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Crystal van Oosterom

AI Venture Partner

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Crystal is an AI Venture Partner at OpenOcean, having successfully contributed to AI startup ventures, the implementation of AI in global organizations and as an advisor to several AI companies. Crystal spear-headed the flagship product at Tractable, a pioneering computer vision unicorn, taking the lead from R&D through to go-to-market. Within 4 years, she launched the product in more than ten countries and grew it from $0.25m to $40m ARR. With a background in economics and theoretical physics, Crystal also helped leading corporations implement AI initiatives at McKinsey across various industries, including consumer goods, entertainment, aviation, real estate and professional services. Her passion lies in assisting AI founders in translating their research into valuable real-world applications and making a tangible impact. She has 10 AI patents and a further dozen pending.

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Why are we still building development teams like it’s 2020?

Twenty-five years ago, I could have written that same sentence and replaced “AI” with “the Web,” and forty years ago, “the personal computer.” This is not an article about needing to use Claude or other agentic AI tools; that is something you should be doing already. In this case, I’m talking about a fundamental restructuring of how software gets built and deployed.
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Portfolio spotlight: Dreamfold

Welcome to our portfolio spotlight series, where we highlight the teams behind some of the most ambitious technical companies. A company is only as strong as the people behind it, which is why we share the stories of the teams driving these disruptive innovations.
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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.