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Ion YADIGAROGLU

  • Partner
  • Capricorn Investment Group
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Bio


Ion Yadigaroglu has been Managing Partner at Capricorn Investment Group since 2004 and is an early investor in iconic technology companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, QuantumScape, and Saildrone. Capricorn was born from the desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems and is widely regarded as one of the original impact investors. Prior to Capricorn, Ion was Director of Business Development (M&A) at Koch Industries, executing a range of acquisitions and investments. He was also Founder and CEO of Bivio, a software startup in Colorado, and began his career as a quantitative forex analyst at Olsen & Associates. He was a research fellow at Columbia University and holds a Master’s in Physics from ETH Zürich and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Stanford University. Ion currently serves on the boards of SpaceX, Fervo Energy, Seurat Technologies, Twelve, Erthos, Encourage Capital, Ceres, and the Environmental Defense Fund. He is also a founding member of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), CREO, and other initiatives that support values-driven investing. More recently, his work in climate policy helped shape Section 45X of the Inflation Reduction Act, supporting domestic clean energy manufacturing through long-term production tax credits for batteries, solar cells and wind turbines.

Talks


July 5
16:15
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