# Carbon

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/carbon-3

- Industry: Semiconductors
- Headquarters: Santa Clara, US
- Website: https://www.carbon.ai/
- Total disclosed funding: $1.3M
- Latest round: Seed (Dec 8, 2023)
- Investors on record: 2

## About

Based in California, US, and founded by Derek Tu, JCDT Inc. doing business as Carbon operates as a software development company offering API (application programming interface) to connect external data. Some of its clients include My AskAI, FormWise.AI, Typing Mind, jenni, Layup, etc. In December 2023, the firm raised USD 1.3 million in seed funding.

Carbon offers data management solutions for Large Language Models (LLMs), to serve as the universal retrieval engine. The firm facilitates LLMs in accessing unstructured data from any source, laying the foundation for retrieval pipelines. Carbon's pre-built connectors alleviate the complexities of ingesting unstructured data, offering ready-made components for file upload, web scraping, and 3rd party authentication. Additionally, the company's rich library of smart APIs and hybrid search options are purpose-built for AI (artificial intelligence), offering document management, embedding generation, and hybrid search capabilities.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Dec 8, 2023, $1.3M — Treble Capital, MKT1

## Investors

- Treble Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/treble-capital) — Seed
- MKT1 (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/mkt1) — Seed