Ravenswood Partners

Ravenswood Partners

Ravenswood Partners was founded in 2023 by Ashraf Haque, who spent his entire prior investment career at Sands Capital, a $45 billion growth manager. The firm launched as an independent, fully employee-owned structure with a co-founding team that includes John Freeman, Arthur Olson, and Matt Smith. Haque named the firm after the Chicago neighborhood where he grew up. The firm runs a single flagship vehicle, the Partners Fund, which holds 10 to 20 global equities. The strategy targets what it calls “underappreciated growth” across three buckets: generational winners taking share in large end markets, companies undergoing complexity or cyclical change that masks growth, and durable franchises with unusually long cash-flow runways. Ravenswood is run by a compact team. The firm operates from a single office in McLean and has not disclosed total assets under management or a deployment figure. Its most recent dated content examines generative-AI-driven demand for miners and shovel-shop suppliers, pointing to active work in the AI infrastructure supply chain as recently as 2023. As a 100% employee-owned manager launched by a senior investor from a large growth platform, Ravenswood avoids the potential misalignment of external ownership. That structure, combined with its single-strategy focus and a founding team that worked together previously, makes the firm’s governance the structural differentiator — an independent partnership built to run one concentrated portfolio with shared research DNA, rather than a multi-product platform accumulating asset-gathering scale.