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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
2 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
5 people on two or more of them
Ian Osborne is a London-based venture capitalist, strategic advisor, and SPAC sponsor who serves as Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hedosophia, an international technology-focused investment firm he established in 2012. He is best known in capital markets as the co-founder, alongside Chamath Palihapitiya, of Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp., the blank-check sponsorship platform that helped ignite the modern SPAC boom. Osborne has served as President and director of multiple Social Capital Hedosophia SPACs, including Holdings Corp. II (IPOB, which merged with Opendoor), Holdings Corp. IV (IPOD), and Holdings Corp. VI (IPOF), the latter of which raised $1.0 billion in its IPO. He also served as a director of the original Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. (IPOA) from May 2017 until its business combination with Virgin Galactic in October 2019. His SPAC equity holdings have been reported to be worth as much as $300 million, and the Financial Times has described Hedosophia as a $1.5 billion venture capital firm.
Before founding Hedosophia, Osborne was a Partner and Managing Director at DST Global from 2010 to 2012, the prominent internet investment fund whose portfolio included Alibaba, Airbnb, Facebook, Spotify, and Twitter. He is also the founder and Chairman of Osborne & Partners, a strategic advisory firm serving a select group of governments, corporations, and high-profile leaders, and the indirect controlling shareholder and a director of Connaught, a financial advisory firm he founded around 2015. His advisory clients over the years have included figures such as Michael Bloomberg, Li Ka-Shing, and Ronald Perelman. Osborne began his career unconventionally as a teenage theater producer in London's West End before moving to New York, where he launched a marketing firm and worked as an outside consultant for Bloomberg LP, coordinating strategic meetings and carrying out special projects. He has been described in media profiles as a well-connected power broker who cultivated relationships spanning Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Downing Street, though former aides to Prime Minister David Cameron have indicated he never held an official government role despite frequent media references to him as a Tory advisor.
Osborne's investment track record through Hedosophia includes stakes in companies such as Spotify, TransferWise, Babylon Health, WeFox, N26, FlixBus, Glovo, Oscar, Acorns, Stash, Ant Group, and Lufax, with a notable weighting toward European fintech and insurtech. As an angel investor, he has also made personal investments in companies including Inturn and Easyship. He serves as a board director at Havas and LCH Partners, and is a Member of the World Economic Forum. Together with Sean Parker and Marc Benioff, he is a co-founder and director of The Montagnard Group, a non-profit initiative fostering philanthropic giving by the technology community. He is also a Contributing Editor of The Spectator and GQ. Osborne was born and raised in Richmond, London, the son of a lawyer and a doctor, and was educated at St Paul's School, King's College London, and the London School of Economics. He operates primarily out of London but is frequently described as constantly traveling between London, Hong Kong, and other global financial centers.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001715393 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 46 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 24 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.