Turn your expertise into a second income.

Pick the companies in your industry you believe in. Oval turns those picks into an investment strategy and pays you when investors back it.

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Your picks
Modern Tech
Halden Systems
34%
Northwind Cloud
26%
Cedar Semiconductors
22%
Atlas Robotics
18%
Total allocation 100%
Managed by You
Modern Tech
A long-only book built on the tools and platforms reshaping tech.
Aggressive Technology Growth
Return +18.4%
$896,500 invested · 412 investors View strategy
Example strategy, for illustration.

Three people who could run a strategy tomorrow.

The programmer

Uses the tools all day and knows which ones the team can't work without. Picks the companies behind them.

Software picks
4 companies
Forge Analytics
30%
Beacon Identity
28%
Northgate DevOps
24%
Parallel Compute
18%
Example companies, not real ones.

People invest better in the industry they know.

+16%

annual risk-adjusted returns when industry insiders pick stocks in their own field.

Ben-David, Birru and Rossi, Journal of Financial Economics, 2019.

The knowledge was always there. You were just missing the infrastructure.

How it works

If you can pick the companies, you can run the strategy.

1
Set your picks

Choose your companies and how much weight each gets. No jargon, no finance degree required.

Build your portfolio
Halden Systems40%
Northwind Cloud35%
Add a company
Cedar Semiconductors Saved
New weight 22% → 28%
2
Update when your view changes

New product flops? Trial fails? Adjust your picks in minutes. Oval handles everything that makes it real.

3
Stay at your day job

Oval runs the strategy day to day. You step in only when your thinking changes.

Strategy running. Nothing needs your attention.
Last updated by you 3 weeks ago.

Start free in the incubator and see how easy it is.

If you're right, the payoff is real.

Real income
When real money opens, you earn a share of the management fee on every dollar backing your strategy.
A following
Investors watch, follow, and back strategies they believe in. Your record is public and computed by Oval, so being right is visible.
A second act
Some managers will do this on the side forever. For others, it's the start of managing money for a living. Both are wins.

The next great manager might not come from finance.

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