# Oceans

> Oceans is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 73 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 73
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Fund size: $11M
- Last fund: Oct 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceansventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/oceansventures
- Website: https://oceans.ventures/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oceansventures

Oceans is a venture capital firm focusing on giving startups the hands-on support they need to succeed. They are a team that builds teams, a culture that shapes cultures, and a group of mentors who unlock skills and talent to build a future of technology. They help founders build the foundations that unlock the power of people.Oceans was foundedin 2018 and is headquartered in New York, USA.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Oceans. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Oceans. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/oceans-9747?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$9.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.5M–$4M |
| Series A | $8M–$120M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 12% |
| Internet | 7 | 10% |
| Health Care | 6 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 8% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 29 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 10% |
| Series A | 5 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 1% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 38 | 52% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Glenn Handler | Co-Founder, General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glenn-handler |
| Henry Sherwood Caballero | Marketing and Client Services Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henry-sherwood-caballero |
| Sara Barek | Managing Partner and Founding Team Member | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sara-barek |
| Steven Rosenblatt | Co-Founder, General Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-rosenblatt |
| Brian Lew | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-lew |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Foundational Industries | Foundational Industries develops, finances, and operates autonomous manufacturing facilities for contract manufacturing. Its factories use AI-enabled robotics and a unified factory operating layer to coordinate activities from product design through production. The company serves businesses that require domestic production and manufacturingcapacity for critical components and products. | $25M | Seed | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Nebex | NEBEX is a successful middle market investment intermediary. NEBEX, has completed over 100 transactions throughout the United States. New England Business Exchange concentrates on representing sellers whose business appeals to large corporate buyers or private equity groups. | $30M | Seed | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| Jedify | Jedify is a technology company that develops a contextual data platform designed to support artificial intelligence systems and enterprise data environments. The company focuses on building a “context graph” that connects structured and unstructured data, business logic, and organizational knowledge into a unified layer that AI systems can use toreason more effectively. Its platform, called Semantic Fusion, is intended to translate fragmented enterprise data from sources such as databases, cloud systems, SaaS tools, and documents into an AI-ready knowledge structure. The platform enables organizations to create connected representations of their business entities, relationships, workflows, and metrics, allowing AI agents and analytics systems to operate with better understanding of context. Instead of relying solely on raw tables or isolated metadata, Jedify builds a semantic model that links data points with real-world business meaning, such as customer definitions, revenue logic, permissions, and operational rules.Jedify also provides tools that allow enterprises to integrate multiple data sources and continuously update their contextual models as new information flows through systems. This enables AI applications to generate insights, answer natural language queries, and support decision-making processes while remaining aligned with internal business definitions and governance rules. | $24M | Series A | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Iconic | Iconic leverages AI and automation for better buyer matching and valuations. | $6M | Seed | May 27, 2026 |  |
| Star Catcher | Star Catcher creates first energy grid for space. Star Catcher's orbital infrastructure will transform how satellites are powered. | $65M | Series A | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Windmill | Windmill is an information technology company that provides a tools for reviews, feedback, goal tracking and manage people, performance. | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| RiskFront | RegTech | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Moonshot AI | Moonshot AI is a No-code solution that optimizes e-commerce stores automatically. The platform utilizes the power of generative AI to enable brands to constantly iterate on CRO experiments, without requiring design, analysis, or developer resources. | $10M | Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Workgrounds | Workgrounds is an end-to-end platform that automates the process to source, book, and manage hotel room blocks at scale for enterprises. | $8.1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 05, 2024 |  |
| Arya Health | Arya Health is a healthcare workforce automation technology that aims to improve how healthcare firms manage their workers. It uses AI and automation to create bespoke solutions that streamline scheduling, payroll, onboarding, and compliance operations. | $4M | Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |

10 of 73 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Lorimer Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lorimer-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Operator Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/operator-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [City Light Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/city-light-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [f7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f7-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Oceans invest in?

Oceans invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 73 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Oceans's check size?

Oceans typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$9.5M at Seed, $1.5M–$4M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$120M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Oceans participates in.

### How do I contact Oceans?

Public channels for Oceans include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Oceans?

The team at Oceans includes Glenn Handler (Co-Founder, General Partner), Henry Sherwood Caballero (Marketing and Client Services Analyst) and Sara Barek (Managing Partner and Founding Team Member), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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