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OPENOCEAN RAISES £80.7M; APPOINTS NEW GENERAL PARTNER IN LONDON

Image credits: OpenOcean

Helsinki-based OpenOcean is the pioneering venture capital investor in data
solutions and software. Now, the VC firm has announced another fundraising to
back European startups that remove bottlenecks in building the future data
economy.




RAISES THIRD VENTURE FUND

Data ecosystems pioneer OpenOcean announced a €92M (nearly £80.7M) raise for its
third main venture fund. The new fund will be used to invest in Europe’s most
exciting and disruptive data businesses as mentioned above. LPs in the new fund
include European Investment Fund, Tesi, Fund of Fund Growth (pension funds),
further institutions, major family offices, and Oxford University’s Corpus
Christi College.

Fund 2020 is the third main institutional fund from OpenOcean following €45M
(nearly £39.5M) and €80M (nearly £70M) funds secured in 2011 and 2015
respectively. Furthermore, a final close of €130M (nearly £114M) is expected to
be closed in H1 2021.

This fund will focus on the Series A initial investments of €3M (nearly £2.6M)
to €5M (nearly £4.4M) across OpenOcean’s core target areas of Artificial
Intelligence, application-driven data infrastructure, intelligent automation,
and open source.

Nicholas Melhuish, Bursar at Oxford University’s Corpus Christi College, and
David Bloch, Chair of its Endowment Investment Committee, commented: “We were
impressed with OpenOcean’s history as founders and investors, its commitment to
limited partners, and the team’s record of success identifying extraordinary
early-stage companies and helping them scale faster and farther. We believe
OpenOcean’s focus on mass data management, application-driven data
infrastructure, and platform enablers for digitalization will be rewarding in
the long-term. We look forward to a mutually successful collaboration.”

Tom Henriksson, General Partner at OpenOcean, said: “We’re thrilled to have
welcomed Ekaterina as a General Partner to the OpenOcean family as we launched
this new fund. She brings an immense amount of expertise to the team and
exemplifies the way we want to support our founders. Fund 2020 is an important
step for OpenOcean, with prestigious LPs trusting our approach and our
knowledge, and believing in our ability to identify the very best data solutions
and infrastructure technologies in Europe.”




APPOINTS NEW GENERAL PARTNER

To accelerate its investments in AI, data/cloud infrastructure, and new
frontiers such as quantum computing, OpenOcean appointed Ekaterina Almasque as
General Partner. Already, she has already led investments in IQM and Sunrise.io
and is leading the London team and operations for the firm.

Previously, Almasque was a Managing Director at Samsung Catalyst Fund in Europe,
where she successfully led investments in strategic and cutting-edge
technologies such as Graphcore’s processor for Artificial Intelligence,
Mapillary’s layer for rapid mapping and AIMotive’s autonomous driving stack.

Ekaterina Almasque, General Partner at OpenOcean, said: “The next five years
will be critical for digital infrastructure, as breakthrough technologies are
currently being constrained by the capabilities of the stack. Enabling this next
level of infrastructure innovation is crucial to realising digitisation projects
across the economy and will determine what the internet of the future looks
like. We’re excited by the potential of world-leading businesses being built
across Europe and are looking forward to supporting the next generation of
software leaders.”


INVESTS IN BIG DATA ANALYTICS SOFTWARE COMPANIES

OpenOcean’s team comprises Michael “Monty” Widenius, Ralf Wahlsten, Patrik
Backman, and Tom Henriksson building and investing in MySQL and MariaDB. one of
the first technology unicorns from Europe. Since 2011, OpenOcean remains as one
of the first VCs in Europe to invest in Big Data analytics software (Import.io,
RapidMiner), identity management (TrueCaller), automation (Supermetrics,
AppGyver) and DevOps (Bitrise).

OpenOceans’ have invested in several UK-based companies including Cambridge
based Sunlight which scored £4.3M funding in December 2020.




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