Israeli company Carbyne is being acquired by U.S. public safety tech firm Axon for $625 million in cash. This is one of the biggest security-related acquisitions from Israel in recent years.
Carbyne has built an AI-powered platform that helps improve emergency communication and response. It is already used by hundreds of public safety agencies and organizations around the world. The acquisition happened just three months after Axon led Carbyne’s $100 million funding round.
Axon, which is listed on Nasdaq and valued at around $56 billion, is best known for making Tasers and body cameras that are widely used by police officers and emergency responders.
Investors in Carbyne’s July funding round included AT&T Ventures, Cox Enterprises, Global Medical Response, Hanaco Growth, Hercules Capital, RCM Private Markets Fund, and SVB. So far, the company has raised about $200 million in total.
Carbyne was founded in April 2015 by Amir Elichai (CEO), Alex Dizengoff (CTO), Yony Yatsun, and Lital Leshem (who left the company in 2017). The company has 230 employees, with about 80 working at its development center in Israel.
Carbyne’s cloud-based technology helps emergency dispatch centers and first responders connect with callers and smart devices through secure communication channels, without needing a special app.
Its services are already used by many 911 centers in the U.S., including in Miami, Atlanta, and New Orleans, as well as in Mexico, Colombia, and by the emergency response company Global Medical Response.
In Israel, Carbyne’s clients include the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem municipalities and the emergency services group United Hatzalah. The company is headquartered in New York and has R&D and sales teams in Tel Aviv, Mexico, India, and Ukraine.
“Carbyne was created to modernize how help arrives, by giving emergency professionals the clarity, resilience, and confidence they need in critical moments,” said Elichai, Carbyne’s CEO. “Joining Axon allows us to scale that mission globally and integrate more deeply into the broader public safety ecosystem.”
Axon said the combined capabilities will allow emergency services to access data and intelligence from the very start of an incident, connecting 911 operators, field officers, and evidence management systems in a continuous digital chain. Together, the companies aim to create the most connected and intelligent 911 platform ever deployed, one that “transforms a call for help into the first moment of intelligence,” according to Rick Smith, Axon’s founder and CEO.
“Every year, more than 240 million 911 calls are made in the U.S., and in too many cases, vital information is lost between the call and the response,” said Smith. “By uniting Axon’s 30-year legacy of innovation with Carbyne’s cloud-based call management platform, we’re closing that gap, giving call takers and dispatchers instant visibility and connecting them directly to officers in the field.”
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