Tom is a General Partner at OpenOcean, a venture capital firm investing in European data-intensive software startups. Tom is responsible for the intelligent automation investment area at OpenOcean, where the firm has invested in companies such as Leadoo Marketing Technologies, Passfort Ltd, and Supermetrics.
The most successful business model of the internet has been to harvest as much data as possible and only share it if profit can be extracted. Let's consider a new model, where all participants are aligned in their incentives to maximise benefit for the system as a whole.