Founded 2026
Founders Hugo O'Reilly, CEO Zenyi Gomez, CTO

Firstocean is an AI-native commercialization partner that takes biotech drugs into markets across the Gulf, Latin America and Southeast Asia. It handles registration, pricing, distribution and safety under one agreement, with no upfront cost.


Founders

Hugo
O'Reilly

CEO

Hugo did health-tech investing at Averin Capital, working directly for one of the top biotech investors in US history. He did healthcare private equity investing at PAI Partners ($33B AUM) and IB at Goldman Sachs. He is a Blackstone Future Founders Fellow.

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Zenyi
Gomez

CTO

Zenyi shipped American Express’s first production AI agent, was a forward-deployed AI engineer at an NHS AI agents startup and did defense AI research at the Alan Turing Institute, UK’s national AI institute. He is a Turing and SPAR Fellow.

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