Patrik Backman

General Partner, CEO and Co-founder at OpenOcean, MariaDB Co-Founder

📍 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 Finland
19
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Aug 2025
Minerva is transforming how organizations navigate public procurement across the European Union. We leverage advanced Artificial Intelligence to automate, optimize, and simplify the entire tender process, making it faster, smarter, and more efficient for our clients. Our innovative platform cuts through complexity, helping businesses and public sector entities identify relevant opportunities, prepare bids with precision, and ensure full compliance with EU regulations. With Minerva, you gain a competitive edge, reduce administrative burden, and secure valuable contracts with confidence. Join us in pioneering the future of public tenders in Europe.
Board Observer
Mar 2025
Bitrise is a mobile DevOps platform build around industry-leading mobile CI/CD and DevOps tooling. Bitrise ensures confidence, velocity, and continuous improvement across the entire cycle of app value creation, delivery, and realization. On Bitrise, teams easily release and maintain high-quality apps through automation, rapid iteration, and improvement in the development process. As a result, apps deliver more impact for the business, while teams scale quickly and efficiently. Founded by mobile developers, Bitrise is trusted by more than 6,000 mobile product organizations worldwide, including Rakuten, WISE, Bose, Virgin Mobile, Grindr, Compass, Mozilla, Philips Hue, and Marks & Spencer. Bitrise now counts 200+ people across continents, and has raised close to $100M in funding to date from investors like Insights Partners, Partech, Y Combinator, and more.
Board Member
Feb 2025
Binalyze is an innovator in Investigation and Response Automation. With evidence collected, our Timeline, Triage, and Drone features help you to collaborate and complete incident response investigations quickly and dramatically reduce dwell time. AIR saves you time, reduces cybersecurity operational costs, and helps you prevent the financial and reputational losses associated with cyber attacks.
Investor
Jan 2024
Authologic bridges the gap between traditional KYC and the future of digital identity verification. Our innovative eID Hub empowers regulated businesses to transform their customer onboarding, and more. We simplify the complex world of identity checks by aggregating and orchestrating diverse methods – including government-issued eIDs, wallets and traditional document verification – through a single, powerful API. This allows businesses to reduce fraud, boost conversion rates, ensure global compliance, and enhance operational efficiency. Choose Authologic for a resilient, frictionless, and secure eID Hub, that scales with your KYC needs and delights your customers.
Board Member
Sep 2022
Deliver high-quality videos directly from your website, software, or app. api.video is an API-first platform that enables product builders to integrate video in their own apps and platforms in minutes, with just a few lines of code. The service handles the end-to-end workflow, from video ingestion to worldwide video delivery.
Board Member
Mar 2022
Strong Network delivers a self-hosted platform that allows organizations to manage the first secure Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). They use secure CDEs to provide access to their developers to ready-to-code linux development environments with native data security. CDEs are spurring the fastest DevOps transformation trend today with the entire cloud-native development effort moving to this technology. They also recently became a new Gartner technology category where Strong Network is recognized as one of the vendors. Strong Network’s CDE platform delivers business benefits by: - Accelerating application delivery by improving developer experience and making development more productive - Reducing IT costs and management inefficiencies around development environments with standardization and centralization - Protecting intellectual property (PII, GDPR-sensitive, source code, ML models, etc) that is used and created during development
Board Member
Nov 2021
Surglogs streamlines administration of logbooks, medications, supplies, in-services and drills in surgery centers.
Board Observer
May 2021
Fintech
Board Member
Apr 2021
Det er på tide med innovasjon i restaurantbransjen! Favrit er det raskeste, mest fleksible, smarteste og enkleste kassesystemet. Vi bidrar til å øke lønnsomheten og gjesteopplevelsen. Bli med på reisen!
Member Of The Investor Board
Apr 2020
MindsDB is a California-based AI company that helps enterprise organizations build AI solutions seamlessly integrated with their data. Its revolutionary system, called Minds, provides a private, turnkey, easy-to-use AI development platform for companies even without deep AI or machine learning expertise.
Board Member
Oct 2017
Supermetrics helps over 750k marketers and analysts move data from popular marketing and ad platforms like Facebook, Google, and HubSpot to their favorite analytics, reporting, and data warehouse platforms. Over 15% of global ad spend is reported through Supermetrics.
Board Member
Dec 2016
From empowering entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, to supporting their clients to arrange me time moments, we’re in the business of elevating people - helping them to thrive and feel fantastic. Lifting others up can be hard, heavy work, and we passionately believe that the sense of purpose and personal satisfaction this brings are worth it. What started in Poland is now an international, cloud-based marketplace that’s scaling quickly. We bring together entrepreneurs in the beauty, health and wellness industry with their customers on a product that connects creative communities and opens up worlds of opportunities.
Board Member
Jul 2014
Tapdaq helps app developers maximise their revenue with unbiased ad mediation, and retain their most valuable users through powerful cross promotion.
Board Member
May 2014
Import.io unlocks a world of web data, delivering it directly to enterprises to fuel business insight and competitive advantage. The Import.io highly scalable web data platform and services extracts, prepares, and integrates high-quality comprehensive web data into customers’ analytics platforms and business applications. The company delivers data to over 800 enterprise customers from millions of web sources. Headquartered in San Antonio, TX, Import.io maintains offices in London, UK and Bangalore, India. Import.io was founded in 2012. For more information, visit www.import.io.
Board Member
Apr 2014
SAP Build Apps (the evolution of SAP AppGyver) provides an intuitive no-code development environment to empower business users and developers to visually create data models, business logic, and pixel-perfect user interfaces without writing code.​ On this page, you'll find news on releases, events, best practices, and enablement resources. Join us and share your no-code journey with experts and peers!
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2025
Investor
Aug 2025
Minerva is transforming how organizations navigate public procurement across the European Union. We leverage advanced Artificial Intelligence to automate, optimize, and simplify the entire tender process, making it faster, smarter, and more efficient for our clients. Our innovative platform cuts through complexity, helping businesses and public sector entities identify relevant opportunities, prepare bids with precision, and ensure full compliance with EU regulations. With Minerva, you gain a competitive edge, reduce administrative burden, and secure valuable contracts with confidence. Join us in pioneering the future of public tenders in Europe.
Board Observer
Mar 2025
Bitrise is a mobile DevOps platform build around industry-leading mobile CI/CD and DevOps tooling. Bitrise ensures confidence, velocity, and continuous improvement across the entire cycle of app value creation, delivery, and realization. On Bitrise, teams easily release and maintain high-quality apps through automation, rapid iteration, and improvement in the development process. As a result, apps deliver more impact for the business, while teams scale quickly and efficiently. Founded by mobile developers, Bitrise is trusted by more than 6,000 mobile product organizations worldwide, including Rakuten, WISE, Bose, Virgin Mobile, Grindr, Compass, Mozilla, Philips Hue, and Marks & Spencer. Bitrise now counts 200+ people across continents, and has raised close to $100M in funding to date from investors like Insights Partners, Partech, Y Combinator, and more.
Board Member
Feb 2025
Binalyze is an innovator in Investigation and Response Automation. With evidence collected, our Timeline, Triage, and Drone features help you to collaborate and complete incident response investigations quickly and dramatically reduce dwell time. AIR saves you time, reduces cybersecurity operational costs, and helps you prevent the financial and reputational losses associated with cyber attacks.
2024
Investor
Jan 2024
Authologic bridges the gap between traditional KYC and the future of digital identity verification. Our innovative eID Hub empowers regulated businesses to transform their customer onboarding, and more. We simplify the complex world of identity checks by aggregating and orchestrating diverse methods – including government-issued eIDs, wallets and traditional document verification – through a single, powerful API. This allows businesses to reduce fraud, boost conversion rates, ensure global compliance, and enhance operational efficiency. Choose Authologic for a resilient, frictionless, and secure eID Hub, that scales with your KYC needs and delights your customers.
2022
Board Member
Sep 2022
Deliver high-quality videos directly from your website, software, or app. api.video is an API-first platform that enables product builders to integrate video in their own apps and platforms in minutes, with just a few lines of code. The service handles the end-to-end workflow, from video ingestion to worldwide video delivery.
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