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November 25, 2019
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October 2, 2019
–Deep Tech Gets Delicious– Delicious, rooted in data and deep technological innovation business software is
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September 13, 2019
We are proudly announcing our newest investment in Finnish start-up Leadoo. An article and interview
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August 15, 2019
Niklas Rosenberg will be joining TechBBQ September 18-19 in Copenhagen.
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August 1, 2019
Yina Ye and Niklas Rosenberg will be joining STHLM Tech Fest this September again. In
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July 9, 2019
We are proudly announcing our investment into IQM Finland Oy (IQM), a Finland-based startup with a
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June 24, 2019
Dear OpenOcean Partners & Friends We're excited to announce that our portfolio company Bitrise has
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May 3, 2019
Tom joins the Nordic Private Equity Summit (NPES). NPES provides insights on the latest industry
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May 2, 2019
Tom is joining NOAH Berlin to have a fireside chat with Stephen Upstone, the CEO
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May 1, 2019
Reid joins SaaStr Europe (Paris) to meet with relentless founders of data-intensive software startups!
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April 29, 2019
Ekaterina Almasque will be moderating a fireside chat @Arctic15 with Harri Valpola, Co-founder & CEO
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April 28, 2019
Janina is joining the annual Newscamp to discuss the use and monetisation of data in
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April 22, 2019
May was packed with events. Patrik Backman and Niklas Rosenberg joined Pioneers´19 in Vienna to
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April 20, 2019
Ekaterina Almasque and Mike Reiner joined TNW to judge innovative startups in the #PitchBattle, and
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April 7, 2019
By publishing our anti-discrimination and harassment policy we share with our network important values that
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March 21, 2019
April 9 Join us with 150 selected CEO, partners and visionaries to deep-dive into core
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March 19, 2019
March 19-20 Niklas Rosenberg joined InsureTech Insights in London to connect and hear about innovation
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February 1, 2019
March 19-20 Patrik Backman joined Wolves Summit to meet with innovative, data-intensive startups and scale-ups
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December 4, 2018
Dec 4 Thank you for joining us at the 5th night of poker OpenOcean style
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August 16, 2018
OpenOcean attended CogX London in full-force, hosting a interactive workshop conducted by Tom Henriksson on
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February 19, 2018
The OpenOcean CEO Summit is our annual gathering of Europe's most ambitious entrepreneurs and visionaries
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December 18, 2017
Niko Karstikko attended a Finnish startup conference in 2014 in hopes of garnering interest in his
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December 18, 2017
On Tuesday, 5th December we co-hosted "The State of Blockchain" with TOA x Fabric Ventures
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December 18, 2017
According to what has become a tradition over the past four years, we hosted another
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December 18, 2017
Entrepreneurship is exciting. Entrepreneurship that impacts the lives of millions is incredible. It was an
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December 18, 2017
Once again this year, we gathered our friends for a night of porto-tonics in the
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December 18, 2017
'Delicious' software is not just easy to download, adopt or use - it’s software that
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October 19, 2017
Vinay Gupta has followed cryptocurrency on its journey to the mainstream, aiding in disaster relief,
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October 11, 2017
On Tuesday, 10th October we gathered some of the key players in the Finnish startup
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September 21, 2017
Richard was joined by the excellent Irra Ariella Khi – CEO, Vchain Technology; Mariano Belinky – Managing Partner, Santander InnoVentures; Lex Sokolin –
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September 15, 2017
Richard Muirhead flew over to Zurich to take part in the ICO Summit, speaking on
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September 7, 2017
It seems that lately everyone wants to know about “The Blockchain”. Massive gains in token
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September 6, 2017
The pace of innovation in decentralised technologies including blockchains is accelerating faster than anyone had
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July 31, 2017
There’s a problem out there in Developer Land in that developers of apps in iOS,
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July 13, 2017
Richard Muirhead gave a reverse pitch on what we look for at OpenOcean: relentlessly reckless
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July 13, 2017
Helsinki-based ecommerce SaaS startup Nosto has received a €15 million loan from the European Investment
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July 13, 2017
“Booksy is constantly developing new ways to make appointments easier for you and your clients.
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July 7, 2017
Richard Muirhead participated in the London CryptoFinancing Conference, debating the future of VC in the
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June 27, 2017
While visiting startups in Paris, our team hosted a dinner with a few exciting Parisian
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June 21, 2017
Richard Muirhead participated in a panel discussion on investing in AI at the inaugural edition
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June 21, 2017
RapidMiner won the CogX A.I. Award for “Best Innovation in Predictive Analytics” at CogX London 2017. The
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June 13, 2017
Hosted by Mike Butcher of TechCrunch, Richard Muirhead joined him on the stage for two
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June 2, 2017
During Pioneers17 in Vienna, Richard and Anastasiya gathered friends old and new for after-event drinks
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June 2, 2017
On June 1st, Richard Muirhead appeared on stage at Pioneers’17 and gave a talk on cracking
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June 2, 2017
Surpassing Facebook, leading communication app Truecaller has become the fourth most downloaded application in India
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June 1, 2017
Unacast, the world’s largest network of proximity data and the creators of the Real World
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May 25, 2017
During Consensus and Token Summit in New York, Richard, Max, and Christina could not miss
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May 24, 2017
RapidMiner CEO Peter Y Lee was identified as one of the top 25 CEOs in
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May 10, 2017
Our tech wizard Monty Widenius spoke about ways to create lasting opensource businesses at Oscon in Austin
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May 9, 2017
As open source database architecture continues to grow in popularity, one of the bigger developers
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May 5, 2017
Our partner Ralf Wahlsten joined Helsinki’s Arctic15, participating as a startup pitches jury.
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March 28, 2017
Our partner Patrik Backman flew over to Warsaw to attend the Wolves Summit and join
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March 27, 2017
Investing in AI – Getting the targets and the timing right With UK exits from
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February 28, 2017
Richard Muirhead joined the jury panel at 4YFN in Barcelona, alongside Itamar Novick, Aurore Belfrage,
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February 28, 2017
Richard and Anastasiya from our team were on the ground at MWC and 4YFN Barcelona,
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December 14, 2016
OpenOcean hosted an informal drinks reception during Web Summit 2016 in Lisbon, bringing together the
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December 1, 2016
OpenOcean have hosted two (legendary!) Poker Nights at Slush over the past two years, and
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November 24, 2016
This morning Richard Muirhead met with the TechHub startup community to share his expertise as an investor and
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September 3, 2015
Richard was invited to share his expertise in blockchain at a roundtable discussion hosted by
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April 5, 2014
On April 5th Richard Muirhead hosted a panel debate at The O2 on How Bitcoin Can
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January 26, 2017
In a recent interview with the Forbes journalist Trevor Clawson, Richard Muirhead states his
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January 20, 2017
Criticism for UK Government lethargy when it comes to the support of UK tech companies
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January 17, 2017
Yesterday, the PM outlined 12 objectives sought from a proposed "hard Brexit". Of particular interest
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November 24, 2016
"It’s easy to start a tech company within the advertising industry. Finding the people with
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November 8, 2016
“London represent! Continuing to demonstrate its strength as the centre for the UK and European
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November 7, 2016
Faced with rising competition and the unrelenting need to evolve their user experience to match
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October 10, 2016
On Saturday, VentureBeat published a post written by OpenOcean partner, Tom Henriksson, about the emergence of "strong anonymity". Over
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October 7, 2016
Ready for VC funding? Online tool makes assessment simple for startups Free online quiz can
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October 3, 2016
Richard Muirhead, General Partner of London, UK-based OpenOcean Venture Capital, commented on October, 2, 2016’s Article 50
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September 23, 2016
"There is still plenty of money “flying around in Europe” to back solid tech start-up
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September 22, 2016
How will Brexit will affect our technology businesses? Share Radio's Ed Bowsher was joined on
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August 31, 2016
MySQL Phase 1 – Building the Product and User Community Key Innovation 1: Building Great
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June 20, 2016
Last week we compared the 10 largest rounds from the 1st half of 2016 to the
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September 1, 2016
Hello, I’m Juuso Koskinen, the newest member of the OpenOcean Investment Team. I’ll be joining
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March 6, 2014
In November and December 2013, Richard Muirhead at Firestartr led due diligence into Bitstamp Ltd -
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August 16, 2016
Berlin, 15 August 2016 – HeavenHR GmbH, a provider of a free cloud-based HR management
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May 17, 2015
Unacast, the world’s largest network of beacon and proximity data, connecting the physical world to
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June 20, 2016
As Software Seeps Into More Facets of the Enterprise—and into the Cloud–Dataloop.IO’s Next-Generation Monitoring Tools
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June 6, 2016
Company expands its single-source audience measurement solution globally, providing transparent cross-platform measurement to digital media,
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November 11, 2015
OpenOcean is today announcing a €100m* fund to accelerate the growth of Europe’s most successful software companies.
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November 11, 2015
Both Firestartr and OpenOcean have as their purpose to seek and support extraordinary entrepreneurs in
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November 10, 2015
Oppex is the world’s largest database of public bidding contests. Oppex, the Helsinki based startup
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May 7, 2015
Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures invested in OpenOcean Portfolio company EyeEM. EyeEm has created a community of passionate photographers
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April 10, 2015
What are the characteristics of unicorns at the idea stage? When companies start to grow
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September 11, 2014
Verto Analytics, a pioneer in digital media measurement services, today announced additional funding of $2.4M
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August 1, 2014
TapDaq is a community-driven marketing network for mobile apps. Founder Ted Nash has been creating