OEL Venture Investments

OEL Venture Investments

OEL Venture Investments is the family-office vehicle of Owen Van Natta, a veteran Silicon Valley executive whose career traversed Facebook, MySpace, and Zynga during their formative periods. Van Natta established the entity following liquidity from his operating roles, notably his tenure as Facebook's Chief Operating Officer and later as CEO of MySpace. The office operates from the San Francisco Bay Area. Van Natta's deployment strategy skews toward early-stage enterprise software and consumer internet companies — the categories he navigated as an operator. Confirmed portfolio positions, drawn from regulatory filings and reporting, include stakes in private technology firms and angel-stage deals. He participated in seed rounds for companies such as Asana, the work-management platform co-founded by Dustin Moskovitz, and has been listed as an investor in other early-stage ventures that emerged from the Facebook and broader social-web diaspora. Geographic focus centers on the United States, with concentration in California. Team scale is lean, consistent with a single-principal family office. Van Natta makes investment decisions personally, often alongside peers from his operator network. The office does not maintain dedicated public-facing investment staff or publish vehicle structures. Limited public data suggests a preference for direct equity investments rather than fund commitments. OEL does not operate adjacent philanthropic foundations or commercial real-estate arms under that brand, though Van Natta has engaged in board roles that inform his deal flow, including a directorship at social-gaming company Zynga. The structural differentiator is access: Van Natta's historical position inside Facebook's early executive team — and his network across multiple iconic Silicon Valley companies — provides deal-flow advantages that institutional funds cannot replicate. The office functions as a concentrated, network-driven personal balance sheet, not a diversified asset manager. Governance is direct, with no disclosed succession plan or institutionalized committee structure.