Articles about pivotal ventures

Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures awards $250M to women’s health organizations worldwide

Melinda French Gates today announced the recipients of her $250 million open call for organizations worldwide addressing women’s physical and mental health. Read More

Melinda French Gates launches $250M open-call funding opportunity for women’s health

Melinda French Gates on Wednesday launched Action for Women’s Health, a $250 million open call that aims to reach organizations… Read More

Melinda French Gates announces plans for $1B in funding for reproductive and other women’s issues

Melinda French Gates announced on Tuesday that she is planning to grant $1 billion over the next two years to… Read More

‘She’s going to be a bigger deal’: What’s next for Melinda French Gates

Melinda French Gates is walking away from a 2,000-employee philanthropy with assets totaling more than $75 billion. But some say… Read More

Who is Melinda French Gates? Pivotal Ventures founder presents answers for ‘Jeopardy’ category

Melinda French Gates played a pivotal role on “Jeopardy” on Monday night, serving as the answer reader for a Double… Read More

Melinda French Gates shares new data to stoke innovation and awareness in $648B ‘care economy’

Caregivers who provide for children, elderly people, and those who are sick or disabled are operating in an antiquated system… Read More

Melinda French Gates on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘evil personified,’ her passion for philanthropy, and potential dating

In the first interview addressing her divorce, Melinda French Gates shared details of the unraveling of her 27-year marriage to… Read More

Melinda French Gates shares details of divorce, what’s ahead for her in upcoming TV interview

Ten months after announcing her divorce, Melinda French Gates is publicly sharing details of her split with Microsoft co-founder Bill… Read More

How Melinda French Gates has ‘transformational potential’ to boost equality in VC, tech and beyond

Melinda French Gates created Pivotal Ventures in January 2015 with so little fanfare that news of the effort came out after… Read More

Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Techstars unveil cohort for ‘Future of Longevity’ Accelerator

A group of ten startups will spend the next 13 weeks coming up with innovative caregiving solutions for aging adults.… Read More

Equity initiative formed by Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Scott lands $10M more in funding

The Equality Can’t Wait Challenge announced $10 million in new funding Tuesday, bringing the total grant package to $40 million.… Read More

Melinda Gates spotlights COVID-19’s disproportionate harm to women

Melinda Gates, an advocate for women’s rights internationally, wrote an article published online Wednesday in Foreign Affairs magazine about the… Read More

Microsoft and Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures unveil winners of Female Founders Competition

Four women-led startups will receive a total of $6 million to scale their innovations from Microsoft’s venture capital arm, Mayfield,… Read More

Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Bezos unveil $30M gender equality initiative

Two of the world’s wealthiest women are teaming up to roll out a $30 million initiative that will provide grants… Read More

Microsoft’s venture fund teams up with Melinda Gates for $6M Female Founders Competition

Microsoft’s venture arm M12 is launching another Female Founders Competition, this time with some help from Melinda Gates and Silicon… Read More

Melinda Gates launches new online platform to highlight inspiring stories, innovative thinkers

Melinda Gates this week launched Evoke, a new website that bills itself as a “community of optimistis” and aims to… Read More

Melinda Gates rallies top tech companies to double women of color studying computer science by 2025

Melinda Gates is convening leading tech companies in an effort to dramatically increase the number of computer science degrees awarded… Read More