TL;DR Graphon AI emerged from stealth with $8.3 million in seed funding to build a “pre-model intelligence layer” that discovers relationships across multimodal enterprise data before it reaches a foundation model. The round was led by Novera Ventures, with participation from Perplexity Fund, Samsung Next, GS Futures, Hitachi Ventures, and others. The company is named after a mathematical concept co-formalised by its technical advisors, UC Berkeley professors Jennifer Chayes and Christian Borgs. Founded by Arbaaz Khan (CEO), Deepak Mishra (COO), and Clark Zhang (CTO), with team members from Amazon, Meta, Google, Apple, NVIDIA, and NASA. Early customer GS Group (South Korean conglomerate) has deployed Graphon for convenience-store analytics and construction-site safety. The name is the tell.…