Ocient

Data Infrastructure · AI · Enterprise Software

Funding

Ocient raises $100M Series C for petabyte-scale agentic AI analytics

The pitch isn't a smarter chatbot but a query engine that lets AI agents analyze full datasets without sampling or summarizing.

• Ocient closed a $100 million Series C co-led by BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures, bringing its total funding to $260 million.
• The Chicago-based company sells OcientAIQ, a unified platform combining data ingestion, governance, analytics and AI agent orchestration for petabyte-scale datasets.
• Ocient runs analysis directly on governed data with its own engine rather than routing through a language model, aiming for reproducible, auditable output and lower token costs.
• Ocient expects to more than triple revenue this fiscal year after doubling it the year before, growth CEO John Morris attributes to national security and telecom customers.
• Founder Chris Gladwin previously built data-storage company Cleversafe, which IBM acquired for nearly $1.4 billion in 2015.
• Ocient competes with Snowflake and Databricks but says its technology frequently complements rather than replaces those platforms for organizations needing to query data without sampling.
• As AI agents replace human analysts in querying enterprise data, the bottleneck shifts from compute to whether infrastructure can deliver governed, full-resolution access at massive scale rather than sampled summaries.