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We have a big new release. Carbon Arc releases Block!
When Kirk McKeown left Point 72 to start a data infrastructure company, many thought he was crazy. Why walk away from the hedge fund life to build a business? He was early to where data was going, why AI would need more data, why the infrastructure behind data would be difficult to build, and why outcome-based and consumption-based models were the future. Today Carbon Arc is a powerful data infrastructure company being leveraged by the largest corporations, hedge funds, and asset managers in the world. It’s exciting to watch what they built, as I met Kirk many years ago when we were both still working in the Hudson Yards at different hedge funds and were put on a panel together. Today, his company Carbon Arc works closely with the INITIALDATAOFFERING.COM platform, which gives me a line of sight into everything they are building! Their ability to offer endless datasets via one MCP connection is such a big game-changer for anyone using data in their day job.
The big release from Carbon Arc this week was their Block product. You can check out the full details in their 4 slides here:
The pain of finding data, trialing data, looking at samples, testing data, testing across multiple datasets, all while having legal, compliance, and all the sign-offs in place, is now possible on Block. The platform makes months of friction turn into instant access. This is only possible because the team has spent years building the infrastructure, relationships, contracts, and access. You can now browse and request access instantly. No more ingestion pipelines or NDAs per vendor.
Access to data at scale with governance at the forefront. For data buyers- this is the new normal. For data vendors, this is the ability to scale distribution.
Carbon Arc has the platform, the MCP, and the distribution- the future is exciting!
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