Operations1

Operations1 provides software that digitises employee-led production processes end-to-end, helping industrial companies build long-term resilience in today’s complex environment.

Operations1 provides software that digitises employee-led production processes end-to-end, helping industrial companies build long-term resilience in today’s complex environment.
Automation
Milestones
Investment year
2021
Investment stage
Series A
Investment status
Portfolio
Deal team
Tom Henriksson
Operations1 provides software that digitises employee-led production processes end-to-end, helping industrial companies build long-term resilience in today’s complex environment.

While industrial companies face rising competitive pressure due to increasing customer demands for product individualisation and seamless documentation, access to skilled labour is becoming increasingly scarce. Operations1 offers a cloud-based platform that automates time-consuming administrative tasks, provides processual knowledge, and captures real-time data at the point of execution, enabling companies to build operational resilience, enhance flexibility, and continuously improve their workflows.

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What founders get wrong about speed and scale

Every founder faces the same question: how fast should you go? In conversation with our Venture Partner, Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana, we explored why so many startups struggle to balance speed, quality and scale, and how to get it right (at least most of the time). As Dups puts it, for every rule there is an exception, and for every exception there is something to learn.
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Quantum computing in Europe: lessons from IQM and OpenOcean

When we met Jan Goetz, Professor Mikko Möttönen and the rest of the IQM founding team in late 2018, we knew we were seeing something rare. The science was hard to grasp, even for my colleague Patrik Backman, who had studied physics and some quantum theory, but the ambition was unmistakable.
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The state of agentic AI in 2025: what’s working, what isn’t, and what’s next

At the start of the year, “2025: The Year of Agents” sounded like headline bait. Eight months in, it feels like an understatement. Sam Altman said agents would “join the workforce” in 2025. Satya Nadella expects them to replace segments of knowledge work. Marc Benioff wants Salesforce to be the “#1 provider of digital labour.” That’s not future tense anymore - today, agents are moving tickets, shipping code, and digesting documents.
Tom Henriksson
Tom Henriksson
General Partner
Tom Henriksson
Tom Henriksson
General Partner
Automation
Automation