Ocean Emerges From Stealth With $28M for Agentic Email Security Platform

Ocean, a newly launched startup, received $28 million in funding to develop an agentic email security platform, which uses specialized AI agents (software programs that can act autonomously to complete tasks) to analyze incoming emails and detect threats like business email compromise (when attackers impersonate trusted business contacts) and AI-generated phishing (fraudulent messages created by AI). The platform goes beyond simple filtering by examining sender intent, conversation context, and infrastructure details to identify malicious intent in emails that appear legitimate.