£7.9M
OpenOcean led the Series A financing for Purple Dot to support platform development and market expansion.
OpenOcean
Venture CapitalOpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in frontier technologies across Europe, with offices in London and Helsinki.
Portfolio
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companies
Portfolio companies
Purple Dot
Purple Dot operates a pre-commerce platform that enables brands to sell products before stock arrives at the warehouse.
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PassFort
PassFort builds regulatory technology software that automates compliance and onboarding for financial institutions.
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Sunlight
Sunlight provides edge infrastructure that simplifies running and managing applications at the network edge.
Team
Ekaterina Almasque
General Partner
Ekaterina brings deep tech and B2B investment experience as the managing partner at BlankPage Capital and a former general partner at OpenOcean. She also serves on the boards of several technology companies, including IQM Quantum Computers and Bitrise.
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Sam Hields
Partner
Recent investments
£11.7M
The funding round was led by Level Equity with participation from existing backers and venture debt from Shard Credit Partners.
"We are excited to have secured this substantial new funding so quickly."
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PassFort—London, UK
£4.5M
The Series A round was led by OpenOcean with participation from Robert Bosch Venture Capital to fund commercial expansion.
"Cloud has been instrumental in unlocking greater IT flexibility. The next challenge is supporting the creation and processing of skyrocketing data volumes efficiently. It’s not uncommon to see enterprises hike their infrastructure costs up to 10x for some data-intensive applications when they move to the cloud."