AI agents can write code, search databases, and carry out multistep tasks. But they can still lose track of past conversations and struggle to make sense of huge, changing troves of company information.
San Francisco-based Graphon is trying to solve that problem with software that lets agents store and retrieve information over time. Now, it has raised $35 million to further build and sell its technology.
The company’s name comes from “graphons,” a mathematical framework founder and CEO Arbaaz Khan used during his Ph.D. research into coordinating swarms of robots. Rather than treating a company’s documents, videos, and images as isolated snippets, Graphon maps the connections among them — including where information came from and when it changed.
Khan compared common AI search systems to tearing pages out of a book, crumpling them up, and tossing them into a bin.
“Now when you go searching that trash can, you’re just trying to find the pieces to answer,” he told Business Insider. “You’ve basically lost all that information because each piece is living on its own.”
Graphon, he said, instead creates a connected “fabric” of information.
The company says it has two groups of customers in mind: individual developers and companies with enormous stores of technical and operational data like industrial businesses, financial services, and healthcare companies.
“You can basically point your Claude or GPT or whatever to Graphon,” Khan said about the product being compatible with any off-the-shelf agents. “You can push in any amount of data in this, and we literally mean any.”
Graphon says its software is already used by the San Francisco 49ers and HP.
The company’s $35 million Series A round was led by RRE Ventures, with participation from Energy Impact Partners, Hitachi Ventures, Gaia VC, and HP. The company closed a roughly $8 million seed round earlier this year.
Graphon, which has 20 employees, plans to use the cash injection primarily to hire engineers and researchers, as well as some sales and go-to-market staff. Khan said the company expects to remain focused on enterprise customers before moving further into personal devices and consumer products.
Check out the pitch deck Graphon used to secure fresh funding:
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