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In May, we launched manager-contributed fund returns, added new ways to track LP holdings, improved our search capabilities, and refreshed our people experiences.
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Fund Returns
In April, we launched the First 50 – an invite-only founding cohort of managers joining and contributing private data to OWL. Spots have filled quickly, and the group ranges from pre-launch managers spinning out of large firms to established managers with 20+ year track records, public and private, US and international.
Those managers started by contributing their marketing materials, letters, and reports to OWL. In May, we added the ability for managers to share their fund returns on the platform. Managers control what they share and with whom, and we’ve also added data for managers that make their returns publicly available.
Thank you to all of our allocator users who have invited managers to the First 50. It matters to us that OWL's existing users shape the community going forward. The one-click "Invite Manager" button is on every manager page and we encourage LPs to invite managers to the platform.
Every manager in the First 50 is there because an allocator wanted them on OWL. Most are invited directly; managers can also apply, and we add them only where there's real interest from our community.
Aggregated Allocator Holdings
Allocators’ manager investments are now rolled up at the manager level, so you can quickly understand who an allocator backs without wading through every individual fund. You can still expand any manager to see the underlying funds and click into a disclosed value to see how it has changed over time. A recent OWL Insights analyzed Harvard’s Portfolio, which is a good example of OWL’s allocator holdings aggregations:
We believe OWL has the most comprehensive and accurate collection of allocator holdings, and we continue to improve it every month.
Search Improvements
In May, we shipped a set of upgrades to make OWL’s search experiences more powerful.
Top Results in Global Search - We refreshed our primary search bar to get you to the right result faster. Search now leads with a Top Results section – a handful of most likely matches – before breaking out managers, allocators, and stocks. The search functionality also includes more aliases, so searching "UNC" will surface the University of North Carolina's endowment more easily.
Private Holdings Search – You can now bring private holdings data into OWL’s Search experience, making it easier to screen private markets alongside OWL’s manager data to answer questions like the following:
- Show me all private Tiger Cub Investments outside of the US
Shared Groups as filters – Users have the ability to share custom groups across their organization and you can now load a shared group directly into Manager Search. For example, you can filter to a colleague's Biotech group that has been shared across your organization and then quickly pull those managers up on a map.
Multi-value filters on text fields – Text fields like Full Name and Job Title now allow you to search for several values at once.
A redesigned Edit Columns experience – We rebuilt Edit Columns, making it easier to save searches with the exact columns you are looking for.
Improved People Pages
We also rebuilt our people experience to make it both cleaner and faster. Employee profiles now have their own pages, with overlapping roles that expand and collapse cleanly, and references are one click away.
Employee Timelines on manager profiles now include an “Experiences” dropdown to select help filter out non-primary work experiences. This is especially helpful for VCs sitting on multiple boards.
A Faster OWL
This month we completed a multi-month effort to move the entire application onto a single, modern front end. The most important part for you: OWL should simply feel snappier. Just as important, consolidating our tech stack lets us ship improvements faster and makes larger, app-wide design upgrades far easier to roll out.
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