# Pryon

> Pryon is a Raleigh, North Carolina enterprise AI company that builds a secure retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) platform for regulated organizations. Founded in 2017 by Igor Jablokov - the entrepreneur whose earlier voice-recognition company Yap became Amazon's first AI acquisition and seeded Alexa - Pryon ingests text, audio, images and video from enterprise systems and pairs that content with large language models to deliver fast, source-attributed answers. Its RAG Suite and Memory Layer are designed to run anywhere from public cloud to fully air-gapped environments, targeting customers in government, defense, energy, life sciences, manufacturing and finance where accuracy, security and verifiability matter more than novelty.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- **Founders:** Igor Jablokov (Founder & Chairman (former CEO)), Samantha Lebow (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~130 employees
- **Products:** Pryon RAG Suite, Content Ingestion Engine, AI Memory Layer
- **Notable:** Founder Igor Jablokov previously built Yap, Amazon's first AI-related acquisition, whose technology seeded Alexa, Echo and Fire TV., Raised a $100M Series B in 2023 led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund; $140M+ total funding., Named 'AI Data Management Solution of the Year' in the 2025 AI Breakthrough Awards for its Memory Layer technology.

## Products & services

- **Pryon RAG Suite** — A secure, end-to-end retrieval-augmented generation platform that ingests text, audio, images and video, chunks and vectorizes it, and pairs it with LLMs to deliver source-attributed answers. Deployable air-gapped, on-premises, private cloud, federal cloud, public cloud or hybrid; processes hundreds of thousands of pages per collection and thousands of concurrent users with millisecond responses.
- **Content Ingestion Engine** — Automated pipeline that connects to enterprise repositories and normalizes, deduplicates and federates multimodal content into a retrievable knowledge base.
- **AI Memory Layer** — A data-management layer for enterprise AI that persists and governs organizational knowledge for retrieval - recognized as 'AI Data Management Solution of the Year' in the 2025 AI Breakthrough Awards.

## Achievements

- Founder Igor Jablokov previously built Yap, Amazon's first AI-related acquisition, whose technology seeded Alexa, Echo and Fire TV.
- Raised a $100M Series B in 2023 led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund; $140M+ total funding.
- Named 'AI Data Management Solution of the Year' in the 2025 AI Breakthrough Awards for its Memory Layer technology.
- Adopted by NVIDIA, Dell, the World Economic Forum and U.S. Department of Defense entities.
- Built one of the most flexibly deployable enterprise AI products, including fully air-gapped operation.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Pryon named 'AI Data Management Solution of the Year' in the 8th annual AI Breakthrough Awards for its enterprise AI Memory Layer technology.
- **2024-09** — Chris Mahl, a veteran of early Salesforce and Informatica, became President and CEO; founder Igor Jablokov moved to Chairman.
- **2023-09** — Closed a $100M Series B round led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund to index and analyze enterprise data.

## Links

- Website: https://pryon.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pryon
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/pryon
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pryon
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pryoninc

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