Saudi Telecom’s Tali Ventures and Aramco’s Wa’ed Ventures will be investing in Graphiant, a United States-based tech start-up, underscoring the Kingdom’s efforts to scale up digital infrastructure. The two investment arms have reportedly co-led a USD 19 million investment for the network connectivity company as part of a Series B fundraising, bringing the round’s total to USD 102 million.
The US start-up will soon open its regional headquarters in Riyadh, while working with STC Group on localisation, skills development, and new infrastructure initiatives. We will discuss more on Graphiant in today’s episode of the “Start-up of the Week,” as the company seeks to revolutionise the public sector, telecom, and enterprise spaces through its single, unified network solution for AI, cloud, SaaS, B2B, and branch networking.
Specialising In The Unified Network Solution Front
When enterprise networks included only data centres, campuses, branch offices, and a cloud connection, network provisioning was easy. IT owned, had visibility into, and controlled everything.
However, as things changed in the 21st century, the enterprise networks have gone on to include elements like hybrid cloud, remote workers, partners/customers, edge networks, and thousands of connected devices, resulting in a situation where network traffic crosses a “digital wilderness” that IT does not own, control, or have visibility into. This makes it impossible to provision enterprise-grade networks with the agility today’s business requires.
Graphiant, led by Viptela co-founder Khalid Raza, has set out to solve this particular problem. The start-up’s flagship service, the Graphiant Network-as-a-Service, has combined private network performance with Internet-class agility to enable IT to deliver enterprise-grade networks.
To extend its industry-leading features and functionality, Graphiant has tied up with established industry players like Dell Technologies, Intel, Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud, and Lanner, thereby enhancing the experience of enterprise customers.
The start-up has also entered into partnerships with “Go-To-Market Partners” like World Wide Technology, Trace 3, and Redvine, thereby setting up a network of system integrators and value-added resellers to provide the global scale and integration expertise that an enterprise needs from Graphiant’s network.
Here Are The Key Solutions
The 21st-century enterprise networks need their data to be future-proofed, and the rise of AI and the explosive growth of data are reshaping the modern economy. Companies that move quickly to harness their data will lead, while others risk falling behind. Against this backdrop, Graphiant, through its cloud-native and software-defined “AI Networking,” is positioning the organisations to stay ahead, enabling secure, agile, and profitable data-driven transformation.
Graphiant believes that the enterprise networks should accelerate companies’ AI initiatives instead of being a bottleneck. The start-up’s agentless, hardware-agnostic platform makes deployment effortless, integration seamless, and scaling unlimited. It also ensures maximum performance, unmatched visibility, and robust security, helping businesses turn their networks into their greatest competitive advantage.
AI Networking streamlines deployment and instantly integrates AI workloads into an enterprise’s existing hardware. A secure AI agent then communicates across the businesses’ entire network without creating additional complexities.
In the process, AI Networking also eliminates attack vectors and secures data flows end-to-end, ensuring their client companies’ AI workloads operate securely across the enterprise networks, while minimising technical overhead and operational complexity so the client enterprises’ teams can innovate and iterate their AI solutions faster.
Next is “Data Assurance,” which addresses “Blind Spots” in an enterprise network, which, if left untreated, can lead to cyber risks. The solution provides granular, real-time visibility and precise control of a company’s data in transit. It clearly defines secure paths for the network, proactively excludes high-risk regions, and maintains a confident compliance posture at all times.
Most importantly, businesses get to govern their network with precision by gaining real-time, granular visibility into every movement the data makes, ensuring the businesses always know exactly what is happening across their networks.
Data Assurance defines the geographic and logical pathways data takes, empowering businesses to manage network flows with unmatched accuracy, and to proactively assess risk posture with Graphiant Assurance Posture Scores (GAPS), enabling immediate action to mitigate emerging threats. The companies can also streamline adherence to complex regulations with intuitive policy management tools and auditable real-time visibility of data transit paths.
Graphiant’s “B2B” simplifies secure business collaborations with fast, easy-to-configure extranets while ensuring granular security, real-time visibility, and effortless compliance, all in one intuitive platform, therefore eliminating long onboarding cycles and frustrating extranet complexities.
Businesses get to turn partnerships into immediate profit opportunities through secure, scalable, and easy-to-manage networking, as the solution replaces legacy VPNs with a cloud-native solution that delivers Zero Trust security, encrypted traffic, and simplified policy control.
The “Cloud Gateway” solution makes it easy for enterprises to connect to major cloud providers with fast, secure, and scalable networking. Onboarding happens in minutes, followed by optimum performance across regions. The tool has become a cost-effective solution for hybrid cloud, global expansion, and high throughput workloads without the complexity of traditional setups.
Also, Graphiant’s software-based connectivity solution instantly transforms network complexity into simple, agile connections, apart from effortlessly managing high-volume data across distributed infrastructures, ensuring secure, seamless, and scalable data flows. Graphiant Network Edge is a Network-as-a-Service that gives enterprises a fast, simple, and easy way to build enterprise networks.
Secure Networking For Defence Critical Infrastructure
Defence Critical Infrastructure (DCI), including essential utilities, control systems, and security networks, demands uncompromising uptime and advanced cybersecurity. Traditional MPLS and SD-WAN networks are facing limitations under growing cyber threats and operational pressures.
Graphiant’s Protected Core Network-as-a-Service (PCN) meets these stringent demands, offering secure, high-performance connectivity tailored specifically for defence environments. The start-up’s cloud-native, stateless architecture ensures that data moves securely and efficiently, backed by geographic-based routing, proactive path assurance, and robust data sovereignty controls.
Essential utilities, control systems, and security networks can rapidly deploy, monitor, and adapt their networks to maintain seamless command-and-control, achieve precise synchronisation, and ensure the data remains within compliant geographic boundaries, keeping pace with evolving regulatory and operational demands.
The teams handling the operations of defence critical infrastructure can act faster and smarter in a dynamic threat landscape while remaining confident of the security and sovereignty of their sensitive data, as tools like real-time telemetry, AI-driven anomaly detection, and adaptive network policies keep infrastructures secure, agile, and ready for any challenge.
Through “Ultra-Synchronised Connectivity,” Graphiant’s Protected Core Network-as-a-Service ensures seamless command-and-control across all devices, achieving ultra-synchronisation essential for operational reliability and real-time responsiveness, while simplifying complex operations, minimising technical overhead, and accelerating mission readiness.
Unleashing Revolution In Telecom Sector
The rise of AI as a Service (AIaaS) has created urgent demands on telecom infrastructure, something that legacy MPLS and internet-based SD-WAN networks cannot meet. Graphiant’s advanced SDN platform addresses this need by enabling telecom providers to deliver agile, secure, and high-performance connectivity tailored specifically for AI-driven environments.
Telecom sector players can gain proactive protection with advanced telemetry and anomaly detection through Graphiant’s active monitoring, which continuously adapts, securing companies’ data in transit.
Businesses also avoid vendor lock-in and rigid hardware limitations, with the start-up’s cloud-based, stateless core enabling rapid scalability, seamless multi-cloud integration, and instant deployment. Through agentic AI, telecom sector players can address the massive data-sharing challenges by practicing robust visibility, precise control, and secure, compliant exchange of data.