Ralf Wahlsten

Partner at OpenOcean

📍 Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
Angel investor🌍 Finland
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2015
Our goal is make Linux speak Microsoft through perfect native interoperability, improving all mixed IT environments in the world. We have started realizing this goal by offering native interoperability on the most used business services: Exchange and Active Directory. With our products Zinc and Zentyal Server we already offer this interoperability to thousands of companies and organizations all over the world. And we will continue to expand, improve and innovate to reach the goal of perfect interoperability and world-wide adoption.
Member of the Board
Dec 2012
Nordic Telecom, headquartered in Helsinki, is a privately held company operating internationally. We have 14 employees and operations in Spain, Estonia, Germany, and Sweden. We offer an easy-to-use call management system, which helps you do right things at the right time. It’s the missing piece between a service provider and a customer. In addition to improving customer satisfaction and the possibility of additional sales, our system eliminates queuing, increases customer retention and saves missed calls. Our service is ideal for sectors, where customer contacts are golden and good customer service is a priority. Finnish Service Innovation From their customers’ perspective, our customer companies increase their value by offering a better customer service experience. Our customer companies are able to identify peak hours and make sure all customers get expert service. Reports enable our customers to ensure employee efficiency and commercial value. Customer service and customer satisfaction are improved, which means the possibility of additional sales is multiplied. According to the feedback we’ve received, our customers have seen a significant increase in both customer satisfaction and sales since introducing our service. This is a true Finnish service innovation. Our Solution NTC service portal allows our customer companies to retrieve all missed calls easily and in real time. Our solution registers all customer contacts, and provides the staff with the they tools need to efficiently serve their customers. Management receives detailed reports of unanswered calls, commercial success of call-backs, and the effectiveness of sales and customer service. Our service requires no investments or additional hardware. It’s compatible with all up-to-date IT and phone systems and all mobile devices and computers. Our service is independent of operators, and requires no changes to existing phone numbers.
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Jun 2010
MariaDB is a new generation cloud database company whose products are used by companies big and small, reaching more than a billion users through Linux distributions and have been downloaded over one billion times. Deployed in minutes and maintained with ease, leveraging cloud automation, our database products are engineered to support any workload, any cloud and any scale – all while saving up to 90% of proprietary database costs. Trusted by organizations such as Bandwidth, DigiCert, InfoArmor, Oppenheimer, Samsung, SelectQuote and SpendHQ, MariaDB’s software is the backbone of critical services that people rely on every day. Learn more at mariadb.com.
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2010
WOT Services Ltd. develops and promotes the website reputation and review service Web of Trust (WOT). The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Web of Trust (WOT) WOT is a website reputation and review service that helps people make informed decisions about whether to trust a website or not. WOT is based on a unique crowdsourcing approach that collects ratings and reviews from a global community of millions of users who rate and comment on websites. This approach enables WOT to protect you against threats that only the human eye can spot such as scams, unreliable web stores or questionable content. WOT is based on a patented system where user behavior is systematically analyzed and monitored to ensure the ratings are reliable and constantly updated. Third party sources are also used to increase the accuracy of the website ratings, such as blacklists of phishing sites. WOT works in a very simple way - it shows website reputations as traffic lights next to search engine results or next to urls. By clicking the traffic light icons you can find out more information about a website’s reputation and other users’ opinions. Today, WOT is the world’s leading crowdsourced website reputation service with over 140 million downloads worldwide and collaborates with the world’s leading Internet companies such as Facebook and the Mail.Ru Group. The WOT browser add-on works with all popular browsers. To learn more about WOT and the MyWOT community, please visit https://www.mywot.com/
Member of the Board
2007
Beddit creates ambient technology to solve sleep. Sleep is the Bedrock of life. We all sleep, every day. If we don’t sleep well, many aspects of our life are impacted. At Beddit we focus on sleep, because when sleep is solved, everything gets better. Without anything to wear, think about, or remember every night, the Beddit 3 Sleep Tracker accurately measures sleep, heart rate, breathing, snoring, and the environment. We connect your daily habits to all aspects of sleep quality in order to answer the question of why we sleep well and why not. Through integrations with a broad range of experts, we help our users to find individual solutions to solve their sleep.
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Altair RapidMiner data analytics and AI platform delivers end-to-end solutions from data ingestion and modeling to operationalization and visualization. Altair RapidMiner removes barriers to effectively connect three of an organization’s most important assets: data, people, and processes. With an unrivaled and complete set of tools to transform organizations, we are paving the way to a frictionless future. The platform enables users of all skill levels to accelerate projects from idea to production, modernizes legacy environments, and caters to enterprise needs with desktop and cloud offerings. We meet you where you are and evolve with your company, wherever you go in the future. The Altair RapidMiner platform delivers breadth and depth across the analytics lifecycle with unique capabilities that overcome the most challenging obstacles organizations face along their digital transformation journey. The RapidMiner Academy and Center of Excellence methodology ensures customers are successful, no matter their experience or resource levels. Since 2007, more than 1 million professionals and 40,000 organizations in over 150 countries have relied on RapidMiner to bring data science closer to their business.
2015
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2015
Board Member
2015
Our goal is make Linux speak Microsoft through perfect native interoperability, improving all mixed IT environments in the world. We have started realizing this goal by offering native interoperability on the most used business services: Exchange and Active Directory. With our products Zinc and Zentyal Server we already offer this interoperability to thousands of companies and organizations all over the world. And we will continue to expand, improve and innovate to reach the goal of perfect interoperability and world-wide adoption.
2012
Member of the Board
Dec 2012
Nordic Telecom, headquartered in Helsinki, is a privately held company operating internationally. We have 14 employees and operations in Spain, Estonia, Germany, and Sweden. We offer an easy-to-use call management system, which helps you do right things at the right time. It’s the missing piece between a service provider and a customer. In addition to improving customer satisfaction and the possibility of additional sales, our system eliminates queuing, increases customer retention and saves missed calls. Our service is ideal for sectors, where customer contacts are golden and good customer service is a priority. Finnish Service Innovation From their customers’ perspective, our customer companies increase their value by offering a better customer service experience. Our customer companies are able to identify peak hours and make sure all customers get expert service. Reports enable our customers to ensure employee efficiency and commercial value. Customer service and customer satisfaction are improved, which means the possibility of additional sales is multiplied. According to the feedback we’ve received, our customers have seen a significant increase in both customer satisfaction and sales since introducing our service. This is a true Finnish service innovation. Our Solution NTC service portal allows our customer companies to retrieve all missed calls easily and in real time. Our solution registers all customer contacts, and provides the staff with the they tools need to efficiently serve their customers. Management receives detailed reports of unanswered calls, commercial success of call-backs, and the effectiveness of sales and customer service. Our service requires no investments or additional hardware. It’s compatible with all up-to-date IT and phone systems and all mobile devices and computers. Our service is independent of operators, and requires no changes to existing phone numbers.
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