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Oak raises $60M to fix AI-era identity management

Israeli startup Oak has emerged from stealth with a generally available identity product after raising $60 million in seed funding. Co-founded by Shai Morag and Tal Marom, Oak offers a unified control plane and an "AI connector framework" that maps access to actual app usage and removes unneeded permissions in real time. The company says its solution is already deployed by enterprise clients, built a 50-person team while in stealth, and is hiring—especially in the U.S. The $60M round was co-led by Accel, CRV and Greylock Partners, with participation from AlphaDrive Ventures, Hetz Ventures and angel investors. Oak positions itself as an AI-native replacement for legacy IAM tools amid growing concerns that AI agents increase identity and access risks.

Omen AI raises $31M for coolant monitoring sensors

Omen AI developed a compact spectrometer to monitor liquid coolant chemistry in real time for liquid‑cooled GPU racks, detecting bacterial growth and signs of component wear to avoid costly shutdowns. The startup, founded by Zach Laberge in 2024, is pivoting from heavy‑vehicle fluid sensors toward data centers and is already working with about a dozen data‑center customers, including TensorWave. Omen announced a $31 million Series A led by Nava Ventures with participation from CRV, Vanderbilt University, Mann+Hummel, Starhill Holdings, Hard Launch Capital and personal investments from executives at Bridgestone, GM and Johnson Controls. The company has raised roughly $40 million to date. The article notes competing on‑premises approaches such as Pyxis’s recent coolant monitoring product and credits recent improvements in optical hardware and signal‑processing software for enabling the approach.

VCs Reframe Consumer Investing Around Prosumer AI

A Newcomer article (May 12, 2026) reports that venture capitalists who focus on consumer startups are broadening the category to include coding assistants and other prosumer artificial‑intelligence tools. The piece describes a recent Menlo Ventures‑hosted dinner attended by investors such as Faraz Fatemi (Lightspeed), Kirsten Green (Forerunner), Saar Gur (CRV), Ivan Zhou (Accel) and Mike Duboe (Greylock), and says VCs are shifting their definitions and investment theses to account for AI‑enabled productivity and prosumer products within the consumer bucket.