Bill Gates
People
Ashish Dhawan joins Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on its board of trustees
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Thursday announced that it has appointed Ashish Dhawan, founder and chief executive officer of ......
TMT
Satya Nadella invests in Tiger Global-backed fintech unicorn Groww
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corp., has joined Indian fintech unicorn Groww as a new investor and advisor. ......
Infrastructure
Energy storage firm Ambri raises funding from Reliance, Bill Gates, others
Ambri Inc on Tuesday announced that it has secured a financing round of $144 million from Reliance New Energy Solar ......
Infrastructure
Reliance to invest in Bill Gates' climate change firm Breakthrough Energy
Reliance Industries Ltd has decided to invest $50 million (about Rs 373 crore at current exchange rates) in a US-based ......
Finance
Social impact firm Unitus marks first close of second fund
Social impact investment firm Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund) on Monday said it has marked the first close of ......
TMT
Nilekanis sign Giving Pledge, donate half their wealth to charity
Infosys co-founder and tech billionaire Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini Nilekani have joined The Giving Pledge, an elite network ......
Healthcare
Bill Gates commits $100 mn for VC fund, startups to fight Alzheimer's
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that ......
General
Here's how obscenely wealthy the world's eight richest men are
Just how wealthy are the world’s richest people?Obscenely rich, if a new report by Oxfam, an international confederation of charitable ......
Infrastructure
Vinod Khosla, Bill Gates & others commit $1 bn to global cleantech fund
A group of billionaires including Indian origin American venture capitalist Vinod Khosla besides Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and ......
Healthcare
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative commits $3 billion to fighting diseases
Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and wife Dr Priscilla Chan have pledged to invest more than $3 billion ......