Government funds will save jobs, preserve innovation and deliver returns I have spent more than 25 years hell-bent on building and then backing globally ambitious startups from Europe, often with my brothers Charlie and William. Both of our parents came from Australia and we grew up helping out with their…

Fabric Ventures is excited to back the Messari team in their latest $4M round — official announcement by Messari. Folks forget the legal battles that took place concerning the use, management and development of the Internet to ensure that it could be the neutral global utility, something that nonetheless it…

‘With Great Responsibility Comes Great Power’ The Orchid Privacy Network will be launched this week. As an overlay to the Ethereum blockchain it restores natural levels of access & privacy to the Internet. The OXT token, which is used to purchase VPN services or provide bandwidth, was recently listed on…

The instant we are born, we are unwittingly ‘communicating’ but also inherently under observation. Initially under the loving eyes of our parents, swiftly followed by a medical inspection of the midwife followed by a parade of relatives proudly contemplating the new family member. Humans thrive off observation and meticulous pattern…

[Firestartr, OpenOcean hosted the 4th Spark Series, a debate on crypto-economics, at UBS in central London. You can listen to the podcast from the event here.] We messed up when we built a communist economy with shared ownership of the means of production, and a negation of incentives for free…

For almost 10 years the chatter has been ‘you promised me flying cars and you gave me 140 characters’. Suddenly this shifted to ‘the robots are coming, jobs are vanishing and WTF is happening to democracy’. One part of this is driven by the natural tendency of headline writers to…

“They’re like, ‘Oh my god, this is it. This is the big breakthrough,’” said Marc Andreessen, the co-creator of the first commercial Web browser, Netscape, and a big investor in technology ventures. “This is the distributed trust network that the Internet always needed and never had.” (*1) This collection of…

[OpenOcean held its inaugural Annual CEO Summit on 4 April 2017 in London (at a Modern Art Museum somewhere near Bankside… ) You can find a link to the Summit’s opening slides here.] Back Story I fell out of love with technology. There had been a time in the early eighties when…

A quick intro to OpenOcean OpenOcean is a leading early-stage venture capital fund that invests in outstanding entrepreneurs launching movements to change the world. We invest in software businesses at Series A and support them throughout their entire journey. From companies like MySQL, MariaDB, Orchestream and Automic we have accumulated rich experience in business software…