Ocean Founder Raises $28M to Defend Email from AI‑Driven Phishing

Colleagues, a cybersecurity update: startup Ocean has emerged with a $28M round.

Founder Shay Shwartz — from teenage hacker to defense project lead (including work related to Iron Dome) and a stint at Axis (later acquired by HPE) — launched Ocean, an email protection platform against AI‑augmented attacks.

Ocean says a compact, specialized LLM analyses message context to detect fraud and sender impersonation; it already scans billions of emails for clients including Kayak and Kingston.

Why it matters: AI scales targeted phishing; traditional defenses are insufficient.

How are you preparing email systems and staff for the next wave of phishing?

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