Team news: Yina Ye joins us as an Investment Analyst

We welcome our newest team member Yina, who joins us as an Investment Analyst in Helsinki to support our deal flow scouting and investments in European technology start-ups.

Before OpenOcean, Yina was working as a Growth Manager in an AI-learning startup, leading the marketing automation and other growth projects to drive retention and monetization. She holds a master degree in Computer Science from Helsinki University, with a specialization in Machine Learning. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor in Engineering, Electronic Information Engineering, from Xidian University (China) and received a scholarship as a top performer of the academic year.

Yina, our newest team member

That makes us now a team of 13 people with 30% superwomen and 70% supermen. We represent nationalities across the globe from the US to China and actually quite a bit of Germans, some of us have multiple passports, and together we speak ten languages (Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, German, French, Russian, English, Mandarin, Norwegian, Italian). Although we all look pretty young the team is evenly distributed with about 25% in each age segment of younger than 30, 31–40, 41–50, and older than 50 years.

For us, as an investor, a mix of education, age, personal background, even nationality is crucial to continuously find new deal flow from different networks, and have profound evaluation discussions within the team. Let alone that it never gets boring.

Patrik, Yina, Mike, and Ekaterina (clockwise), investment team members from Helsinki, Amsterdam, and London (excerpt).

I’m happy we live up to our talk and official commitment to provide a diverse, inclusive and harassment-free workplace.

In 2018 OpenOcean joined Paradigm for Parity, as the first VC in a group of now over 100 companies to establish gender equality inside our company. We also joined together with other European VCs the #MovingForward initiative to publicly speak out against discrimination and harassment. See more information here.

You can see our whole team here.

If you want to know more about us as a team and investor, just drop me a line: janina@openocean.vc

You can find further posts on our investment thesis, where we invest in and what drives us, on our Medium blog https://blog.openocean.vc

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