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. Fortune · Nov 14, 2023
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. Fortune · Nov 13, 2023
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 Belfast Live · Jun 19, 2023
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 Belfast Live · May 24, 2023
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. Fortune · Feb 22, 2023
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 Belfast Live · Feb 7, 2023
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 Birmingham Post · Jan 13, 2023
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 · Sep 23, 2022
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" Belfast Live · Sep 1, 2022
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 · Jun 29, 2022
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. ABC News · May 27, 2022
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. ABC News · May 26, 2022
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 The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2022