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Bioventures Investors Medtech Growth Capital
BioVentures Investors Medtech Growth Capital is a Delaware limited partnership formed in 2020, based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, that invests $10 to $25 million per medtech company past regulatory risk.
Biovitrum
Biovitrum AB is a Swedish biopharmaceutical company spun out of Pharmacia in 2001 and headquartered in Stockholm; since a 2010 merger it has been Swedish Orphan Biovitrum, or Sobi.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, McCain–Feingold, Public Law 107-155) amended FECA to ban national-party soft money, regulate electioneering communications, and raise hard-money limits; key parts were later struck down in Citizens United (2010).
Bipartisanship
Bipartisanship is cooperation between opposing political parties used mainly in two-party systems like the United States. It serves as both a practical necessity and a rhetorical standard.
Biphobia
Biphobia is prejudice and discrimination against bisexual people, also called binegativity; related to monosexism and bi-erasure, it comes from both straight and gay/lesbian communities and is linked to bisexual mental health disparities.
Bipin Chandra Pal (বিপিন চন্দ্র পাল)
Bipin Chandra Pal (বিপিন চন্দ্র পাল, 1858–1932), Bengali nationalist, journalist and theorist, the Pal of Lal–Bal–Pal; founded Bande Mataram (1906), led Swadeshi agitation, championed composite nationality, jailed 1907, opposed Gandhi's non-cooperation.
Bipin Rawat (बिपिन रावत)
Bipin Rawat (बिपिन रावत), 1958–2021, Indian Army four-star general and India's first Chief of Defence Staff from December 2019; earlier Chief of Army Staff; championed theaterisation; died in a Mi-17 V5 crash near Coonoor, Tamil Nadu.
Bipin Shah
Bipin Shah is a Silicon Valley semiconductor and software entrepreneur, one of eight cofounders of TiE in 1992 and CEO of Kovair Software from 2006 to 2023.
Biplab Kumar Deb (বিপ্লব কুমার দেব)
Biplab Kumar Deb (বিপ্লব কুমার দেব), born 1971 in Udaipur, Tripura, is a BJP politician, Chief Minister of Tripura 2018-2022, Rajya Sabha member 2022-2024, and now Lok Sabha MP from Tripura West.
Biproportional apportionment
Biproportional apportionment, or double proportionality: seat allocation proportional to votes on two dimensions at once, via Balinski-Demange divisor methods and the Fair-Share matrix; first used in Zurich's 2006 election, contrasted with Italy's shifting-seat defect.
Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya
Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya (বীরবিক্রম কিশোর মাণিক্য) was the last ruling Maharaja of Tripura, reigning 1923 to 1947 and known as the architect of modern Tripura.
Bir Chandra Manikya
Bir Chandra Manikya (বীরচন্দ্র মাণিক্য) was Maharaja of Tripura, a princely state in northeastern India, from 1862 to 1896, remembered as the father of modern Tripura for his administrative reforms.
Bir Singh Deo
Bir Singh Deo (बीर सिंह देव) was a Bundela Rajput ruler of Orchha from 1605 to 1627, who gained the throne by assassinating Abu'l Fazl for Jahangir.
Bira91
Bira91 is an Indian craft beer brand owned by B9 Beverages, founded by Ankur Jain in New Delhi in 2015, which raised over $200 million before halting production in 2025.
Birbal (बीरबल)
Birbal (बीरबल), born Maheshdas c. 1528, was a Brahman courtier, poet (Kavi Ray 1573), and 2,000-strong mansabdar in Akbar's court, one of the Navratnas; he died February 1586 in the Yusufzai ambush at the Malandari Pass with 8,000 men. The famous Akbar-Birbal jokes are largely fictional, first printed in 1888.
Birbhaṇ
Birbhaṇ (बीरभान) is the figure one tradition credits with founding the Sadh, or Satnami Sadh, sect at Narnaul, Haryana, most accounts dating this to 1657.
Birch Bayh
Birch Bayh (Birch Evans Bayh Jr., 1928-2019), Democratic U.S. senator from Indiana 1963-1981, author of the 25th and 26th Amendments, Title IX, and the Bayh-Dole Act; defeated by Dan Quayle in 1980.
Birch Hill Equity Partners
Birch Hill Equity Partners is a Toronto-based Canadian mid-market private equity firm making control investments of $75 million to $3 billion, with over $6 billion under management.
Birching
Birching, corporal punishment with a birch rod or bundle of birch twigs, used in British civil courts, Royal Navy discipline, schools, and the Isle of Man until its 1978 condemnation by the European Court of Human Rights and final abolition.
Bird-in-the-hand theory
The bird-in-the-hand theory, attributed to Myron J. Gordon's work of 1956 to 1963, holds that investors value certain dividends over uncertain capital gains, so higher payouts raise share prices.
Birds Aren't Real
Birds Aren't Real is a satirical conspiracy movement founded by Peter McIndoe in 2017, claiming US birds were replaced by government surveillance drones; confirmed parody, extensive merch, media coverage.
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a feather: English idiom and proverb ("birds of a feather flock together") meaning similar people group together; earliest English version 1545 (William Turner), modern wording 1599 (Minsheu), often disapproving in use.
Biren Technology (壁仞科技（Biren Technology）)
Biren Technology (壁仞科技) is a Shanghai-based fabless general-purpose GPU designer founded in 2019 by former SenseTime president Zhang Wen, listed in Hong Kong since 2026.
Birender Singh Dhanoa
Birender Singh Dhanoa (BS Dhanoa, nickname Tony) is a retired Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal, 25th Chief of the Air Staff (2016–2019), Chairman COSC 2019, Kargil No. 17 Squadron (Golden Arrows) commander, and later a Hero MotoCorp director.
Birendra of Nepal
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal 1972-2001, son of Mahendra; called the 1979 referendum, restored multiparty democracy in 1990, and was killed with Queen Aishwarya in the 1 June 2001 Narayanhity palace massacre by Crown Prince Dipendra.
Birendra Prasad Baishya
Birendra Prasad Baishya is an Indian Asom Gana Parishad politician representing Assam in the Rajya Sabha for 2025 to 2031, after earlier serving in the Lok Sabha.
Birger Magnusson (Swedish jarl)
Birger Magnusson, known as Birger jarl, was a Swedish magnate of the Bjälbo family, jarl of the realm from 1248 and its de facto ruler until his death in 1266.
Birger, King of Sweden
Birger Magnusson (c. 1280–1321), king of Sweden 1290–1318, son of Magnus Ladulås; his feud with dukes Erik and Valdemar led to the Håtuna seizure of 1306 and the Nyköping Banquet of 1317, ending his reign in exile.
Birgili Mehmed Efendi
Birgili Mehmed Efendi (Birgivi Mehmed Efendi, 1523–1573) was an Ottoman jurist, theologian, and Arabic grammarian who taught in Birgi and wrote the influential Vasiyetname catechism.
Birgitta Ed
Birgitta Ed (born 1968), Swedish priest of the Church of Sweden and wife of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson; ordained 2023 in Strängnäs, co-founded Fållöknastiftelsen, and since June 2026 under a cathedral chapter supervisory inquiry.