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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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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.