{"id":147335,"date":"2016-12-12T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=147335"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:48:33","slug":"sa-billionaire-invests-in-1-billion-energy-fund-launched-by-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/147335\/sa-billionaire-invests-in-1-billion-energy-fund-launched-by-bill-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"SA billionaire invests in $1-billion energy fund launched by Bill Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates has launched\u00a0a new $1-billion fund as part of the\u00a0Breakthrough Energy Coalition, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/12\/11\/bill-gates-john-doerr-venture-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fortune reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The fund, called\u00a0Breakthrough Energy Ventures Fund, includes several billionaires who have put money forward to develop next-generation clean energy technology.<\/p>\n<p>Among the fund\u2019s 20 investors are\u00a0Alibaba head\u00a0Jack Ma, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Virgin\u2019s Richard Branson, and\u00a0South African mining billionaire\u00a0Patrice Motsepe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honoured to work with these investors to build on the powerful foundation of public investment in basic research,\u201d said Gates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to build companies that will help deliver the next generation of reliable, affordable, and emissions-free energy to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/120399\/sa-billionaire-launches-r10-billion-investment-firm\/\" target=\"_blank\">SA billionaire launches R10 billion investment firm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates has launched a new $1-billion fund as part of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, Fortune reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":17281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-147335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147341,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147335\/revisions\/147341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}