New York, October 28th / PRNewswire / —— The email security platform Ocean announced today that the company has been selected for the early stage ( Early Stage ) category of the prestigious 2026-27 Fortune Cyber 60 List. This list aims to honor 60 of the most important venture capital-backed cybersecurity companies and is jointly launched by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) in collaboration with Fortune.
According to the data from CISA, over 90% of successful cyberattacks begin with phishing emails, and artificial intelligence has changed the appearance of these emails. Attackers now learn about a company's baseline, relationships, and tone of communication, making their attacks appear entirely legitimate, thereby bypassing the tools designed to detect patterns and anomalies in the infrastructure. Ocean is precisely created to address this reality.
The agentic platform of Ocean will investigate each email, including those from known and trusted senders. A proprietary AI model screens each message at machine speed, and a specially constructed group of proxies will further review any content that deserves special attention. The central intelligent engine of Ocean conducts the most in-depth analysis of the communication intent, sender relationship history, and the infrastructure used for sending. Each determination is accompanied by a report readable by humans, explaining what was found and why. As a result, the security team receives reliable evidence rather than scores that need to be verified further. Ocean can be deployed through API and operates in read-only mode without the need to modify MX; it can be up and running within a few hours.
The company's clients include Kayak, Headspace, as well as Fortune 500 companies across global sectors such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. Ocean processes over 1 billion emails per month and protects the email accounts of hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide.
Cyber This year marks the fourth year of the program, with recognition covering areas such as AI security, identity and access management, data protection, cloud security, and secure operations. There are 20 companies in each category, which are divided into three groups: early stage, early growth, and growth. Lightspeed Over 300 cybersecurity startups are evaluated based on their annual recurring revenue, growth in the current and previous year, as well as their business operations. Fortune The final list is then reviewed and confirmed.
Ocean, Co-Founder and CEO, said: "Being selected for Cyber 60 is an affirmation of the team that has built Ocean and of the customers who trusted us in the early stages. We are proud to be able to help protect communications from social engineering attacks in today's highly realistic environments, where everything seems normal and credible."
Lightspeed Venture Partners Partner David Gussarsky states: "Recent events have shown that security needs to operate at machine speed. Ocean is leading this transformation in the field of communication security with a agentic approach that can respond to new attacks within seconds, protecting some of the largest organizations. We are delighted to see Ocean on this list."
About Ocean:
Ocean is a agentic email security platform that can prevent social engineering attacks driven by AI, which other tools may miss, including zero-day phishing. Attackers now use AI to learn how your company communicates, understand its relationships and patterns, and then design attacks that can blend in with them. Tools that specifically look for anomalies are unable to identify content that appears to be normal business operations, and traditional approaches that wait for the "first victim" are difficult to deal with polymorphic attacks, as the information provided by one victim is of limited help to the next. Ocean investigates each email on a large scale before employees see it, rather than after an alarm is received through SOC, just like the best analysts would. Our proprietary, cutting-edge AI model screens each message at machine speed, and our specially built proxies review any suspicious content, while the central intelligent engine Ray conducts the most in-depth analysis of intent, context, and evidence. Ocean can be deployed in just a few minutes through API without the need to make any changes to MX. The 60-day retrospective feature quickly shows what content has been missed. Your team always has full control, and SOC operations run automatically. For more information, please visit ocean.security.
