{"id":17224,"date":"2026-03-13T23:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/nyne-founded-by-a-father-son-duo-gives-ai-agents-the-human-context-theyre-missing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:58:28","slug":"nyne-founded-by-a-father-son-duo-gives-ai-agents-the-human-context-theyre-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/nyne-founded-by-a-father-son-duo-gives-ai-agents-the-human-context-theyre-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they\u2019re missing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AI agents are expected to soon start making autonomous purchasing and scheduling decisions on behalf of humans.<\/p>\n

But Michael Fanous, a UC Berkeley computer science graduate and former machine learning engineer at CareRev, argues that these agents are currently missing a critical piece of the puzzle: the full context required to truly understand the people they are programmed to serve.<\/p>\n

Fanous claims that machines currently struggle to discern whether a person’s professional profile on LinkedIn, their activity on Instagram, and their public government records all belong to the same human being.<\/p>\n

To solve this, he teamed up with his father, Emad Fanous, a veteran CTO, to build Nyne, a startup aiming to become the intelligence layer that helps agents understand humans across their entire digital footprint.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Nyne announced it raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons, with participation from several angel investors, including Gil Elbaz, the co-founder of Applied Semantics and a pioneer of Google AdSense.<\/p>\n

While it may seem that Nyne is tackling an issue already solved by classic machine learning — given how effective Google’s ad targeting is at identifying its users — CEO Michael Fanous argues otherwise. Google’s “secret sauce” is its exclusive access to users’ search histories and cross-platform activity, a data advantage the tech giant will never share with external agents, he said.<\/p>\n

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For everyone else, “this is an oddly hard problem to solve,” explained Nichole Wischoff, founder of the solo VC fund Wischoff Ventures, which backed the deal. <\/p>\n

Fanous told TechCrunch that Nyne tackles the problem by deploying millions of agents across the internet to analyze public digital footprints and then applying machine learning techniques to that data.<\/p>\n

Nyne can triangulate information about a person by looking across not only major social networks like Instagram, Facebook, and X, but also their activity on apps like SoundCloud and Strava.<\/p>\n

Later, as more consumer-facing companies deploy AI agents, they can turn to Nyne to give those agents a deeper, real-world understanding of both existing and potential customers.<\/p>\n

“I can give them any piece of information about a person that could be useful to make the right next action,” Fanous said. “Once you make all these connections, you can understand a person fairly deeply, their interests, their hobbies, and how they think about very specific things,” he added.<\/p>\n

According to Wischoff, the market for this data is massive and valuable to any company using AI agents to reach out to customers.<\/p>\n

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“How do I know you’re pregnant and sell you A, B, or C as early as possible?” she said.<\/p>\n

While previous generations of adtech companies were able to gather some of this data, Nyne intends to do this for the world of agents with much more precision.<\/p>\n

As for how the father-son duo works together, the CEO says he has an ideal partnership with his CTO and dad.<\/p>\n

“I think with co-founders, it becomes easy to walk away when things don’t work,” Fanous said. “If I have to ping him at three in the morning to finish a launch, I know he’s going to still love me the next day.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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AI agents are expected to soon start making autonomous purchasing and scheduling decisions on behalf of humans. But Michael Fanous, a UC Berkeley computer science graduate and former machine learning engineer at CareRev, argues that these agents are currently missing a critical piece of the puzzle: the full context required to truly understand the people…<\/p>\n

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