When someone says "startup investor", the first name you think of probably isn't the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — but the nonprofit regularly invests in companies it believes could have a positive impact on world health.

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July 14, 2023
‘One of the most peculiar investors’: Inside Aphea.Bio’s raise with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
On the podcast this week, Isabel Vercauteren, CEO and cofounder of Aphea.Bio, takes us through its technology — and why one of the world’s wealthiest charities is interested
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