Jeffrey S. Skoll
Founder @ Capricorn Investment Group
Palo Alto, United States
Jeffrey S. Skoll is a Series A investor at Capricorn Investment Group in Palo Alto focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Jeff Skoll is a philanthropist and social entrepreneur, working to bring life to his vision of a sustainable world of peace and prosperity. As the first full-time employee and President of eBay, Jeff developed the company's inaugural business plan and helped lead its successful initial public offering and the creation of the eBayFoundation. Over the last 15 years, Jeff has created an innovative portfolio of philanthropic and commercial enterprises, each a distinctive social catalyst. Together, these organizations galvanize public will and mobilize critical resources to accelerate large-scale social impact. His approach is unique: driving social impact by investing in a range of efforts that integrate powerful stories and data with entrepreneurial approaches. The Jeff Skoll Group supports his organizations, which include the Skoll Foundation, the Capricorn Investment Group, Participant Media and the Skoll Global Threats Fund. Jeff created the Skoll Foundation in 1999 to pursue his vision of a more peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. The Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world's most pressing problems. Capricorn Investment Group was created in 2000 to demonstrate that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable, positive change. Capricorn manages the assets for Jeff Skoll, the Skoll Foundation and others who strive for extraordinary investment results by leveraging market forces to accelerate impact. Jeff founded Participant Media in 2004 with the belief that a story well told has the power to inspire and accelerate social change. Participant's 50+ films to date have collectively received a total of 7 Academy Awards® and 35 nominations, and include The Help, Contagion, Good Night, and Good Luck, Syriana, An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for "Superman", and Food, Inc. In 2008, Participant launched its digital hub TakePart.com, a leading source of socially relevant news, opinion and entertainment. In August 2013, Participant expanded into television with its new network, Pivot, targeting the millennial audience, available to 45 million U.S. households. For each of its films and TV shows, Participant creates a unique social action campaign designed to give audiences specific actions they can take on the issue illuminated in the project.He founded the Skoll Global Threats Fund in 2009, whose initial focus is on five global issues that, if unchecked, could bring the world to its knees: climate change, water security, pandemics, nuclear proliferation and Middle East conflict. Jeff holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012. Jeff's other recent honors include a career tribute at the Gotham Independent Film Awards (2012) and the John W. Gardner Leadership Award (2012).
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Jeffrey S. Skoll invests in
Stages Jeffrey S. Skoll invests in
Countries Jeffrey S. Skoll invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (24%)
- Financial Services 4 (24%)
- Mobile 3 (18%)
- Banking 3 (18%)
- iOS 2 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (29%)
- Seed 3 (18%)
- Series D 3 (18%)
- Series C 2 (12%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Monumental Sports & Entertainment
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Monumental Sports & Entertainment owns and operates three professional sports teams: the NBA's Washington Wizards, the NHL's Washington Capitals, and the WNBA's Washington Mystics. Monumental, which merged Lincoln Holdings and Washington Sports & Entertainment on June 10, 2010, also owns and operates Verizon Center, thepremier sports and entertainment venue in Washington, D.C. Additionally, the group operates Kettler Capitals Iceplex, the Capitals' state-of-the-art training facility in Arlington, Va., and George Mason University's Patriot Center, located in Fairfax, Va. | Nov 29, 2022 | |
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Monumental Sports & Entertainment
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Monumental Sports & Entertainment owns and operates three professional sports teams: the NBA's Washington Wizards, the NHL's Washington Capitals, and the WNBA's Washington Mystics. Monumental, which merged Lincoln Holdings and Washington Sports & Entertainment on June 10, 2010, also owns and operates Verizon Center, thepremier sports and entertainment venue in Washington, D.C. Additionally, the group operates Kettler Capitals Iceplex, the Capitals' state-of-the-art training facility in Arlington, Va., and George Mason University's Patriot Center, located in Fairfax, Va. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 29, 2022 | |
Varo Money
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Varo Money is driven by a mission to redefine banking so it’s easy for everyone to make smart choices with their money. In one mobile app, Varo offers customers no-cost premium bank accounts and high-interest savings accounts offered through The Bancorp Bank, and tech-first features to help people manage their money more easily.The company wasfounded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $241M / Series D / Jun 03, 2020 | |
Varo Bank
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Varo Money is driven by a mission to redefine banking so it’s easy for everyone to make smart choices with their money. In one mobile app, Varo offers customers no-cost premium bank accounts and high-interest savings accounts offered through The Bancorp Bank, and tech-first features to help people manage their money more easily.The company wasfounded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $241M / Series D / Jun 03, 2020 | |
Aspiration
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Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice. | $135M / Series C / May 21, 2020 | |
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Aspiration
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Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice. | $47M / Series B / Dec 07, 2017 | |
Got It AI
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Democratizing Conversational AI: Leveraging TrueNLP™ based Self Discovering, Self Training and Self Maintaining Conversational AI. Got It AI eliminates tedious manual work with automatically created flows, intent paraphrases, response paraphrases and No code fulfillment, making it easy to deploy and manage conversational solutions. | $9M / Series A / Apr 28, 2016 | |
Diamond Foundry
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We are delivering the future of tetrahedrally crystallized carbon, aka diamond: a material with a dozen of the most extreme properties of any in the universe.Our proprietary manufacturing technology can now deliver diamond at mining scale -- without the social & environmental toll of mining.In our zero-emission foundry, we sustainablycreate diamond for the jewelry and semiconductor industries.Our VRAI brand brings iconic innovation in diamond jewelry direct to consumers.Our semiconductor solutions address the key challenge limiting the performance of everything from electric cars to 5G wireless to cloud & AI compute: heat dissipation. | $50M / Series A / Nov 15, 2015 | |
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Diamond Foundry
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We are delivering the future of tetrahedrally crystallized carbon, aka diamond: a material with a dozen of the most extreme properties of any in the universe.Our proprietary manufacturing technology can now deliver diamond at mining scale -- without the social & environmental toll of mining.In our zero-emission foundry, we sustainablycreate diamond for the jewelry and semiconductor industries.Our VRAI brand brings iconic innovation in diamond jewelry direct to consumers.Our semiconductor solutions address the key challenge limiting the performance of everything from electric cars to 5G wireless to cloud & AI compute: heat dissipation. | $50M / Series A / Nov 15, 2015 | |
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Aspiration
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Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice. | $15.5M / Series A / Sep 17, 2015 | |
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Co-Investors
Allen & Company
2 deals together
Alpha Edison
2 deals together
AGO Partners
2 deals together
Caspian VC Partners
2 deals together
Future Tech Lab
2 deals together
Gallatin Point Capital
2 deals together
About Capricorn Investment Group
Capricorn Investment Group was created in 2000 to demonstrate the promise that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. Today Capricorn manages the assets for Jeff Skoll, the Skoll Foundation, and others who strive for extraordinary investment results by leveraging market forces to accelerate large-scaleimpact. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real assets markets across the globe. Capricorn has offices in Palo Alto, California, and New York, New York.
Capricorn Investment Group Contacts
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Dipender Saluja
Managing Director
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Jeffrey S. Skoll
Founder
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Jim Lyons
Chief Technologist
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Jy Bhardwaj
Entrepreneur in Residence
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Clarey Castner
Client Relations Consultant
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FAQ
What does Jeffrey S. Skoll invest in?
Jeffrey S. Skoll invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Jeffrey S. Skoll last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jeffrey S. Skoll closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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