AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. acquires Carbyne Ltd.
Snapshot
AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. acquired Carbyne Ltd. for approximately $625.0 million base purchase price (all cash), subject to customary purchase price and working capital adjustments in February 2026. The transaction was structured as all cash. Carbyne Ltd. is a Software & Services - emergency communications / Axon 911 business.
- Acquirer
- AXON ENTERPRISE, INC.
- Target
- Carbyne Ltd.
- Value
- approximately $625.0 million base purchase price (all cash), subject to customary purchase price and working capital adjustments
- Date
- February 2026
- Type
- full acquisition
- Status
- ready
The deal at a glance
About this deal
AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. acquired Carbyne Ltd. for approximately $625.0 million base purchase price (all cash), subject to customary purchase price and working capital adjustments, a transaction completed in February 2026, structured as all cash.
Carbyne Ltd. operates in Software & Services - emergency communications / Axon 911. Carbyne is a leading cloud-native emergency communications and response platform offering a full-stack, cloud-native 911 call-taking platform with embedded AI for agencies choosing to replace legacy 911 infrastructure.
Axon stated that Prepared and Carbyne are complementary platforms that modernize 911 call taking and response and pave the way for Axon 911 - linking the first moment of crisis to every action that follows, with solutions natively integrated into Axon's network to cut high-priority response times from seven to ten minutes to as little as 120 seconds.
Carbyne provides a full-stack, cloud-native call-taking platform with embedded AI for agencies replacing legacy 911 infrastructure, complementing Prepared's overlay approach. Combined with Prepared, anchors the Axon 911 ecosystem - natively integrated 911 call-handling and AI communications connected to Axon's real-time operations and evidence-management software. Part of Axon's Software & Services / Axon 911 offering Axon FY2025 shareholder letter (Feb 24, 2026): "Our acquisitions of Prepared, which closed late last year, and Carbyne, which closed in the first quarter of 2026, are driving Axon's extension into this new product category..."
No advisory firms have been disclosed for this transaction.