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Ocient Raises $100M Series C Co-Led by BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures
Ocient announced the close of a $100 million Series C round co-led by BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures, bringing its total funding to $260 million. The funding will accelerate delivery of OcientAIQ Solutions for organizations deploying agentic
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Ocient’s $100M Series C
Ocient announced on November 5 the close of a $100M Series C round, with BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures co-leading it. The financing brings the company’s total capital raised to $260M. Existing investors joined the round, including Greycroft, In-Q-Tel, Blue Bear Capital, Buoyant Ventures, PSP Growth, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Eron Wolf. Dallas Venture Capital also participated as a new investor.
The funding will accelerate delivery of OcientAIQ Solutions for organizations deploying agentic AI analytics against dynamic, petabyte-scale data. The company expects to more than triple revenue this year, driven by demand from customers in industries that rely on continuously expanding, high-volume datasets. Ocient has also continued to expand its strategic partner network and formalized its India operations and Ocient National Security Solutions as dedicated subsidiaries earlier this year.
“Our customers operate at a scale where the speed, quality, and reliability of an answer can have significant consequences,” said John Morris, CEO of Ocient. The investment and investors’ expertise will help the company extend OcientAIQ to more customers as they scale their data and AI operations, Morris said.
Ocient describes analytics inside the data platform
OcientAIQ combines industry-specific solutions with the OcientAIQ Unified Data Platform. The company describes the platform as bringing AI directly to petabyte-scale enterprise data, so agents, analysts and applications can get trusted answers without moving data across fragmented systems. Ocient’s solutions combine platform capabilities with a Solution Pack of curated agent skills, industry semantics and delivery patterns.
Each solution delivers components for agents and analysts to query and interpret data in real time, with deployments tailored to the customer’s environment. The platform unifies ingestion, governance, intelligence, business context and agent skills in one engine. The platform enforces access, policy and lineage controls on agent activity, while analysis runs inside the engine rather than through a language model. Every result can be reproduced and audited, Ocient says, with minimal data movement and lower token cost.
Cybersecurity and compliance use cases
Ocient lists cybersecurity as one application: ingesting network and security data as it is generated and making it immediately queryable. That setup lets teams detect threats as they emerge and trace where an indicator has appeared, and since when, across the complete history, the company says. For communications service providers, Ocient describes a compliance use case that retrieves every required record, including call detail records and internet connection records, for the full mandated retention window.
The compliance use case comes with full lineage and traceability. Ocient also describes a tailored data engine for enterprises, service providers and government agencies, built to bring their largest datasets together in an environment they own. Teams and AI agents can then use the complete record for successive use cases, the company says.
BOKA Capital’s CEO points to defense and national security
John James, CEO of BOKA Capital, said, “Turning advanced technology into dependable operational capability is now the critical test across defense and national security.” BOKA was pleased to co-lead the round, join Ocient’s board and support the company through its next phase of growth, James said. Jim Dugan, founding managing partner of OCA Ventures, said his firm first invested because it believed in the team’s ability to tackle problems others had largely left unsolved.
Ocient’s release also cites a Gartner forecast that worldwide IT spending will reach $7.35 trillion in 2027, a 15% increase from 2026, as organizations work to industrialize AI. The company presents governance as a way for organizations to have confidence in the data agents access and the answers they return.