said to be building new hangar at Boeing Field. The Seattle Times. September 9, 2016. 2022-11-22.
  3. News: Kulish. Nicholas. Ruiz. Rebecca R.. Gelles. David. The Separate Worlds of Bill and Melinda Gates. The New York Times. October 18, 2021. subscription . 2022-11-22 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221123022946/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-foundation.html . Nov 23, 2022 .
  4. News: Das . Anupreeta . Anupreeta Das. Flitter . Emily . Kulish . Nicholas . 2021-05-26 . A Culture of Fear at the Firm That Manages Bill Gates’s Fortune . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-12-28 . 0362-4331 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20221228000746/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/business/bill-gates-cascade-michael-larson.html . 2022-12-28.
  5. Web site: Dolan . Kerry A. . Bill Gates Is Reupping His Commitment To Alzheimer’s Research And Detection . subscription . Jul 30, 2022 . 2022-12-28 . Forbes . en . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221228000748/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2022/07/30/bill-gates-is-reupping-his-commitment-to-alzheimers-research-and-detection/?sh=54bea2696a83 . 2022-12-28.
  6. Web site: Exemplars in Global Health: Q&A with Dr. Niranjan Bose . Jun 25, 2020 . 2022-12-28 . Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . en.

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