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Melinda French Gates redefines what a 'smart bet' in VC looks like

To advance more female founders and fund managers, Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures is turning to new markers of success and potential.

Melinda French Gates: 'It’s time to change the face of power in venture capital'

Melinda French Gates: 'It’s time to change the face of power in venture capital'

By investing in women-led funds and early-stage companies, Pivotal wants to help transform the way that the venture capital industry looks at women.

Young people in Northern Ireland support desegregation but many plan on leaving for life elsewhere

Young people in Northern Ireland support desegregation but many plan on leaving for life elsewhere

The report also found the influence of paramilitary gangs is a feature of many young people's lives

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Efforts tackling segregation and deprivation in Northern Ireland risk being lost, report warns

Multiple reconciliation schemes involving significant spending have not brought major change, the think tank said

White male workers silently feel excluded—here's how to fix that

The justified push for gender parity in the workplace may actually be contributing to resentful feelings among male staff.

Westminster should consider making more NI decisions in Stormont's absence, study says

Northern Ireland is being governed on a "limited and piecemeal basis" since the collapse of power-sharing, a think tank warned

LSL Property Services streamlines group with sale of new build firms to joint venture

Group First Limited and RSC New Homes Limited are being sold to the newly established Pivotal Growth Limited

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Pivotal buys Danske Bank UK's Northern Ireland non-bank ATM network

Pivotal buys Danske Bank UK's Northern Ireland non-bank ATM network

The deal sees 107 ATMs come under Pivotal's control while Danske Bank will retain ownership of its 85-strong branch ATMs

Birmingham Post

Stormont caretaker ministers' limited decisions 'opaque' without Assembly, report says

Stormont caretaker ministers' limited decisions 'opaque' without Assembly, report says

The report warned the continuing absence of a power-sharing Executive is "not healthy for any democratic state"

More than £130m in public money handed to housing providers named and shamed by regulator

More than £130m in public money handed to housing providers named and shamed by regulator

Investigation: Simon Murphy and May Bulman uncover huge sums in housing benefit for vulnerable people paid to firms whose bosses are cashing in through a loophole in regulation

The Independent UK

Pivotal director warns other 'big builders' face collapse as 'gouging' pushes construction industry to edge

Pivotal director warns other 'big builders' face collapse as 'gouging' pushes construction industry to edge

The director of Pivotal has called out price gouging and says other "big builders" will collapse unless the industry-wide problems crippling constructions firms are addressed.

Pivotal Homes put into liquidation, says operations unviable amid building industry pressures

Pivotal Homes put into liquidation, says operations unviable amid building industry pressures

The managing director of Pivotal Homes says employees and contractors have been paid in full, but that operations are unviable due to a set of circumstances he has never seen in the industry.

Melinda French Gates will no longer pledge bulk of wealth to Gates Foundation

Melinda French Gates will no longer pledge bulk of wealth to Gates Foundation

Philanthropist has pledged to give $bn to her new organisation, Pivotal Ventures

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