NEW YORK, May 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ocean, the first Agentic Email Security platform, today announced its launch from stealth with $28 million in total funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Picture Capital and Cerca Partners. Additional angel investors include Assaf Rappaport (Wiz), Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael (Armis), and Dor Knafo (former CEO of Axis Security and General Partner at Cyberstarts), among others.

Ocean is introducing the first AI-native email security platform built on autonomous investigation, already protecting hundreds of thousands of mailboxes while replacing legacy detection-based tools that can no longer stop modern, sophisticated AI-powered attacks.

Email remains the primary entry point for enterprise attacks, with more than 90% of successful cyberattacks starting with phishing. Spear phishing was once limited to sophisticated actors because it required time, research, and manual effort to execute at scale. AI has changed that. Highly personalized attacks can now be generated in seconds and launched at volume, eliminating the patterns and anomalies that traditional detection systems were built to catch.

"The challenge is no longer just detecting malicious emails. It's identifying harmful intent ...