
Carbon is a universal retrieval engine for LLMs that connects external data to LLMs from any source. It offers over 25 data connectors to ingest unstructured data and load it into any destination, enabling businesses to build powerful Generative AI features. Carbon differentiates itself with its AI-ready data processing, security measures, and enterprise-level availability guarantees. The company has seen traction through partnerships with various clients who have successfully integrated its solutions to enhance their AI applications.

Carbon is a universal retrieval engine for LLMs that connects external data to LLMs from any source. It offers over 25 data connectors to ingest unstructured data and load it into any destination, enabling businesses to build powerful Generative AI features. Carbon differentiates itself with its AI-ready data processing, security measures, and enterprise-level availability guarantees. The company has seen traction through partnerships with various clients who have successfully integrated its solutions to enhance their AI applications.
Headquarters / focus: Seattle-based ag-tech company building autonomous LaserWeeder robots and plant-identification AI
Founded: 2018
Founder / CEO: Paul Mikesell
Notable tech: Large Plant Model (LPM) / Carbon AI trained on ~150M plant images
Reported total funding (2026): More than $185M (reported)
Agricultural robotics and plant-identification AI for farm-scale weed control and crop analytics.
2018
Ag-tech / Robotics
$27M
Round reported Sep 1, 2021; company total at that time reported around $36M.
$30M
Round reported Apr 11, 2023 with participation from Anthos Capital, Fuse, Ignition Partners, Liquid 2 and Voyager Capital.
“Participation from institutional VCs including Anthos Capital, Sozo Ventures, Fuse, Ignition Partners, Liquid 2, Voyager Capital, and later participation reported from Bond, Revolution, and NVentures”