Gates Ventures (known as bgC3 until 2018) is the personal service company of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. Founded in 2008, it comprises his 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 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.
History[]
The original name of the company, bgC3, was an acronym for Bill Gates Catalyst 3, with the number three indicating a third endeavor for Bill Gates beyond Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It was originally established as Carillon Holdings in March 2008 and then renamed to bgC3 in July, ten days after Gates retired from day-to-day work at Microsoft.[1]
A placeholder website with only a logo was established in October 2008;[2] it began redirecting to gatesnotes.com in 2015.[3]
References[]
- ↑ Bill Gates Starts Mysterious New Company Just In Time For Halloween by Caroline Waxler, Business Insider. 2008-10-22.
- ↑ bgC3. Archived 2008-10-24.
- ↑ Got an HTTP 301 response at crawl time | Redirecting to... Archived 2015-02-10.
External links[]
- bgC3 welcome page (archived 2014-12-19)
- Gates Notes (a.k.a. bgC3) at Crunchbase
- bgC3 at Wikipedia