OneLoad facilitates financial services for small merchants in Pakistan through its micro-retailer digitisation and payment platform. The foundation invested in OneLoad to scale its interoperable airtime and cash-in, cash-out services among low-income retailers and consumers. Press Release
Program Areas: Global Growth & Opportunity
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in OneLoad, a Pakistani tech firm that facilitates small shops through its micro-retailer digitisation and payment platform
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in a Pakistani tech firm that facilitates small shops through its micro-retailer digitisation and payment platform…OneLoad is one of the largest mass market financial access platforms in the country that enable its Read More
Avanti Finance
Avanti Finance Private Limited is a Non-Banking Financial Company and financial technology platform in India focused on enabling financial inclusion and sustainable livelihoods through improved access to affordable, livelihoods-purpose credit for unbanked and low-income populations across the country. The foundation Read More
Provivi
The foundation invested in Provivi to support the development and delivery of next generation crop protection products to address pests of relevance for small-scale producers in low-income geographies.
Press Release: AgBiome Awarded Phase II Grant to Combat Major Pest of African Subsistence Crops
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., September 12, 2019 — AgBiome, Inc., a leader in harnessing the plant microbiome, has received Phase II grant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue the discovery of microbes that target sweetpotato weevils Read More
PR Newswire: The Global Health Investment Fund and Medicines Development for Global Health Announce the Sale of Priority Review Voucher
May 07, 2019 NEW YORK and MELBOURNE, Australia, May 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF) and Medicines Development for Global Health (MDGH) today announced the sale of MDGH’s Priority Review Voucher (PRV). The PRV was awarded to MDGH in June 2018 by the U.S. Food & Drug Read More
Hester Biosciences Africa Limited
Hester Biosciences Africa Limited (“Hester Africa”), a newly-formed Tanzanian company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hester Biosciences Limited (“Hester”), is building an animal vaccine manufacturing facility near Dar es Salaam. Hester has a 20-year track record manufacturing and distributing livestock Read More
CropIn Technology
CropIn is a Bangalore-based company developing software-as-a-service for agriculture enterprises to drive efficiency in farming operations. The primary use-case is for agriculture businesses (food processors, contract farming companies) whose field agents use CropIn’s SmartFarm mobile app to periodically track farm Read More
The Economic Times: Stellapps bags $14 million in a round led by Gates Foundation, others
By Shashwati Shankar May 31, 2018 BENGALURU: Omnivore-backed agritech startup Stellapps Technologies has raised $14 million in one of the largest equity funding rounds led by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and IndusAge Partners, among others. Bengaluru based Stellapps Technologies, Read More
Press Release: IndusAge, ABB, Gates Foundation invest in Bengaluru-based Stellapps
June 1, 2018 Bengaluru: Bengaluru-based Stellapps Technologies has received Series B investment round of $14 million led by IndusAge Partners and included new investors Qualcomm Ventures, ABB, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ABB has invested through its venture capital Read More