Melinda Gates is no stranger to investing. Having run one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the world for the last 18+ years, Gates has spearheaded thousands of investments to support initiatives in education, world health and population, and community. A major focus for Gates in recent years has been equality in tech, and this focus was recently taken to the next level with her first ever personal investment in a private startup company. According to Inc., Gates has invested $200,000 in Alice, an artificial intelligence startup that connects female and underrepresented founders in real time with mentors, resources, and events that help scale their businesses.

The aim of Alice is to “aggregate the entire ecosystem of opportunity, put it in a single place, and then parse it out so you’re only seeing what is relevant to you.” What this means is that the company is leveraging big data and machine learning to predict users’ needs and curate hyper-targeted content as Alice populates and users engage. The platform currently pulls data from education partners like the Kauffman Foundation and the Small Business Administration.

Gates’ investment comes via her Pivotal Ventures organization, an independent executive office designed to allow Gates to pursue projects and potential investments separate from the Gates Foundation. “We can decide that structural inequity in tech ends with us–and that every technologist who is willing to contribute their talents and brainpower to our collective future should have the chance,” says Gates, referring to her investment in Alice.

Alice co-founders Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz have a strong track record building solutions for underrepresented groups in tech. Gore is the former entrepreneur-in-residence at Dell while Rodz had previously launched a women-focused business accelerator called Circular Board. Although the startup is only a year old, the founders have already made significant strides towards releasing their AI platform, and have identified key areas they need to address to see their vision become reality. Gore told Inc. that working with policymakers will be an important step for the platform:

“We really believe that we need to insert ourselves with policymakers. It’s massively exciting and a big opportunity, but we have to put the new ecosystem in place for the new entrepreneur, and we want Alice to be that bridge.”

Alice’s AI platform is slated for initial release in the second half of the year, and while training such a system is no easy task and there is certainly much work yet to do, the founders have found time to celebrate their latest win.

Gates’ capital injection in Alice is structured as an impact investment that doesn’t need to be repaid, and time will tell whether Gates’ plans to build off this initial investment to further expand Pivotal Venture’s portfolio.