Ocient raises $100M for governed Enterprise AI delivery. Before an Ocient deployment goes into production, somebody has to decide what the customer's data means. That assignment sits inside the company's offer: OcientAIQ includes specialists who design, validate and deploy solutions, making the work around an AI system part of what the customer buys. The Chicago company is financing a larger delivery effort with a $100M Series C announced November 5, 2026. BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures co-led the round, which brings Ocient's reported total funding to $260M. The investment supports OcientAIQ solutions for agentic AI and analytics on petabyte-scale data, where a useful answer depends on the records, calculations and permissions underneath it. What Ocient's Series C finances. Ocient says the financing will accelerate OcientAIQ delivery for organizations working with large, continuously changing datasets. Returning participants include 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, adding another institution to a syndicate that combines enterprise software, infrastructure and national security interests. Ocient expects revenue to more than triple in 2026, according to its announcement. The company has not disclosed the starting revenue or a valuation in that release, so the growth expectation supplies direction without revealing the size of the business. Its $260M cumulative funding figure describes capital raised across its history; the new Series C accounts for $100M of that total. The round extends a long relationship with OCA Ventures. An Ocient announcement from June 2020 identified OCA as the lead investor in an additional $15M financing, following $10M announced in 2018. That history matters because backing a database company through development and backing its expansion into customer environments are different assignments, even when the investor remains the same. A database with an AI customer. Ocient's 2024 account of its development traces the company to a 2016 thesis about NVMe storage and describes its emergence from stealth in 2022. The original Hyperscale Data Warehouse addressed intensive analytics on large datasets. The same account documented a $49.4M financing extension and a then-current $119M cumulative funding figure, putting years of engineering and capital behind the platform now being offered to AI customers. The company's current enterprise AI architecture places analytical execution in the data platform. Agents can ask for work while the engine handles operations such as joins, filters and aggregations near the records. Ocient describes that arrangement as a way to give agents context without copying enormous datasets into prompts, with controls around access and the record of activity. For an enterprise buyer, the important distinction is who performs which operation. A model interpreting a request and a database executing a calculation have different jobs, error patterns and operating costs. Keeping that division legible gives the buyer a more concrete procurement discussion: which data the agent can access, where the calculation runs, and how the team can inspect the result afterward. Those questions continue to matter as the interface becomes more conversational. The installation carries commercial weight. Ocient packages industry solutions with data infrastructure and implementation expertise. Its solutions delivery team works across the path from requirements to production and continuing support. This puts responsibility for translating a customer's domain into a functioning system inside the commercial relationship, alongside the software itself. That structure gives the sales conversation an unusually practical center. A communications provider has to preserve the meaning of network records; an analyst needs consistent definitions; a security team needs to reconstruct activity from the available evidence. Those are operating requirements, and the buyer has to decide how they will survive the move into an AI workflow. Ocient's industry focus gives its delivery organization a role in answering that question for each installation. Its security documentation describes role-based access controls, logging and data masking, and states that Ocient holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. The company also describes annual SOC 2 Type II certification for OcientCloud or managed solutions. Buyers still need to examine the applicable deployment and evidence; a certification's scope belongs in that discussion rather than becoming a blanket promise about every customer's compliance obligations. Familiar operators, broader institutions. Ocient appointed John Morris CEO in June 2025, while founder Chris Gladwin continued as executive chairman. Morris had previously led Cleversafe, another Gladwin-founded company. Ocient's current leadership includes CTO Ian Drury, co-founder and chief solutions officer Joe Jablonski, and co-founder and chief architect George Kondiles, giving the financing a team responsible for both the platform and its delivery. BOKA Capital brings a dual-use investment focus to the syndicate. The adviser's announcement of the financing says BOKA partner Erik Thoresen joins Ocient's board and operating partner Teresa Smetzer becomes a board observer. CEA International served as UK financing adviser, a separate role from the investors supplying capital. The institutional reach is widening alongside the company. Ocient says it formalized its India operations and Ocient National Security Solutions as dedicated subsidiaries earlier in 2026. As those operations grow, the delivery commitment travels with them: somebody must keep the customer's definitions, permissions and analytical requirements intact while the installed system starts serving more people and more agents. The Series C finances that work across a larger set of environments, each with its own owner waiting for an answer they can use. DevCuration Data Enterprise AI Infrastructure funding, last 30 days. DevCuration's funding database tracked 4 Enterprise AI Infrastructure rounds totaling $31M in disclosed capital over the past 30 days. Recent deals DevCuration covered:

CEA International secures BOKA Capital as co-lead investor in Ocient's Series C. TAMPA, Fla. & LONDON-(BUSINESS WIRE)-#BOKACapital - CEA International LLP ("CEAI"), the London-based subsidiary of US-headquartered CEA Group ("CEA"), is pleased to announce its role as UK financing adviser to Ocient Inc. ("Ocient") on its $100 million Series C financing, securing BOKA Capital ("BOKA") as co-lead investor in the round. The transaction was led by Karima Serageldin, Managing Director, CEA International LLP. Ocient delivers trusted agentic AI solutions for petabyte-scale data environments. Its OcientAIQ(TM) ecosystem delivers industry-specific solutions powered by a unified data platform that runs analytics and agentic AI directly on governed, petabyte-scale data in a single engine. BOKA co-led the round, with Erik Thoresen, Partner at BOKA, joining Ocient's Board of Directors and Teresa Smetzer, Operating Partner at BOKA, joining as a Board Observer. BOKA is a global growth equity investor in deep technology, combining investment experience with senior defence, national security and government expertise. John James, CEO of BOKA Capital, commented: "Mission-critical operations, from infrastructure and space to cybersecurity and defence, increasingly depend on analysing and responding to vast volumes of data in real time. Ocient's combination of scale, speed and price-performance, together with the calibre of its team, puts it in a strong position to meet that need for commercial, government and national security customers alike. We are pleased to co-lead this round, to join the board and to partner with the Ocient team through its next stages of growth." John Morris, CEO of Ocient, said: "This investment will help us deliver OcientAIQ(TM) to more customers operating in petabyte-scale data environments, and we're pleased to have the support and backing of BOKA Capital, with thanks to CEA International, as we accelerate delivery of our solutions." Karima Serageldin, Managing Director, CEA International LLP commented: "Data is strategic infrastructure, and applying agentic AI at scale, to extract insight instantly and anticipate emerging patterns, is increasingly vital to rapid informed decision-making, human-machine operations, and sovereign resilience. Ocient's energy-efficient architecture delivers cost-effective, hyperscale analytics while helping address the power and data-centre constraints on AI growth. With its deep-tech focus, BOKA Capital is a strong growth capital partner as Ocient expands internationally across dual-use markets, including space, cyber-intelligence and national security. On behalf of CEAI, I am pleased to have advised Ocient on its financing and facilitated BOKA Capital's participation as co-lead investor in the round." About CEA International LLP CEA International LLP (CEAI) is the London-based subsidiary of CEA Group (CEA) which was founded in 1973 and is a leading provider of investment banking and advisory services, in addition to its direct and strategic interests. CEA has completed over 1,000 transactions totalling $60+ billion in more than 60 countries. About Ocient Ocient delivers AI-driven, industry-specific solutions built on a unified data and analytics platform designed for linear, limitless scale. Ocient enables organizations to deploy and operate AI agents and applications that reason over high-velocity, full-resolution data in real time, delivering autonomous insight, decisioning, and action with predictable economics and control. Headquartered in Chicago, Ocient is backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Buoyant Ventures, and BOKA Capital. For more information, visit www.ocient.com. About BOKA Capital BOKA is a global growth equity investment firm headquartered in London, focused on deep technology and dual-use innovation across artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space technology, aerospace and defence, critical infrastructure, and sovereign resilience. For more information visit http://www.bokacap.com. Media Contacts CEA Group J. Patrick Michaels, Jr. Chairman & CEO Tel: +1 813-226-8844 [email protected] CEA International LLP Karima Serageldin Managing Director Tel: +44 (0)207-280-4886 [email protected] Ocient Taylor Todd Associate Director of Communications [email protected] Contact Subcablenews Ltd. Subcablenews Ltd. Phone: +44 1954 250 479