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Ocient Raises $100M Series C for Petabyte-Scale Agentic AI

Chicago-based Ocient has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures, bringing total funding to $260 million.

Server racks in a data center representing petabyte-scale analytics infrastructure for agentic AI.
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Chicago-based data analytics company Ocient announced on November 5 (local time) that it has raised $100 million in a Series C round. BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures co-led the round, all existing investors took part, and Dallas Venture Capital joined as a new backer. Total funding now stands at $260 million.

Returning investors include Greycroft, In-Q-Tel, Blue Bear Capital, Buoyant Ventures, PSP Growth, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Eron Wolf. BOKA Capital CEO John James will join Ocient's board.

One engine for data and agents

Founded in 2016, Ocient provides AI-driven, industry-specific solutions and an analytics platform for petabyte-scale data. Its core product, the OcientAIQ Unified Data Platform, combines ingestion, governance, analytics, business context and agent skills in a single engine, so analytics and agentic AI run directly on petabyte-scale data. It works on-premises and in the cloud.

Agent actions are subject to controls on access, policy and data provenance. Because analysis runs inside the engine rather than through a language model, the company says every result can be reproduced and audited.

On top of the platform, OcientAIQ Solutions targets advertising, telecom, finance and national security. Each offering bundles curated agent skills, industry-specific semantics and proven deployment patterns into a "Solution Pack". Ocient's own team handles the work in the customer's environment, from requirements through production rollout and ongoing support.

In cybersecurity, network and security data can be ingested and searched as it is generated, letting teams trace where and since when threat signals appear across the full history. For telecoms, regulated records such as call detail records (CDR) and internet connection records (ICR) can be retrieved with provenance across the entire mandated retention period.

What comes next

This year Ocient made its India business and its national security unit, Ocient National Security Solutions, separate subsidiaries. The new capital will speed up delivery of OcientAIQ Solutions to organizations applying agentic AI analytics to constantly changing petabyte-scale data. Citing demand from customers in industries with ever-growing data volumes, the company expects this year's revenue to more than triple.

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