Ocient, a Chicago-based provider of agentic AI and large-scale data analytics technology, has raised $100 million in Series C funding co-led by BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures. The financing brings the company’s total capital raised to $260 million and will accelerate the expansion of OcientAIQ, its platform for deploying AI solutions across petabyte-scale data environments. The round included participation from all existing investors, with significant backing from Greycroft, In-Q-Tel, Blue Bear Capital, Buoyant Ventures, PSP Growth, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and Eron Wolf.
CEA International, the London-based subsidiary of CEA Group, served as Ocient’s UK financing advisor and secured BOKA Capital’s participation as a co-lead investor. The advisory engagement was led by Karima Serageldin, Managing Director at CEA International.
As part of the financing, Erik Thoresen, Partner at BOKA Capital, will join Ocient’s Board of Directors, while Teresa Smetzer, Operating Partner at BOKA, will serve as a board observer.
Ocient expects its revenue to more than triple in 2026, supported by growing demand from organizations managing continuously expanding datasets and increasingly complex AI workloads.
The company’s OcientAIQ ecosystem combines data ingestion, analytics, governance, and agentic AI capabilities within a unified technology platform. The architecture enables organizations to analyze high-volume information in real time while maintaining control over data access, security policies, and operational workflows.
OcientAIQ Solutions provides industry-specific offerings supported by curated AI agent capabilities, business context, and deployment frameworks tailored to individual customers.
The underlying OcientAIQ Unified Data Platform enables AI agents and analysts to work directly with governed datasets without relying on extensive data movement or sampling.
This approach is designed to improve performance, maintain traceability, and reduce computing costs associated with processing large datasets through language models.
Applications include cybersecurity threat detection, communications compliance, critical infrastructure monitoring, and intelligence analysis.
In cybersecurity, Ocient enables organizations to ingest and analyze network activity as it occurs, helping identify emerging threats and investigate historical patterns across complete datasets.
For communications service providers, the platform supports regulatory compliance by retrieving records across required retention periods while preserving data lineage and auditability.
The company has also expanded its international operations, including the formal establishment of its India operations and Ocient National Security Solutions as dedicated subsidiaries.
These initiatives support Ocient’s expansion into government, defense, national security, and other markets requiring reliable analytics across mission-critical systems.
BOKA Capital brings expertise in deep technology and dual-use applications spanning artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space technology, aerospace, defense, and critical infrastructure.
CEA Group, founded in 1973, has advised on more than 1,000 transactions totaling over $60 billion across more than 60 countries.
With the new financing, Ocient plans to expand commercial deployment of its AI solutions and strengthen its ability to support organizations operating increasingly data-intensive systems.
“Our customers operate at a scale where the speed, quality, and reliability of an answer can have significant consequences. Ocient was built to help organizations meet those requirements, and this investment, together with the expertise of our investors, will help us extend the reach of OcientAIQ to more customers as they scale their data and AI operations. This investment will help us deliver OcientAIQ™ 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.”
“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. Turning advanced technology into dependable operational capability is now the critical test across defense and national security. Ocient’s architecture, and its record managing complex data environments at scale, put it in a strong position to meet that test. We are pleased to co-lead this round, to join the board, and to support the company through its next phase of growth.”
John James, CEO Of BOKA Capital
“We first invested in Ocient because we believed in the team’s ability to tackle problems that others had largely left unsolved. The advancements Ocient has made since then reinforce that early conviction, and we’re proud to further our support as the team enters its next stage of growth.”
Jim Dugan, Founding Managing Partner Of OCA Ventures
“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.”
Karima Serageldin, Managing Director Of CEA International LLP
