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Skoll Foundation

The Skoll Foundation, established in 1999 by Jeff Skoll, is a non-profit organization headquartered in the United States that aims to promote a sustainable world characterized by peace and prosperity. Under the leadership of CEO Sally Osberg since 2001, the foundation's mission centers on driving large-scale change by investing in and supporting social entrepreneurs, who are recognized as key agents of societal transformation. By identifying and empowering individuals and organizations that address pressing global issues, the Skoll Foundation enhances their capacity to effect positive change. The foundation has awarded approximately $413 million to date, supporting 108 social entrepreneurs and 87 organizations across five continents. In addition to direct investments, it partners with prominent institutions like the Saïd Business School at Oxford to foster academic research in social entrepreneurship and hosts the Skoll World Forum, a premier conference that connects social innovators and thought leaders. Through collaborations and program-related investments, the foundation seeks to deepen its impact on critical issues such as education, healthcare access, and environmental sustainability while raising public awareness about the potential of social entrepreneurship.

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Liz Diebold

Principal

Donald H. Gips

Chief Executive Officer

James Nardella

Principal, Portfolio and Investments

Jude O'Reilley

Vice President, Portfolio and Investments

Sally Osberg

President and Chief Executive Officer

Ben Pyne

Associate Principal

Debbie Santos

Senior Director of Finance

11 past transactions

MPedigree

Grant in 2019
mPedigree Network uses mobile phones and other web technologies to secure products against faking and counterfeiting. It offers systems to protect medicine, agro-chemicals, cosmetics, medical devices, electric devices, and similar consumables, which are critical to the health and well-being of people as well as to ensure that such critical products reach them in the right condition, protected from counterfeiting, diversion, tampering, and other supply chain abuses. The company is headquartered in Bangalore, India with offices in Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya.

mPharma

Grant in 2019
mPharma Data, Inc. is a technology-driven company based in Accra, Ghana, with an additional location in Lexington, Massachusetts. Founded in 2013, it focuses on improving access to high-quality medications in emerging markets by connecting physicians, pharmacies, and patients through its application. The company aggregates real-time market data on prescription trends, drug consumption, and adverse reactions, providing valuable insights to pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and governments. mPharma offers a pharmacy network application that centralizes inventories from multiple pharmacies, enabling easier drug searches for physicians and patients. Additionally, the company provides subscription-based data analytics for actionable insights on drug consumption and diagnosis, along with prescription management tools to assist healthcare providers in locating various medicines. By partnering with drug manufacturers, insurance companies, and governments, mPharma aims to facilitate affordable access to essential medications for patients.

ConnectMed

Grant in 2016
ConnectedMed builds digital therapeutics platform that allows patients to manage their primary and chronic care needs.

Namati

Grant in 2016
A World Bank study found that Timap’s paralegals managed to squeeze justice out of a broken system: stopping a school master from beating children; negotiating child support payments from a derelict father; persuading the water authority to repair a well. In exceptional cases, such as when a mining company damaged six villages’ land and abandoned the region without paying compensation, a tiny corps of lawyers can resort to litigation and higher-level advocacy to obtain a remedy. Timap for Justice has been recognized by International Crisis Group, Transparency International, President Jimmy Carter, the World Bank, and others as an innovative model for delivering justice services

Videre

Grant in 2016
Effective documentation and exposure are vital factors in the fight against human rights violations. Videre, an international charity founded in 2008, gives local activists the equipment, training and support needed to safely capture compelling video evidence of human rights violations. This captured footage is verified, analysed and then distributed to those who can create change.

Breakthrough

Grant in 2016
Breakthrough is an innovative, human rights organization using the power of popular culture, media, leadership development and community education to transform public attitudes and advance equality, justice, and dignity. Through various initiatives in six states of India (Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar and Jharkhand), Breakthrough addresses critical issues around domestic violence, early marriage, gender biased sex selection and sexual harassment in public spaces.

Equal Justice Initiative

Grant in 2016
The Equal Justice Initiative is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. EJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. EJI also prepares reports, newsletters, and manuals to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of reforming the administration of criminal justice.

Living Goods

Grant in 2016
Empowering micro-entrepreneurs to deliver life-changing products to the doorsteps of the poor. Living Goods believes that the poor are not helpless victims; they are resilient entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers. They need better opportunities to grow their incomes and better access to products that improve their lives. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling life-changing products like simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in health and wealth for families throughout the developing world.

Nanosolar

Series D in 2008
Nanosolar, Inc. is a manufacturer of solar electricity cells and panels, specializing in cost-efficient solar energy solutions. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company also has manufacturing facilities in Berlin, Germany. Nanosolar utilizes a proprietary printing process to produce CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) solar cells and lightweight solar-electric cell foils, known as SolarPly, which can be customized to various sizes. This innovative approach minimizes reliance on expensive vacuum deposition equipment, allowing the company to leverage industrial printing techniques for high-speed production. Nanosolar's product line includes utility panels designed for large-scale power plants, making it a significant player in the solar energy sector.