| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.04.2025 | Europe’s AI Revolution: Small Models, Big Dreams | The landscape of artificial intelligence is shifting. Europe is at a crossroads, where innovation meets necessity. As the world races toward larger and more complex AI models, European startups are carving a different path. They are embraci... |
| 07.04.2025 | Why European AI Startups are Skipping Traditional Funding Stages | Central and Eastern Europe ~
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As artificial intelligence accelerates the pace at which new tech products can be developed and tested, a growing number of European startups are bypassing traditional venture stages and leaping straigh... |
| 12.12.2024 | Embedded analytics startup Embeddable raises €6M in seed funding
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| 12.12.2024 | Embeddable raises €6M Seed for advanced embedded analytics platform | Developer tool Embeddable has raised €6 million Seed funding.
As the software industry continues to grow and demand for, and the cost of, engineering talent rises, businesses are increasingly turning to embedded analytics tools to deliver i... |
| 23.10.2024 | The Future of Identity Verification: Authologic's $8.2M Leap Forward | In a world where digital interactions are the norm, the need for secure identity verification has never been more pressing. Authologic, a Warsaw-based company, has just raised $8.2 million in Series A funding to tackle this challenge head-o... |
| 22.10.2024 | Authologic raises $8.2M for unified e-ID verification platform | Today, Authologic, a global digital identity verification platform that streamlines KYC and AML processes with secure e-ID solutions, announced it has raised $8.2 million Series A.
Authologic addresses the critical flaw in legacy KYC system... |
| 22.10.2024 | Polish Y Combinator Alumni Secure Series A to Establish Global e-ID Hub | Warsaw, Poland ~
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Polish-founded Authologic specializing in orchestration and aggregation layer for local KYC & AML methods secured $8.2 million (7.6 million euros)
Authologic’s Series A funding round was led by Op... |
| 17.10.2024 | Cambri Raises Another €8M in Funding | Cambri, a Helsinki, Finland-based provider of an AI consumer insights and innovation platform, raised another €8M in funding.
The round was led by Octopus Ventures and S4S Ventures joined existing investors OpenOcean, Spintop Ventures and T... |
| 03.07.2024 | Что такое «ИИ-пиар» и почему это проблема? | В этом году Amazon столкнулась с критикой в адрес технологии Just Walk Out, установленной в ее физических магазинах. Предполагалось, что покупатель может зайти в одну из точек Amazon Fresh или Amazon Go, выбрать товар и просто уйти. Система... |
| 31.05.2024 | Vestbee announces Summer Pitch CEE | Vestbee
, European platform for startups, VC funds, accelerators, and corporates, has just launched a new program, Vestbee Summer Pitch CEE
, which connects startups from Central and Eastern Europe with global investors.
With Summer Pitch C... |
| 02.02.2024 | VCs need to return cash to their investors. The secondary market is coming alive as a result. | Premium Tech VCs need to return cash to their investors. The secondary market is coming alive as a result.
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| 30.01.2024 | Investment in quantum startups down by 50 percent but interest remains strong | A new report shows a 50 percent global drop in venture capital invested into quantum startups from $2.2 billion in 2022 to around $1.2 billion in 2023. The US saw an even bigger decline at 80 percent, while Europe, the Middle East and Afric... |
| 13.12.2023 | Ekaterina Almasque of OpenOcean on the Big AI Disruption and Why CEE Is Hot on the Radar of European VCs | Company:
Ekaterina Almasque is a general partner at OpenOcean, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki. They have created technology leaders like MySQL, TrueCaller, G... |
| 01.11.2023 | UK AI Summit: What It Is, Who’s Going, and What the Tech Industry Wants | It’s almost one year to the date that ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, was officially unveiled to the world by tech company OpenAI. The tool — which has since been further improved — represented a significant turning po... |
| 29.10.2023 | Exploring 2023 Automation Market Map: OpenOcean’s 13 New Unicorns | Private Investment in Enterprise Automation Outpaces 2022, Europe Trails the US: Latest Insights
OpenOcean, a prominent European software and deep technology Venture Capital (VC) firm, has revealed thirteen nascent unicorns, denoting compa... |
| 24.10.2023 | OpenOcean releases 2023 edition of automation market map, spotlights $13.5B raised by sector in H1 2023 | Helsinki and London-based VC firm OpenOcean has updated its automation market map, adding over 100 companies from the year prior. The firm curates a collection of over 810 automation companies, each valued at over $100 million, but also inc... |
| 13.09.2023 | Estonian startup Binalyze raises $19M in Series A funding | Estonian startup Binalyze raises $19M in Series A funding
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| 09.08.2023 | How can Europe create a thriving deep tech economy? | Europe possesses tremendous potential in the field of deep tech. Boston Consulting Group reports that European deep-tech investment has grown by approximately 50 percent annually since 2015. It stands as one of Europe's most promising areas... |
| 11.06.2023 | Trust in data: How start-ups can thrive in the data economy | Data is crucial in today's tech-driven world, with enterprises prioritizing its use in all aspects of their operations. A recent survey shows that 83 percent of CEOs want their organizations to be data-driven. However, the same survey found... |
| 14.05.2023 | Listing In London Is To Get Simpler But Is Streamlined Regulation enough To Attract Tech Scaleups? | Yoko Spirig, CEO and co-founder Ledgy says founders may find it difficult to pivot to quarterly ... [+] reportingLedgy |
| 29.03.2023 | Finnish VC OpenOcean joins a €27M Series B round for Hygraph | Finnish VC OpenOcean joins a €27M Series B round for Hygraph
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German SaaS startup Hygraph has raised over €27 ... |
| 07.02.2023 | All Change: Where Next For The U.K. Tech Ecosystem As Its Greatest Cheerleader Bows Out? | Gerard Grech, CEO of Tech NationTech Nation |
| 01.02.2023 | Tech Nation forced to close after losing funding to Barclays | Tech Nation, the UK industry body set up in 2014 to support tech entrepreneurs in scaling up their businesses, has announced that it will be forced to close following the UK government's decision to withdraw crucial funding.
The announcemen... |
| 07.01.2023 | Implementing automation? Plan for the long-term | It is now widely understood that automation can offer huge benefits to the business world. And yet, for every story of a company successfully leveraging automation to streamline its operations and boost productivity, there seems to be anoth... |
| 19.12.2022 | Cloud relational database company MariaDB lands on New York Stock Exchange | Ireland/California-based cloud database company MariaDB has finalised its public listing on the New York Stock Exchange through its merger with the SPAC vehicle Angel Pond Holdings, to be renamed MariaDB.
The merger was first announced in F... |
| 26.10.2022 | LatticeFlow raises $12M to fix AI data and model errors | |
| 20.10.2022 | OpenOcean updates its interactive market map for automation, adding 600+ companies | In early 2021 we published the first version of the OpenOcean Interactive Market Map for Automation. We knew the content was of value, but we didn’t quite anticipate the landslide of interest our pet project received. A lot has changed in t... |
| 04.02.2022 | Speed is of the essence as cybersecurity startup Binalyze raises $10 million | With cybercrime statistics causing enterprises to jump faster than a cat on a hot tin roof, equally, we’ve seen a number of startups springing to their defenses. And so is the case with Estonia’s entry, Binalyze.
The company specialises in ... |
| 04.02.2022 | Binalyze, Estonian enterprise forensics platform, secures €9.1M seed investment | Binalyze, Estonian enterprise forensics platform, secures €9.1M seed investment
04 February, 2022, 15:03
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| 04.02.2022 | Estonian enterprise forensics platform Binalyze secures €8.7M seed investment | Estonian enterprise forensics platform Binalyze secures €8.7M seed investment
04 February, 2022, 15:03
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Tallinn-based Binalyze has secured €8.7 million in a seed round to help companies deal with cybersecurity threats.... |
| 07.11.2021 | MindsDB wants to give enterprise databases a brain | Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here.
Databases are the cornerstone of most modern business applications, be it for managing payroll, tracking customer orders, or storing and retrieving just about a... |
| 07.11.2021 | MindsDB wants to give enterprise databases a brain | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open... |
| 22.07.2021 | Content management platform GraphCMS raises $10 million, liberates siloed data | Addressing a key challenge in data-driven industries, effective data extraction from third-party systems, Berlin-based GraphCMS has raised $10 million in a new funding round. The startups’ solution cuts out the middleware and connects siloe... |
| 28.06.2021 | The New Style of Startup Vision: Smaller But Sharper? | Startup tech businesses used to land on the scene with big ideas about how their tech could change the world.
Facebook, for example, decided in 2008 that its mission was to “help you connect and share with the people in your life.” The visi... |
| 02.06.2021 | Helsinki’s e-commerce platform Nosto acquires US-based content marketing firm Stackla | Helsinki-based e-commerce platform Nosto has acquired content marketing startup Stackla. This marks Nosto’s first acquisition and provides a strong entrance into the Australian and Southeast Asian markets. To date, Nosto has raised $32.8 mi... |
| 21.03.2021 | SaaS startup Cambri Secures €3.6M | Cambri, a Nordic-based market research automation and SaaS startup that accelerates product and concept testing of consumer brands, has announced a €3.6M series A funding round jointly led by OpenOcean and Spintop Ventures.
The leap forward... |
| 11.03.2021 | Helsinki-based market research automation firm Cambri raises €3.6 million in Series-A | Finnish SaaS startup Cambri has recently raised €3.6 million in Series-A round led jointly by OpenOcean and Spintop Ventures.
Founded by Dr. Heli Holttinen, Dr. Outi Somervuori, and Dani Kamras, Cambri enables brands to rapidly iterate, opt... |
| 15.02.2021 | Noi finanțări de 3-5 milioane Euro pentru startup-uri IT europene, printr-un fond susținut de Uniunea Europeană | Startup-urile IT europene vor putea obține noi finanțări de capital de risc de 3-5 milioane de euro, printr-un fond de investiții lansat, zilele trecute, de antreprenori și investitori cu experiență în proiecte ca MariaDB și MySQL, cu susți... |
| 11.02.2021 | OpenOcean raises £80.7M; appoints new General Partner in London | 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. Ra... |
| 10.02.2021 | Early-stage VC firm OpenOcean raises €92M for third fund; here’s how it plans to deploy this capital | European VC firm OpenOcean, an investor in data solutions and software, has announced a €92M raise for its third main venture fund. According to the VC firm, “new fund will look to invest in Europe’s most exciting and disruptive data busine... |
| 09.02.2021 | Big data VC OpenOcean hits $111.5M for third fund, appoints Ekaterina Almasque to GP | OpenOcean, a European VC which has tended to specialise in big data-oriented startups and deep tech, has reach the €92 million ($111.5 million) mark for its third main venture fund, and is aiming for a final close of €130 million by mid-way... |
| 08.02.2021 | Meet our 20 Rising Stars 3.0 finalists | We are excited to reveal the 20 companies selected as UK Finalists to go through to the Rising Stars Winners Judging Roundtable. Following first-class pitch training from Billy Webber, Jill McKinney and their team from Pitch for Success, ou... |
| 29.04.2020 | AppGyver raises €2 million for its drag-and-drop app creation tools | Today Helsinki-based AppGyver, a software scaleup democratizing professional app development with visual programming tools, has raised €2 million in additional funding jointly-led by Karma Ventures and OpenOcean, with participation from num... |
| 09.07.2019 | IQM Finland raises €11.6 million to speed up advancements in quantum computing | Espoo-based IQM Finland is building scalable cryogenic hardware for general purpose quantum computers. The startup—a spinout from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)—is developing high-speed quantum processor... |
| 27.06.2019 | Tech.eu Podcast #123: Meero’s mega-round, cities against Airbnb, interview with OpenOcean VC, Fiverr experience, and more | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
You ... |
| 20.06.2019 | Budapest-based Bitrise secures $20 million Series B investment | Budapest-based Bitrise founders Barnabás Birmacher, Viktor Benei, Daniel Balla just announced yesterday a $20 million Series B investment, led by Partech and joined by new investor Zobito, with participation of their existing investors Open... |
| 05.10.2017 | NearGroup chatbot startup lands $1.6m Seed round led by OpenOcean | In Arabic, Indian or Eastern cultures where people can’t really have an open dating profile, the traditional Tinder/Happn/Bumble/Badoo etc dating apps don’t work too well as they are based on images. It turns out chat bots may be the way fo... |
| 16.08.2017 | Blockstack announces $25 million fund to rebuild the internet for a blockchain world | Blockchain startup Blockstack is out to build a decentralized version of the internet, where users own their own data and apps live locally on your device. The idea is to free users from security breaches, platform lock-in, and a loss of co... |
| 16.08.2017 | Blockstack announces $25 million fund to rebuild the internet for a blockchain world | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Blockchain startup Blockstack is out to build a d... |
| 03.03.2017 | Appointments booking app Booksy raises $4.2 million Series A round | Poland’s Booksy, an SaaS startup for booking health and beauty services, has raised $4.2 million in a Series A round led by OpenOcean along with German investor Kai Hansen and a number of angel investors.
The app is for any business that re... |
| 03.03.2017 | Booksy Raises $4.2M in Series A Funding | Booksy, a Des Plaines, Illinois-based scheduling software company for appointment-based businesses, completed a $4.2m (£3.4m) Series A funding round.
The round was led by OpenOcean, with participation from Kai Hansen and other European ange... |
| 26.11.2016 | Technology as a force for division — and unification — in politics | Richard Muirhead Contributor
Richard Muirhead is general partner at OpenOcean Venture Capital.
The functions of government outlined in the U.S. Constitution can be broadly broken down into the promotion of unity, justice, peace, defense and... |
| 08.10.2016 | OpenOcean Releases Tool to Determine Startups’ VC Readiness | Venture capital firm OpenOcean has teamed up with portfolio company by Platform.sh, a cloud hosting platform for scalable web application and e-commerce businesses, to create an online tool to assess startups’ funding readiness from a techn... |
| 08.10.2016 | How ‘strong anonymity’ will finally fix the privacy problem | “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” Those are the words of Scott McNealy, founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems, in 1999. Brutally correct then and even more so now. In 2016, individuals in most digitally-connected societies understa... |
| 08.10.2016 | How ‘strong anonymity’ will finally fix the privacy problem | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” Thos... |
| 03.10.2016 | OpenOcean’s Richard Muirhead Comments on Article 50 Deadline | Richard Muirhead, General Partner of London, UK-based OpenOcean Venture Capital, commented on October, 2, 2016’s Article 50 deadline announcement by UK PM Theresa May.
Richard sayd:
“Let the negotiation games begin. This morning’s announcem... |
| 15.08.2016 | HeavenHR Raises €6M in Funding | HeavenHR GmbH, a Berlin, Germany-based provider of a free cloud HR management platform for small and medium enterprises (SME), raised more than €6m in Series A financing round.
The round was led by Target Global and OpenOcean with participa... |
| - | Open-source database software maker MariaDB announces intentions to list on NYSE via SPAC | Finland’s MariaDB has closed a $104 million Series D private placement round and announced its intention to become a publicly-traded entity on the New York Stock Exchange via a merger with Angel Pond Holdings, a method more commonly known a... |
| - | Helsinki’s e-commerce platform Nosto acquires US-based content marketing firm Stackla | Helsinki-based e-commerce platform Nosto has acquired content marketing startup Stackla. This marks Nosto’s first acquisition and provides a strong entrance into the Australian and Southeast Asian markets. To date, Nosto has raised $32.8 mi... |
| - | Hungarian founded, Y Combinator grad Bitrise raises $60 million | Helping mobile organisations get apps to market bigger, faster, and stronger, Hungarian founded Bitrise has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round. The service provides mobile app developers with the ability to automate integration,... |
| - | Content management platform GraphCMS raises $10 million, liberates siloed data | Addressing a key challenge in data-driven industries, effective data extraction from third-party systems, Berlin-based GraphCMS has raised $10 million in a new funding round. The startups’ solution cuts out the middleware and connects siloe... |
| - | Mayfair Equity Partners snaps up majority stake in London's adtech specialist LoopMe for $120 million | London’s Mayfair Equity Partners has acquired a 60% majority stake in LoopMe for $120 million in a deal that provides the adtech with a $200 million valuation. Amongst a host of services on tap, LoopMe specialises in the use of AI and ML te... |
| - | Speed is of the essence as cybersecurity startup Binalyze raises $10 million | With cybercrime statistics causing enterprises to jump faster than a cat on a hot tin roof, equally, we’ve seen a number of startups springing to their defenses. And so is the case with Estonia’s entry, Binalyze.
The company specialises in ... |
