The Next Web Graphon AI emerged from stealth this week with an $8.3 million seed round led by Novera Ventures and backed by investors including Perplexity Fund, Samsung Next, and GS Futures. The San Francisco startup aims to create a “pre‑model intelligence layer” that automatically discovers relationships across multimodal enterprise data before it reaches large language models. Founded by Arbaaz Khan, Deepak Mishra and Clark Zhang, the company already counts South Korean conglomerate GS Group among its first customers, using the technology for store‑traffic analytics and construction‑site safety.
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