{"id":55626,"date":"2016-12-12T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55626"},"modified":"2016-12-14T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T06:15:13","slug":"bill-gates-launches-1-billion-breakthrough-energy-investment-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2016\/bill-gates-launches-1-billion-breakthrough-energy-investment-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Launches $1 Billion Breakthrough Energy Investment Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Forbes) Billionaire philanthropist and investor Bill Gates is launching a $1 billion fund, called Breakthrough Energy Ventures, to invest in new forms of clean energy. Gates has gathered a group of like-minded investors, including Silicon Valley venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla and former hedge manager John Arnold, to join him in the fund.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his Gates Notes blog, Gates said the fund will invest in \u201cscientific breakthroughs that have the potential to deliver cheap and reliable clean energy to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kerryadolan\/2016\/12\/12\/bill-gates-launches-1-billion-breakthrough-energy-investment-fund\/#572d8f7759a7\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Forbes) Billionaire philanthropist and investor Bill Gates is launching a $1 billion fund, called Breakthrough Energy Ventures, to invest in new forms of clean energy. Gates has gathered a group of like-minded investors, including Silicon Valley venture capitalists John Doerr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55627,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55626\/revisions\/55627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}