Melinda French Gates played a pivotal role on “Jeopardy” on Monday night, serving as the answer reader for a Double Jeopardy category titled “Pivotal Women.” The category was a nod… Read More
Caregivers who provide for children, elderly people, and those who are sick or disabled are operating in an antiquated system that’s ripe for innovation, experts say, and worth an estimated… Read More
In the first interview addressing her divorce, Melinda French Gates shared details of the unraveling of her 27-year marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. “It wasn’t one moment or one… Read More
Ten months after announcing her divorce, Melinda French Gates is publicly sharing details of her split with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and where she’s headed now. The couple was married… Read More
Melinda French Gates created Pivotal Ventures in January 2015 with so little fanfare that news of the effort came out after GeekWire accidentally stumbled upon its website. At the time, a… Read More
A group of ten startups will spend the next 13 weeks coming up with innovative caregiving solutions for aging adults. Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures and Techstars unveiled the first cohort… Read More
The Equality Can’t Wait Challenge announced $10 million in new funding Tuesday, bringing the total grant package to $40 million. The gender equity initiative backed by Melinda Gates and MacKenzie… Read More
Melinda Gates, an advocate for women’s rights internationally, wrote an article published online Wednesday in Foreign Affairs magazine about the COVID-19 pandemic’s outsized harm to women. In “The Pandemic’s Toll… Read More
Four women-led startups will receive a total of $6 million to scale their innovations from Microsoft’s venture capital arm, Mayfield, and Pivotal Ventures, an organization founded by Melinda Gates. The… Read More
Two of the world’s wealthiest women are teaming up to roll out a $30 million initiative that will provide grants to organizations with “transformational” ideas for improving gender equality. The… Read More
Microsoft’s venture arm M12 is launching another Female Founders Competition, this time with some help from Melinda Gates and Silicon Valley venture capital fund Mayfield. The competition will award $6… Read More
Melinda Gates this week launched Evoke, a new website that bills itself as a “community of optimistis” and aims to highlight inspiring stories of people and projects. Gates, with help… Read More
Melinda Gates is convening leading tech companies in an effort to dramatically increase the number of computer science degrees awarded to women of color, part of a broader effort to… Read More