# Ekaterina Almasque

> Ekaterina Almasque is a Series A investor at OpenOcean backing Information Technology. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OpenOcean](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/open-ocean)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katya-almasque-vc/

Ekaterina Almasque is a Series A investor at OpenOcean in London focused on Information Technology and Software. Ekaterina (Katya) Almasque is a Venture Partner at OpenOcean and she leads the London Team and Operations. Before joining OpenOcean, Katya was a Managing Director of the Samsung Catalyst Fund in Europe, Samsung’s Electronics $500M venture capital multistage investment fund focused on core technology areas including robotics, autonomous driving,artificial intelligence, digital health, data infrastructure and device level technologies. She led investments across Europe in leading companies such as GraphCore, Mapillary, AIMotive, Sentiance and Quobyte, as well as several venture funds.For over ten years prior to that, Katya was part of several corporate and independent venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and Europe, including EMC and Siemens Venture Capital. Additionally she was a founding partner of a global private equity advisory firm specializing in high-tech growth companies with $1B+ markets in the technology and environmental sectors, where she led investments in the US, Brazil, and Europe.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 4 | 29% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| CMS | 2 | 14% |
| Content | 2 | 14% |
| Content Creators | 2 | 14% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 43% |
| Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 14% |
| Estonia | 1 | 7% |
| Finland | 1 | 7% |
| Hungary | 1 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Binalyze | Automated Investigation and Response Platform Powered by Digital Forensics | $19M | Series A | Sep 12, 2023 | https://binalyze.com |
| Hygraph | GraphCMS is the enterprise-class content management platform that enables ambitious digital products at scale. With the industry's most versatile GraphQL content APIs and a novel approach in external data sourcing, the content platform enables ambitious use cases. Enterprise customers see GraphCMS as a database highly optimized for structuredcontent while giving content creators the tools to build their ultimate content pipeline. GraphCMS is developed by GraphCMS GmbH, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and is currently enabling nearly 50,000 teams across the world to rapidly build and deliver tomorrow’s omnichannel digital experiences at scale. | $30M | Series B | Mar 29, 2023 | https://hygraph.com/ |
| Sunlight.Io | Sunlight makes performance possible anywhere - from the cloud to the edge. Demanding applications like AI, Big Data, Analytics and Rendering run 3x faster on Sunlight compared to legacy virtualisation, and because Sunlight has a tiny footprint - it’s perfect for the edge. Enterprises and MSPs use Sunlight to cut the costs of delivering highperformance IT by 70%.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. |  | Series A | Jan 26, 2023 | https://www.sunlight.io/ |
| LatticeFlow | LatticeFlow is empowering organizations to build and deploy robust AI they can understand and trust. | $12M | Series A | Oct 26, 2022 | https://latticeflow.ai/ |
| IQM Quantum Computers | IQM Quantum Computers builds and delivers superconducting full-stack quantum computer systems and cloud services designed for research institutions and developers. It offers several products including Spark, a compact 5-qubit system for academic use, Radiance, a scalable platform with configurations from 20 to 150 qubits, and Resonance, a managedcloud service that provides high-fidelity quantum processors with tools, algorithm libraries, and pulse-level programmability. The company develops hardware topologies such as Crystal and Star, which enhance connectivity and aim to support error-corrected, fault-tolerant computing through the integration of quantum error-correction codes. In addition, IQM provides developer-focused resources such as SDKs, multi-framework compatibility, and educational programs to facilitate quantum algorithm experimentation. | $130.7M | Series A | Jul 22, 2022 | https://www.meetiqm.com/ |
| Binalyze | Automated Investigation and Response Platform Powered by Digital Forensics | $10M | Seed | Feb 04, 2022 | https://binalyze.com |
| Bitrise | Bitrise is a platform for mobile app development, enabling tens of thousands of developers to automate integration, testing, and deployment. Through 200+ integrations with the services developers know and love, Bitrise frees up developers to iterate and improve their workflows for ever faster and better results. It offers more than 300 steps andintegrations to easily connect the processes and services you use in your mobile development workflows.With tens of thousands of developers and customers spanning unicorn startups (Careem, Traveloka) to established enterprise companies (Virgin, TNT), Bitrise is the defacto standard for mobile CI/CD and automation. | $60M | Series C | Nov 15, 2021 | https://www.bitrise.io/ |
| Hygraph | GraphCMS is the enterprise-class content management platform that enables ambitious digital products at scale. With the industry's most versatile GraphQL content APIs and a novel approach in external data sourcing, the content platform enables ambitious use cases. Enterprise customers see GraphCMS as a database highly optimized for structuredcontent while giving content creators the tools to build their ultimate content pipeline. GraphCMS is developed by GraphCMS GmbH, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and is currently enabling nearly 50,000 teams across the world to rapidly build and deliver tomorrow’s omnichannel digital experiences at scale. | $8.9M | Series A | Jul 22, 2021 | https://graphcms.com/ |
| Hygraph | GraphCMS is the enterprise-class content management platform that enables ambitious digital products at scale. With the industry's most versatile GraphQL content APIs and a novel approach in external data sourcing, the content platform enables ambitious use cases. Enterprise customers see GraphCMS as a database highly optimized for structuredcontent while giving content creators the tools to build their ultimate content pipeline. GraphCMS is developed by GraphCMS GmbH, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and is currently enabling nearly 50,000 teams across the world to rapidly build and deliver tomorrow’s omnichannel digital experiences at scale. | $9.9M | Series A | Jul 22, 2021 | https://hygraph.com/ |
| Sunlight.Io | Sunlight makes performance possible anywhere - from the cloud to the edge. Demanding applications like AI, Big Data, Analytics and Rendering run 3x faster on Sunlight compared to legacy virtualisation, and because Sunlight has a tiny footprint - it’s perfect for the edge. Enterprises and MSPs use Sunlight to cut the costs of delivering highperformance IT by 70%.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. | $6M | Series A | Dec 08, 2020 | https://www.sunlight.io/ |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Earlybird Digital East Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-digital-east-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Maki.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maki-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Peak](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peak-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tesi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tesi) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Citi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About OpenOcean

VC Fund · Helsinki, Finland

OpenOcean is a thesis driven pan-European early-stage Venture Capital investor with offices in Helsinki and London. Our investment strategy focuses on leading or co-leading Series A investments in European companies driving the data economy with a focus on B2B platforms and Enterprise Software technology. Our investments are driven by three coretheses: Automation, Data Infrastructure and Future of Software Development, with initial average investment sizes of €5m. ‍ Our founding team members include key persons behind MySQL AB (sold to Sun Microsystems Inc. for $1 Billion in 2008), after which the team jointly built category leader MariaDB Corporation Ab, as well as forming and managing OpenOcean. Our DNA is rooted in having a deep understanding of the underlying technology and software stacks, which drive the growth of innovative new digital platforms and services. Our strong technical background and expertise allows us to identify and invest in the next game-changing and category winning start-tups at the early-stages, whose unique solutions can be rapidly scaled and adopted globally.

5 contacts available at OpenOcean.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Naureen Zahid | Investor Relations Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/naureen-zahid |
| Patrik Backman | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrik-backman |
| Ralf Wahlsten | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ralf-wahlsten |
| Tom Henriksson | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-henriksson |
| Tony Nysten | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-nysten |

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## FAQ

### What does Ekaterina Almasque invest in?

Ekaterina Almasque invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and CMS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Ekaterina Almasque last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ekaterina Almasque closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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