Skyview Investment Advisors

Steven Scopellite serves as Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1987 and ultimately became the firm's global chief information officer, overseeing technology across its trading, banking, and asset management divisions before founding Skyview in 2009. Investment decisions flow through Scopellite and a small internal team.

Skyview operates a hybrid model. It makes direct venture investments in early-growth and expansion-stage technology companies, and it also seeds emerging hedge fund managers with a focus on quantitative and technology-driven strategies. The direct portfolio has included companies like Xignite and Transactis (acquired by Mastercard).

Skyview targets early-growth and expansion-stage rounds. It tends to enter after the initial seed phase, providing growth capital to enterprise technology companies that have demonstrated product-market fit and are scaling revenue, particularly in software, fintech, and digital health.

Skyview participates in venture rounds alongside other institutional investors as a co-investor. While it maintains a low profile, its limited partners and co-investment partners are typically other venture firms and institutional allocators participating in the same funding rounds. The firm does not operate a club-deal membership model.

Scopellite's long tenure at Goldman Sachs, where he evaluated and allocated technology resources to trading desks and asset management units, gives Skyview a proprietary lens into emerging quantitative and fintech-driven hedge fund strategies. The firm sources manager talent through its founder's professional network rather than through open calls or marketing intermediaries.

Skyview is neither. It operates as an investment advisory firm with a dual mandate — venture capital and hedge fund seeding — serving external capital as well as the founder's own. It does not publicly claim the single-family office designation, and its regulatory structure reflects an external investment management posture rather than a dedicated family wealth vehicle.

Scopellite spent two decades building and overseeing the technology infrastructure that powered Goldman's trading and investment management operations. At Skyview, he applies an institutional allocator's perspective to venture and seeding, emphasizing operational due diligence, technology scalability, and risk management more typical of a large LP than a boutique venture firm.