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Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund — Seed & Series A VC Firm

VC
Seattle, WAWebsite

Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund is a Seed, Series A, Series B venture capital firm based in Seattle, WA investing in Healthcare. The firm has 4 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
4 companies on record
Partners
10 listed
Stage
Seed, Series A, Series B
Sectors
Healthcare
HQ
Seattle, WA
Check size
Not in our records
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-11-07

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Series A, Series B

Portfolio

4+ companies

Team

10 partners

Investment Thesis

Venture investment fund for global health and life sciences, including investments tied to sickle cell disease and other global-health priorities. Uses strategic capital to advance innovations with health impact.

How Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund invests

Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund is a vc firm based in Seattle, WA. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B stages, with a focus on Healthcare.

Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund has backed 4 companies in our records, including Amyris, Biological E, BioNTech.

Partners & Team

KS

Katie Sharp

Program Officer, Strategic Planning

SI

Strategic Investment Fund team

GP

Sickle Cell Disease
Global Health
PS

Patty Stonesifer

CEO

AZ

Anita Zaidi

President, Gender Equality

MS

Mark Suzman

Chief Executive Officer

DR

David Rossow

Partner

HM

Hari Menon

Regional Director

NG

Nicole Golden

Director, Foundation Strategy Office

PM

Patrick Methvin

President

PG

Pierre Grand

Head of Partnerships

Industry Focus

Invests In

Healthcare

Portfolio Companies (4)

Other

AM

Amyris

life sciences·not stated on the page·Strategic Investment Fund

Develops low-cost technologies to manufacture compounds used in semi-synthetic artemisinin for anti-malaria treatments

BI

Biological E

life sciences·not stated on the page·Strategic Investment Fund

Pharmaceutical company working to reduce the cost of vaccine production

BI

BioNTech

life sciences·Series C·Strategic Investment Fund

Biotech company developing therapeutics for cancer and serious diseases

AF

Affinivax

life sciences·Series A·Strategic Investment Fund

Develops next-generation pneumococcal vaccines with streamlined vaccine design

How to pitch Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund
  • •Raising at Seed, Series A, Series B? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Katie Sharp, Program Officer, Strategic Planning.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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