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Venture Capital and Private Equity PrincipalsSouthwest Finland, Finland11-50 Employees
OpenOcean is a pan-European early-stage venture capital investor with offices in Helsinki and London, focusing on Seed and Series A investments in European B2B software companies active in data-driven markets. With 11-50 employees, the firm operates within the venture capital and private equity sector and is based in Helsinki, Finland. The founding team includes individuals previously involved with MySQL AB, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 2008, and with MariaDB, who later formed OpenOcean. OpenOcean emphasizes deep knowledge of technology and software stacks to identify and back early-stage startups with scalable, potentially category-defining solutions, typically supporting initial rounds up to €5 million. Its technology footprint includes a stack comprising Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Google Workspace, jQuery, Slick, Google Maps, Webflow, and Adobe Fonts. In August 2024, the firm expanded its activities by launching a DEX aggregator on Bitcoin L2 Rootstock.