Our Portfolio
Open Ocean is currently active in the following companies:
Mobile Sorcery AB (www.mosync.com) is the developer and provider of MoSync, a development environment to enable easy, fast and cost efficient development of mobile applications across platforms. In MoSync a developer can work on one single codebase for his application, and the tool automatically produces device- and platform-specific installation packages for the hundreds of mobile phone versions that exist on the main mobile platforms (Symbian, Windows Mobile, Java, Android, etc).
IT Mill (www.itmill.com) (2008) is the provider of Vaadin (www.vaadin.com), an open source framework to help design and development top quality modern web applications, that perform and look great. IT Mill offers high-quality planning, implementation and support services for software projects around its product.
WOT Services Oy (www.mywot.com) (2009) is the team behind the Web Security tool WOT (Web Of Trust). Through the browser plugin provided by WOT, users get warned about security threats while surfing on the web. WOT has ratings of over 21 Million websites, and the rating information is based both on secure sources as well as on the input from the WOT users, a community of millions of users.
- Press release
- Monty's blog about the investment
- WOT's blog about the investment
- Download the plugin and start being more safe on the web today!
Ironstar Helsinki (www.moipal.com) (2009) is the provider of the popular online world MoiPal. MoiPal combines social networking between friends with playing with your own virtual friend (called "Pal"). The platform has independently reached over 200.000 registered users, and has recently integrated into Facebook, to allow enhanced social networking capabilities and fun for the user and his Pal.
- Press release
- Monty's blog about the investment
Chat Republic Games (www.chat-republic.com) is an online game developer, which provides massively multiplayer online role-playing games to casual players. This game segment is the fasted growing in the industry, and Chat Republic latest release Superstar Racing (www.superstarracing.net) quickly gathered a playing community with hundreds of thousands of unique players per month, with most of the active players paying for the service.
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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