Ocean emerged from stealth mode this week with $28 million in funding for its agentic email security platform.
The funding came from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, Cerca Partners, and prominent angel investors.
Headquartered in New York City and Tel Aviv, and founded in 2024 by Shay Shwartz and Oran Moyal, Ocean has developed a platform that uses specialized AI agents to inspect every incoming message.
These agents evaluate sender intent, gather broader context, and review evidence from conversation threads to detect threats. The solution focuses on sophisticated attacks such as business email compromise, vendor email compromise, and AI-generated phishing.
The platform conducts in-depth analysis of infrastructure, files, links, identities, financial requests, and abuse mailboxes.
For security teams, Ocean automates the triage of reported emails, quarantine releases, and incident handling. It also delivers real-time guidance to employees facing suspicious messages.
“The challenge is no longer just detecting malicious emails. It’s identifying harmful intent hidden inside messages that appear completely legitimate,” said Shwartz, who serves as Ocean’s CEO.
Shwartz added, “Attackers now use AI to write flawlessly, reference real projects, and impersonate trusted colleagues, making it nearly impossible to spot the difference. Security teams end up spending too much time chasing outliers while the attacks that actually matter are designed to blend in. Ocean replaces surface-level filtering with AI agents that investigate every email, verify context, and identify malicious intent at scale.”
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