--- title: Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the... description: Nyne, a startup founded by Michael and Emad Fanous, raised $5.3 million in seed funding to build an intelligence layer that gives AI agents richer human... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nyne-founded-by-a-father-son-duo-gives-ai-agents-the-human-context-they-re-missing-xch3rdorm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing | daily.dev og:description: Nyne, a startup founded by Michael and Emad Fanous, raised $5.3 million in seed funding to build an intelligence layer that gives AI agents richer human... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nyne-founded-by-a-father-son-duo-gives-ai-agents-the-human-context-they-re-missing-xch3rdorm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XcH3rDorM.png og:image:alt: Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nyne, a startup founded by Michael and Emad Fanous, raised $5.3 million in seed funding to build an intelligence layer that gives AI agents richer human context. The company deploys millions of agents to analyze public digital footprints across social networks and apps like Instagram, Facebook, SoundCloud, and Strava, then applies machine learning to unify that data into a coherent profile of a person. The goal is to help consumer-facing companies using AI agents better understand existing and potential customers. Investors include Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons, with angel participation from Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics and a pioneer of Google AdSense. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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