Skillz

#9078

Rank

$96.38M

Marketcap

United States

Country

Leadership team

Mr. Andrew C. Paradise (Co-Founder, CEO, Pres & Chairman)

Mr. Casey Chafkin (Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer, Treasurer & Director)

Mr. Scott D. Henry (Exec. Advisor)

Products/ Services

Developer Platform, eSports, Software, Video Games

Number of Employees

500 - 1000

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Established

2012

Company Registration

SEC CIK number: 0001801661

Revenue

100M - 500M

Traded as

SKLZ

Social Media

URL

https://www.skillz.com

Overview

Location

Recognition and Award

References

Summary

Skillz Inc. operates a mobile games platform that connects players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition. The company primarily develops and supports a proprietary online-hosted technology platform that enables independent game developers to host tournaments and provide competitive gaming activity to end-users worldwide. It also hosts casual esports tournaments to a range of mobile players. The company distributes games through direct app download from its website, as well as through third-party platforms. Skillz Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

History

Skillz was founded in 2012 by Andrew Paradise and Casey Chafkin in Boston, though the company's headquarters is now located in San Francisco.Through different rounds of funding, Skillz has raised $53 million from venture capitalists including Liberty Global, Telstra, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, as well as the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings.By June 2015, Skillz had launched 550 games and partnered with 1,100 game studios. In December 2017, Skillz's growth rate was 50,000%. In the same year, Skillz hired its one hundredth full-time employee. As of September 2017, 33% of Skillz's engineering team were women.

Mission

Our mission is to make gaming better and more meaningful. We do so by enabling mobile game development studios to create thriving businesses by transforming their games into eSports, while providing players everywhere with access to fair, fun competition.

Vision

Our vision is to be the global leader in competitive online gaming.

Key Team

Mr. Jason Roswig (Pres & CFO)

Ms. Val Texin (Chief Financial Officer of Competition Platform)

Mr. Vassily Filippov (Chief Technology Officer)

Mr. Stanley Mbugua (Chief Accounting Officer)

Ms. Charlotte Edelman (Gen. Counsel & Corp. Sec.)

Mr. Stefan Gerhard (VP of Fin.)

Recognition and Awards

Skillz has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and multiple other publications. In 2017, Skillz was selected for the 2017 Austin GDC Pitch Competition as a finalist, and was also a part of Apple’s global “Best of 2016” list.