Weeks ago we opened a reading room onto the network behind Osparna: Oluwadi, a publicly accessible read of the U.S. venture landscape region by region and market by market, built to surface what a place actually builds instead of what it's already known for. That was "opened to read." Today it's opened further, in two ways.
No account needed
Oluwadi no longer asks anyone to sign in. There was a login, and a Pro/Business tier behind it. While there is clearly overlap between Oluwadi and Osparna they speak to different audiences. Oluwadi is for those zeroing in on a specific region, market, or technology. Osparna's UI supports serendipity -- walking the graph to see where you land, analysis, and, most importantly, the ability to overlap your data on ours. Oluwadi reads the network, free, for anyone. Osparna is the instrument for doing something with what you find. Clear reasons to use both.
Anyone can propose an addition
The graph behind Oluwadi is only as good as what's in it, and no team, however careful, sees everything worth seeing first. So there's now a simple form -- no account required there either -- where anyone can suggest a company, investor, university, or other organization for inclusion: a name, a website, a line on what it does, a link backing it up if there is one.
Submissions don't touch the live graph directly. They're staged and reviewed before anything goes public -- the same discipline we hold the rest of the data to: an honest gap is worth more than a fast, unverified fill. But the door to contribute is now as open as the door to read -- which is really the same principle from weeks ago, pointed in the other direction. If the map was wrong about a place because nobody looked, the fix isn't a better editor. It's more people who actually know that place telling us what's really there.
Why this, now
This wasn't a product that wasn't working -- it was two products close enough to be confused for each other. Osparna's own view of the network -- the deep instrument this reading room opens onto -- stays exactly what it was: rigorous, sourced, built for real diligence. Oluwadi doesn't compete with that to justify itself; it is a different thing. Free to read, open to contribute, no gate in between -- that's the clear position.
Start with a region you think you know. If it's missing something, now you can say so.
Oluwadi is a product of Osparna Inc. Questions: info@osparna.com