Carbon Arc
Democratizes data access by using AI to transform raw data into actionable insights, empowering decision-makers and fueling the AI economy.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| investor | €0.0 | round | |
* | $56.0m | Late VC | |
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
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Carbon Arc is a New York-based data utility company founded in 2021 by Kirk McKeown, positioning itself as a critical infrastructure provider for the AI-driven economy. McKeown, the co-founder and CEO, brings extensive experience from the finance industry, where he built and managed large proprietary research businesses at firms like Point72 and Glenview Capital. This background exposed him to the inefficiencies of the traditional data market—characterized by siloed, raw, and underutilized data locked in rigid, expensive contracts—which inspired the creation of Carbon Arc to function as an exchange for data insights.
The company's core offering is its Insights Exchange, a platform that transforms raw, unstructured data from various industries into standardized, AI-ready intelligence. This service addresses the significant challenge businesses face in accessing and utilizing external data, which is often a slow, opaque, and high-friction process. Carbon Arc's platform ingests petabytes of data, which it structures using a proprietary unified ontology. This ontology connects data points to tangible entities like companies, brands, and locations, turning siloed information into usable insights. The business model is centered on consumption-based pricing, allowing clients to buy, sell, and consume data insights dynamically, similar to how utilities are consumed. This approach contrasts with traditional, fixed-price data contracts, offering a more flexible and cost-effective solution.
Carbon Arc serves a diverse client base that includes AI-native companies, financial services firms such as hedge funds, management consultants, and data-forward corporations in sectors like sports, entertainment, retail, and healthcare. The platform enables these clients to find customers, gain campaign insights, and optimize brand engagement. For instance, a strategic partnership with Facteus, a provider of consumer transaction data, allows customers to purchase specific data segments on-demand, empowering investors with alpha-generating insights and enterprises with competitive intelligence. Following a significant milestone in March 2025, the company secured $56 million in a Series A funding round led by Liberty City Ventures, with participation from K5 Global, Raptor Group, and Wasserman Media Group, to accelerate the growth of its Insights Exchange and expand global data partnerships.
Keywords: data utility, insights exchange, AI-ready data, consumption-based data, data marketplace, decision intelligence, structured data, data-as-a-service, big data analytics, Kirk McKeown, Liberty City Ventures, financial data, healthcare data, retail data, media data, alternative data, data ontology, business intelligence, data monetization, real-time insights