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Tony Nysten

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Having a degree in Engineering Physics and Mathematics, much of Tony’s career has revolved around numbers and data. Tony joined OpenOcean from Tesi, having worked with later stage venture investments into disruptive tech companies. In the five years he was involved in investments into eg. Iceye, Nosto Solutions, Wirepas, ONEiO and Oura and served as a Board Observer in Swappie, IQM, Zervant, Verto Analytics, Vaadin and Enevo. Before that Tony worked in Nokia’s CFO office doing financial planning, investor relations, treasury and a stint at NGP Capital.

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Three things the State of Quantum 2026 report tells an early-stage investor

The State of Quantum 2026 report shows quantum computing maturing into a real market. For investors, the biggest opportunities lie in enabling infrastructure today and commercial adoption tomorrow.
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Why are we still building development teams like it’s 2020?

Twenty-five years ago, I could have written that same sentence and replaced “AI” with “the Web,” and forty years ago, “the personal computer.” This is not an article about needing to use Claude or other agentic AI tools; that is something you should be doing already. In this case, I’m talking about a fundamental restructuring of how software gets built and deployed.
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Portfolio spotlight: Dreamfold

Welcome to our portfolio spotlight series, where we highlight the teams behind some of the most ambitious technical companies. A company is only as strong as the people behind it, which is why we share the stories of the teams driving these disruptive innovations.