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 Gates Foundation although Gates uses it to support the Foundation's projects. Areas of research and investment include climate change, sustainable 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]
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- Matt Day. Gates firm said to be building new hangar at Boeing Field The Seattle Times, September 9, 2016, retrieved 2022-11-22^
- Nicholas Kulish, Rebecca R. Ruiz, David Gelles. The Separate Worlds of Bill and Melinda Gates The New York Times, October 18, 2021, retrieved 2022-11-22^
- Anupreeta Das. A Culture of Fear at the Firm That Manages Bill Gates’s Fortune The New York Times, 2021-05-26, retrieved 2022-12-28^
- Kerry A. Dolan. Bill Gates Is Reupping His Commitment To Alzheimer’s Research And Detection Forbes, Jul 30, 2022, retrieved 2022-12-28^
- Exemplars in Global Health: Q&A with Dr. Niranjan Bose Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jun 25, 2020, retrieved 2022-12-28^