FOR COMPANIES & LEAD INVESTORS
A shareholder that keeps the cap table simple.
Carbyne makes primary allocations in the companies behind the AI buildout. For founders and management teams, that means one coordinated investor on the cap table, a long horizon, and discretion around every round.
TYPICAL ALLOCATION · $5M–$50M
01 · AS A SHAREHOLDER
What working with Carbyne looks like.
One line on the cap table.
Our investors participate through a single vehicle, so the company deals with one counterparty and one signature.
A long horizon.
We underwrite for a multi-year hold and plan around the company’s timeline.
Discretion.
Your round, your terms and your information stay confidential.
Clear communication.
You know who we are, how we decide, and when you will hear back.
02 · INTO A ROUND
How we come in.
Introduction
Through the lead, an existing investor, or the company directly.
Diligence
Focused requests, organized around the materials you already have.
Allocation
A papered commitment, raised from our investors through a dedicated vehicle: typically $5M–$50M.
Close
Coordinated documents and funding on the round’s timetable.
03 · FOR LEAD INVESTORS
When a round outgrows the allocation.
Many of the largest rounds in this buildout exceed what any single fund can hold. Carbyne can take part of the balance through a dedicated vehicle, coordinated with the lead and the company, so the round closes with one more counterparty and one signature.
Coordinated with the lead
Terms, timing and information rights follow the round.
One entity on the cap table
Our investors participate through a single vehicle.
Papered before promised
We commit only to what we can fund.
04 · NETWORK
Relationships across the buildout.
Carbyne works across AI and deep tech, space and defense, energy, and robotics. When it helps, we make introductions to operators, investors and partners in those sectors, at your request.
05 · COMPANY-APPROVED LIQUIDITY
When the company wants it.
When a company wants to offer structured liquidity to early employees or investors, Carbyne can take part with the company’s approval and within its transfer provisions.
Raising, or planning a round?
Conversations are confidential and carry no obligation.