Carbon Arc Gets $56m for BI and AI-Feed Platform

US company Carbon Arc has secured $56m in venture capital with which to launch what it calls 'the world's first real-time insights exchange', providing business intelligence and structured, model-ready data for AI developers.

The Exchange takes raw data from across industries and turns it into 'structured, standardized intelligence' for use by businesses and AI models. The company prides itself on offering flexible options for data sourcing and acquisition, allowing firms to 'dynamically consume, trade and integrate insights without time intensive data cleaning processes or lengthy legal and compliance reviews' - and to pay only for what they use.

Clients include hedge funds and financial institutions tapping real-time market intelligence; AI-native companies training models with structured, decision-ready data; and retail, healthcare and media businesses looking to optimize operations, supply chains and customer engagement. For those training AI models, Carbon Arc says competitive advantage comes from integrating external insights in real time, not just static company knowledge repositories but also current competitor activity, labor costs, weather patterns, and global supply chain conditions.

Company founder and CEO Kirk McKeown comments: 'Every major technology movement over the last 150 years has had an equally meaningful transformation in its underlying power source. The Industrial Age had electricity; the Mobility Age, oil and gas; the Financial Engineering Age, market evolution. The Intelligence Age will be no different. There are huge wells of high-quality data locked away - raw, siloed, and underutilized in outdated pricing models. Data today trades like stocks did in the 1930s. We are building the exchange that turns data into a liquid, tradable asset. We're unlocking private data, turning it into insights, and getting it into the hands of decision-makers who need it. That's why we built Carbon Arc: frictionless access to insights at scale'.

The investment was led by Liberty City Ventures, involved with the company since its early days, and was joined by K5 Global, Raptor Group, and Wasserman Media Group. The funding will help to expand the firm's global data partnerships; onboard providers across finance, healthcare, media and retail; and further develop its AI-powered 'ontology frameworks'.

Web site: www.carbonarc.co .