Ekaterina Almasque

General Partner at OpenOcean

Ekaterina Almasque is a General Partner at OpenOcean, a leading pan-European venture fund investing in early stage frontier B2B software and technologies for the future data-driven economy. Ekaterina focuses on artificial intelligence (AI/ML), quantum computing, data infrastructure and cybersecurity. She is on the board of IQM, Sunlight.io, GraphCMS, Binalyze and Bitrise. Before joining OpenOcean, Ekaterina was a Managing Director at Samsung Catalyst Fund in Europe, Samsung’s multistage investment arm focusing on next generation solutions, such as GraphCore for AI, as well as venture funds. For over 10 years prior to that, Ekaterina was part of several corporate and independent venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and Europe, including EMC and Siemens Venture Capital.