BlueOcean

BlueOcean is a San Francisco-based AI company that builds brand and marketing decision intelligence for large enterprises. Founded in 2019 by former agency marketers Grant McDougall and Liza Nebel, it pulls from thousands of public data sources to tell marketing leaders how their brand is performing against competitors in near real time. In 2025 the company shipped Spark, a marketing-specific agentic AI platform built on Amazon Bedrock, which early adopters like AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, Roche and SAP say cut certain operational tasks by up to 97%. BlueOcean raised a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners in 2022 and has worked with brands representing trillions of dollars in market value.