for impact
We are the impact-first strategic investment arm of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
We align innovation
We back game-changing developments across our focus domains — whether life sciences, healthcare delivery, agriculture and nutrition, or financial services — to improve lives.
We scale impact
We shape and scale breakthrough business models and technology innovations to accelerate sustainable impact.
We catalyze markets
We overcome market obstacles with financial tools like volume guarantees, structured financing, debt, and venture capital to activate solutions where impact is most needed.
At a glance
Featured companies
70M+
Mobile money customers
3.5M+
Credit scores generated, unlocking US$2B+ credit for women
300M+
Sanofi inactivated polio vaccine doses delivered to Gavi countries
4M
Life-saving food courses delivered through creative financing
Impact stories
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Developing monoclonal antibodies for global health
Theoretically, monoclonal antibodies hold huge potential for safe and highly effective new global health products. Our investment attempted to turn theory into product within this emerging class of drugs.
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Digitizing payments in a cash economy
When a mobile payments platform in Bangladesh achieved product-market-fit, our investment helped it scale in low-income, rural areas.
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Financing small agribusinesses in Africa
Working capital is critical for the small and growing agribusinesses/cooperatives that facilitate smallholder farmers’ access to markets.