OWL Ventures

OWL Ventures, Ltd. (simply known as OWL) is an privately held Canadian holding company and venture firm. The company is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is owned by and acts as the personal holding company for American-British-Canadian media and entertainment executive Oliver Watson, which the company is named after, Oliver Watson Limited.

Among its assets include American entertainment company OWL Studios, which owns a 50% stake in All3Media, OWL Media, which operates Canadian media company Global Media, and a 6% stake in Styhon Battersea, OWL Telecom, which operates Hoot, a telecom company formed from the purchase of Vodafone Ireland and Telenor Bulgaria, and OWL Sports, which owns a 37.5% stake in Canadian professional sports company Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, and a stake in the San Francisco Giants, an American baseball team.