Gates Ventures

{{Short description|Personal service company of Bill Gates}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Use American English|date=May 2024}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Gates Ventures

| logo =

| logo_size =

| type =

| genre =

| foundation = {{start date and age|2008}}

| founder = Bill Gates

| location_city = Kirkland, Washington

| location_country = US

| location =

| locations =

| area_served =

| key_people = {{ubl|Larry Cohen
(Managing partner)|Niranjan Bose
(Managing director)}}

| industry = Personal services

| products =

| services =

| market cap =

| revenue =

| operating_income =

| net_income =

| assets =

| equity =

| owner =

| num_employees =

| parent =

| divisions =

| subsid =

| homepage = {{URL|https://www.gatesnotes.com/}}

| footnotes = Formerly Carillon Holdings{{cite web |url=http://bink.nu/news/bill-gates-mysterious-new-company.aspx |title=Bill Gates' mysterious new company |publisher=Bink.nu |date= |accessdate=2011-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512054916/http://bink.nu/news/bill-gates-mysterious-new-company.aspx |archive-date=2011-05-12 |url-status=dead }} and bgC3{{cite news|last=Day|first=Matt|title=Gates firm said to be building new hangar at Boeing Field|work=The Seattle Times|date=September 9, 2016|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/gates-firm-said-to-be-building-new-hangar-at-boeing-field/|access-date=2022-11-22}}

| intl =

}}

{{Bill Gates series}}

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. 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.{{cite news|last1=Kulish|first1=Nicholas|last2=Ruiz|first2=Rebecca R.|last3=Gelles|first3=David|title=The Separate Worlds of Bill and Melinda Gates|work=The New York Times|date=October 18, 2021|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-foundation.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-11-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221123022946/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-foundation.html |archive-date= Nov 23, 2022 }}

Gates Ventures is located at Kirkland, Washington, in the same complex with Cascade and Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures.{{Cite news |last=Das |first=Anupreeta |author-link1=Anupreeta Das|last2=Flitter |first2=Emily |last3=Kulish |first3=Nicholas |date=2021-05-26 |title=A Culture of Fear at the Firm That Manages Bill Gates’s Fortune |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/business/bill-gates-cascade-michael-larson.html |access-date=2022-12-28 |issn=0362-4331 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228000746/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/business/bill-gates-cascade-michael-larson.html |archive-date= 2022-12-28}} Niranjan Bose is currently Gates Ventures' managing director.{{Cite web |last=Dolan |first=Kerry A. |title=Bill Gates Is Reupping His Commitment To Alzheimer’s Research And Detection |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2022/07/30/bill-gates-is-reupping-his-commitment-to-alzheimers-research-and-detection/ |url-access=subscription |date=Jul 30, 2022 |access-date=2022-12-28 |website=Forbes |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url= 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 |archive-date= 2022-12-28}}{{Cite web |title=Exemplars in Global Health: Q&A with Dr. Niranjan Bose |url=https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/exemplars-global-health-niranjan-bose |date=Jun 25, 2020 |access-date=2022-12-28 |website=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |language=en}}