Open Ocean - The Company
Open Ocean is a venture capital company investing into disruptive technology start ups and helping them to success.
We consider investments in the Nordic region, Baltics and even in the rest of Europe and worldwide - if the match is right.
Open Ocean was the first major investor of MySQL AB, which was sold to Sun Microsystems for 1 B USD in 2008. Open Ocean is backed by the MySQL AB Founder Michael "Monty" Widenius and his family.
Our key strength is our insight in global software and Internet industry, expanding and leveraging open source and large user communities, and knowing how to grow from a small local European company to a Worldwide operation.
We want to invest in operations we understand, and into companies where we believe we significantly can contribute to the growth and success.
We seek to be an active owner in the companies we invest in, and provide hands-on support to the management of the Company.
Frequently Asked Questions
Praveen Kumar: Do you guys only invest in european companies? Thanks!! (Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano also asked a similar question)
Hi Praveen (and Marcel)! We can consider investments anywhere in the ...
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Reviewing a Business Case
We get repeatedly asked, what do we look for in a company that comes to us for funding and business growth assistance? The simplified summary is the following.
MoreMoiPal, making it more fun to learn things
It's really a hard job to decide into which companies to invest. We at Open Ocean have talked with around 60 companies the last few months to find those that we think have a great potential and that would benefit from our involvement.
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