Welcome to the family!
OpenOcean is excited to introduce two new interns who are joining our London team for the summer.
People matter! The founders we invest in, the investors we partner up with and the team members that make it all happen. That is why we are thrilled to have two newcomers join our ranks for the summer, and bring in their fresh outlook, energy, and reckless ideas. They have only been with us for a week, and we can’t keep up!
Rahul, Alex, welcome to the family!
Rahul is an incoming senior at Stanford University, studying Symbolic Systems. He has a background in venture capital, having interned at Global Silicon Valley and Highland Capital Partners in the United States, as well as product management, having interned at Salesforce. He is an avid writer — he helped publish a handbook on the top entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world and worked with Stanford professor Tom Byers to update the newest edition of the entrepreneurship textbook Technology Ventures. At OpenOcean, he hopes to gain a better understanding of the European tech scene. He’ll be doing a deep dive into microservices, DevOps and the future of the serverless cloud, as well as profiling founders for the OpenOcean blog. In his personal life, Rahul has a music blog, enjoys shooting film photography, and supports the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. You can reach out and say hello at rahul@openocean.vc
Alex is entering his final year at Warwick University, studying Mathematics. He has a diverse background that brings together finance and startups: he interned at Morgan Stanley and was the president of Warwick’s Banking and Finance Society, while also holding a summer internship at an edtech start-up in London. Later this year, he will join Google for an internship at their Innovation Center in Wroclaw, Poland. At OpenOcean, Alex will be researching the machine learning space and work on automating and streamlining the firm’s due diligence process. In his free time, Alex has a deep passion for electronic music — he co-founded an event and music company called Access, which began organizing events with DJs and students at Warwick, before recently expanding to London and Hong Kong. He also enjoys traveling, freshly returning from a road trip around Europe that started in Berlin and ended at a music festival in Barcelona. Drop him a message at alex@openocean.vc
