OWL Ventures

OWL Ventures, Ltd. (simply known as OWL Ventures) is an privately held Canadian holding company and venture firm.

The company is based at the OWL Ventures Centre (formerly the Rogers Building) in Toronto, with secondary headquarters located at the OWL Ventures Campus in Brampton and is owned by and acts as the personal holding and investment 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 Content 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 75% stake in Canadian professional sports company Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, and a stake in the San Francisco Giants, an American baseball team.

Background
OWL Ventures was formed as the holding company for Oliver Watson, founder and head of the British-American media and entertainment company. the Battersea Group, which before its merger with Styhon Entertainment, was the only asset owned by OWL.

Oliver felt the need to expand his own business, something he felt Battersea didn't allow him to do. He later met Finnish businessperson Kasperi Salovaara, who recently purchased Styhon Entertainment, and who also worked in the music industry, via the ownership of Zoop Music Entertainment. Oliver and Kasperi became business partners and friends, and they later started to discuss merger opportunities for their respective companies, which would later occur with the Styhon-Battersea merger.

Shortly after the merger, the group transitioned into a venture firm, thanks to the billions OWL received and would invest in from the merger, and as such, Watson would own a 6% stake in the newly merged Styhon Battersea. Watson's position at SB would be limited to an top advisory role, in order to devote more time and efforts into OWL. Kasperi would later join the OWL's management team.

List of assets owned by OWL Ventures
See: List of assets owned by OWL Ventures.