Melinda Gates has been putting her money where her mouth is when it comes to championing women in tech.
She's become a power-player investor through her somewhat secretive investment firm Pivotal Ventures. But she's not just investing directly into startups, like a classic venture investor. She's also become a limited partner (LP), investing in other VC funds with a strategy that has far bigger implications, she told Fortune's Polina Marinova.
Image: DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 28JAN11 - William H. Gates III (FLTR), Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, and Melinda French Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, and David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, are captured during the session 'Polio: Eradicating an Old Reality Once and for All' at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 28, 2011. Copyright by World Economic Forum swiss-image.ch/Photo by Remy Steinegger
