Ocean Wins Place on 2026-27 Fortune Cyber 60 Five Months After Leaving Stealth

Ocean was named a winner of the 2026-27 Fortune Cyber 60 in the Early Stage category, five months after emerging from stealth, PR Newswire reported on October 28, 2026. The agentic email security platform was selected from more than 300 cybersecurity startups.

How Ocean Landed on the Cyber 60

The Cyber 60 list recognizes 60 venture-backed cybersecurity companies, presented by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Amazon Web Services in partnership with Fortune. Now in its fourth year, the list places 20 companies in each of three categories: Early Stage, Early Growth and Growth. Lightspeed evaluated more than 300 startups on annual recurring revenue, current- and prior-year growth, and business operations, and Fortune reviewed and validated the final list.

Ocean's platform investigates every email, including those from known and trusted senders, and its Ray intelligence engine analyzes communication intent, sender relationship history and sending infrastructure. The company deploys through an API, read-only, with no MX change, and goes live in hours. Customers include Kayak, Headspace and Global Fortune 500 organizations across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.

Shay Shwartz, Co-Founder and CEO of Ocean, said: "Being named to the Cyber 60 is a credit to the people building Ocean and to the customers who trusted us early." David Gussarsky, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, said: "Recent events show us that security needs to move at machine speed."

Fortune's Ranking Franchise

Fortune, a 95-year-old privately held American business media company founded in 1930 and headquartered in New York, publishes proprietary business rankings alongside its magazine and website, according to akta.pro company records. The same records list partnerships with Great Place to Work for the annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ranking and with Korn Ferry for the World's Most Admired Companies list, which surveys approximately 3,000 executives, directors and analysts. The records also note that Fortune launched the inaugural Fortune Crypto 100 and Crypto Innovators rankings in partnership with Inca Digital in 2026.

Earlier Fortune List Announcements

Bold Security was named to the 2027 Fortune Cyber 60 list in its first year in October 2026, for its AI-based endpoint data loss prevention, PR Newswire reported. RTA Fleet was named No. 48 on the 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology list in October 2026, its second ranking of 2026, Business Wire Blog reported. GigaCloud Technology Inc ranked No. 13 on Fortune's Fastest Growing Companies 2026 list in October 2026, FinancialContent Business Page reported.

What Comes Next for Ocean

Ocean said it deploys via API in minutes with no MX changes, and a 60-day lookback shows what has been slipping through. The company's platform is available through its own site.