O'Shaughnessy Ventures

Name

O'Shaughnessy Ventures

Legal name

O'Shaughnessy Ventures, L.L.C.

Website

https://osv.llc

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Family Office Investment Services

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles (525)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Single-Family Offices (SFOs) (FSAAADAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Family Office Investment Platforms & Direct Investing (PE/VC/Co-Invest) (FSAAADAH), Managed Platforms & Wrap Programs for Private Clients (Model Portfolios, UMA/SMAs) (FSAAABAM)

Keywords

• Family office investing
• Early-stage venture capital
• Creator fellowships
• Independent book publishing
• Documentary film production

Headquarters

HQ city

Greenwich

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Others, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Investment Returns: As a family office investment and holding company, OSV generates returns through equity stakes in early-stage companies and creative ventures. The firm backs founders before the world knows their names, taking equity or revenue-sharing arrangements with portfolio companies and fellowship recipients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

O'Shaughnessy Ventures (OSV) is a family office investment and holding company founded in 2023 that backs early-stage founders, researchers, and creatives through a combination of equity investments (OSV Adventures), $100,000 fellowships, and $10,000 grants. The firm operates five verticals: Adventures (venture investing), Infinite Books (publishing), Infinite Films (documentary/narrative production), Infinite Media (podcasts, newsletters, YouTube), and the O'Shaughnessy Fellowships program. Fellows and grantees retain 100% ownership of their work while gaining access to OSV's network of founders, investors, and experts.

Product overview

O'Shaughnessy Ventures (OSV) is a family office investment and holding company based in Greenwich, Connecticut operating across five verticals: Infinite Adventures (early-stage investments), Infinite Books (publishing), Infinite Films (documentary/narrative film production), Infinite Media (podcasts, newsletters, YouTube content), and the O'Shaughnessy Fellowships/Grants program. The core offering is a portfolio of venture investments combined with creative funding programs—the Fellowships provide $100,000 grants while Grants provide $10,000 for smaller projects. The company also publishes books through Infinite Books and produces media content through Infinite Media, all under the OSVerse Substack platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Infinite Books OSV's publishing house that publishes fiction and nonfiction works that transcend trends and speak to enduring human truths, combining traditional publishing quality with modern flexibility. Titles include Dispatches from Grief, Shooting Up, White Mirror, Counting Thyme, and Two Thoughts.
• Infinite Films OSV's film production division producing documentaries and narrative films that flip the script on dystopian narratives, telling stories that inspire and expand shared imagination. Films are distributed through Prime Video, Apple TV, and YouTube.
• Infinite Media OSV's media studio that curates and amplifies podcasts, newsletters, and YouTube content. Includes the Infinite Loops podcast, A Cheese Course YouTube show, Becoming The Main Character podcast, and Cost of Glory podcast.
• OSV Adventures (Investment Vertical) OSV's venture investment arm that backs early-stage companies and creators with radical ideas. Portfolio includes investments in AI, biotech, proptech, and creative technology companies such as Affinity, Furno Materials, Hegel AI, Prefect, Prophetic, Stability AI, Synthesis School, Valley, Wand, ZAMS, Margins, and Cove.
• The OSVerse Substack Newsletter OSV's Substack newsletter platform with 10,000+ subscribers, home to updates about Infinite Books, Infinite Media, O'Shaughnessy Fellowships, and the Infinite Loops podcast.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability9 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Substack: Newsletter platform that powers creator-led subscription publishing. OTHERS because OSV's OSVerse (10,000+ subscribers) runs on Substack; the company is an enabling platform for OSV's media vertical rather than a direct competitor.

Emerging players

• Stripe Press: Publishing imprint affiliated with Stripe that produces long-form non-fiction with design-forward presentation. Comparable to OSV's Infinite Books vertical in pairing a tech/investment platform with a curated publishing house focused on enduring works.
• Bloomberg Beta: Early-stage venture fund focused on the future of work, backed by Bloomberg LP. Comparable to OSV Adventures in seed-stage orientation and willingness to back unconventional bets in emerging tech categories.

Direct peers

• Pioneer Fund: Early-stage venture fund that invests in founders building category-defining companies, often with unconventional theses. Comparable to OSV Adventures in its willingness to back radical ideas before mainstream validation and in similar check sizes.
• Emerson Collective: Laurene Powell Jobs's family office that combines direct investments across education, media, and social impact with operating media and cultural projects. Closest analogue to OSV's blend of venture investing + publishing/media + founder empowerment.
• Omidyar Network: Pierre Omidyar's family office that deploys patient capital through direct investments and impact-focused funds across multiple sectors. Comparable to OSV's family-office-led direct investment approach across Adventures and Fellowships verticals.
• Thiel Foundation / Thiel Fellowship: Peter Thiel's program awarding $100,000 to young founders who forgo or pause college to build. Direct counterpart to OSV's $100K Fellowship in targeting bold, unconventional founders willing to bet on radical ideas outside traditional institutional pathways.
• Chapter One (Chapter One Ventures): Early-stage venture firm focused on seed-stage founder-led companies across software and frontier tech. Comparable to OSV Adventures in thesis (early bets on bold founders) and stage orientation.
• Schmidt Futures (Eric Schmidt): Eric Schmidt's philanthropic and investment vehicle funding science, technology, and fellowship programs at scale. Comparable to OSV in deploying founder-led patient capital across fellowships, science bets, and creator support.

Broad incumbents

• Andreessen Horowitz (a16z): Large, established venture firm operating across multiple verticals with a published-content strategy and podcast ecosystem. Comparable to OSV as a broader incumbent in early-stage venture with parallel content/distribution operations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/osventuresllc
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@acheesecourse/videos
• Instagraminstagram.com/osventuresllc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/osventuresllc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments23 records

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