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Oceans Ventures

175 Varick Street 3rd Floor, New York, 10014, United States

Overview

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 founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, USA.

Total investments
32
Lead investments
5
Investments · 12mo
7
Active investors
6

Sector focus

  • Big Data
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Software
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Nebex

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

    Nebex builds market infrastructure for the global space economy, operating as an exchange layer that links space companies with sovereign buyers and the capital that moves deals. Founded in late 2025 by Tejpaul Bhatia, Anand Subramanian, and Manlio Di Stefano, the company aims to reduce revenue and cash-flow frictions that space founders face when engaging in government contracting. Nebex has secured a $30M seed investment led by GV and a banking relationship with J.P. Morgan to scale its platform and expand international commercial collaboration. The founder and CEO, Tejpaul Bhatia, previously led Axiom Space and is credited with over $1B in commercial space deals. Nebex's stated mission is to ensure international spend is reinvested in nations' own economies by enabling market mechanisms similar to other industries. The company is backed by a syndicate of venture funds including Eniac Ventures, 2048 Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Oceans Ventures, AIN Ventures, Also Capital, Anagram, Armory Square Ventures, Multiball Capital, Trajectory Capital, and VSC Ventures.

  • Jedify

    Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

    Jedify’s platform connects to enterprises’ knowledge sources via APIs to build a multi-dimensional context graph that captures relationships across entities, data, people, permissions, workflows, and terminology. Sources include databases, data warehouses and lakes, SaaS apps, BI tools, unstructured documents, code bases, Slack channels, and meeting recordings. The company’s context graph is model-agnostic, updates in real time, and is designed to inherit and enforce permissions from identity systems, file systems, SaaS tools, and databases while offering observability and governance tools. Jedify is targeting mid-market and large enterprise customers with mature data stacks and multiple data stores, and has seen interest from sectors such as gaming, industrials, and consumer packaged goods. At the time of the report it had between 10 and 20 early customers, including The Weather Company. Financially, the company has raised a total of about $33 million following the $24 million Series A.

  • Star Catcher

    Participated · Series A · May 2026

    Star Catcher is developing an orbital optical power-beaming energy infrastructure designed to transmit concentrated, conditioned solar energy to client satellites, enabling up to 10x more power without receiver retrofits. The company has demonstrated world-record optical power beaming performance and completed a critical on-orbit subsystem demonstration, validating its end-to-end system architecture. Star Catcher has signed seven power purchase agreements, secured multiple government contracts, and manages a qualified commercial pipeline representing more than $3 billion in projected annual recurring revenue. It plans to launch the first space-based optical power beaming demonstration later this year and is already advancing a second mission to retire technical risk and deploy operational capability. Financially, Star Catcher has raised $88 million to date, including a $65 million Series A intended to scale engineering, operations, commercial expansion, and national security engagement.

  • Windmill

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

    Windmill began with an AI-driven performance reviews product launched in November 2025 that integrates with Slack, GitHub, Google Workspace and 30+ other work tools to surface cited evidence for reviews. The company’s core offering is a continuously updated context graph capturing who people are, what they did, what good looks like, and perspectives, accessible via Windy (an AI agent), the Windmill web app, and APIs. Windmill reports over 100 customers, including Kalshi, Rho and Merge, and offers a free tier for up to 10 users. The product claims reviews complete 90% faster with 93% employee satisfaction, positioning the platform as infrastructure for HR to manage workforce change driven by AI. The company is building beyond reviews toward making workforce context available wherever companies need it; no revenue or funding history beyond the disclosed seed round is provided in the articles.

  • Rodeo

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    Founded by former Hinge executives Sam Levy and Tim MacGougan, Rodeo helps users upload links or screenshots from TikTok, group chats, and other social platforms, then automatically extracts information such as addresses, reservation links, or ticket details and drops them into a collaborative, calendar-style planner. The product targets the gap between meeting new people and sustaining existing relationships by making it simpler to turn online inspiration into offline plans. The app has attracted 20,000 beta users and the team expects to open access to roughly 50,000 people following its latest capital raise. Rodeo currently generates no revenue and has not committed to a specific business model; management is exploring partnership-driven economics with platforms like Ticketmaster or OpenTable and a potential freemium subscription tier. Advertising is viewed as misaligned with the product’s intended usage patterns. Promotion has leaned heavily on organic TikTok content, where influencer interest has driven large wait-list numbers. The company has not disclosed its valuation.

Team

  • Joshua Rahn

    Co-Founder, General Partner

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  • Glenn Handler

    Co-Founder, General Partner

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  • Steven Rosenblatt

    Co-Founder, General Partner

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  • Brian Lew

    Managing Partner

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