Amir Elichai

Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman Carbyne

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Amir Elichai founded Carbyne, a cloud-native emergency communications company whose NG911 platform gives call centers caller location, video, text and real-time data that legacy 911 systems could not handle. He started the company in 2015 with Alex Dizengof and Yony Yatsun, after a mugging on a Tel Aviv beach showed him that the police could not find a caller. By 2025 Carbyne served hundreds of agencies that protect more than 250 million people. Axon, an investor in the company, bought it outright in February 2026 for a base price of $625 million. Carbyne’s own site still lists him as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman.

Career Highlights

• Founded Carbyne in 2015 and led it as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman.
• Built Carbyne into a cloud-native emergency communications platform serving hundreds of agencies that protect more than 250 million people.
• Raised more than $200 million for Carbyne from investors including AT&T, according to Ctech.
• Sold Carbyne to Axon. The deal was announced in November 2025 and closed in February 2026 at a base price of $625 million.
• Before Carbyne, launched Sky Project (later Sky Holdings), a deal-flow network that moved into early-stage cybersecurity investing and helped incubate Carbyne.
• Served five years in the IDF’s Egoz special forces unit.

Professional Journey

Elichai grew up in Ashdod, Israel, and served five years in the Israel Defense Forces’ Egoz special forces unit. According to Axon, he then held Israeli security roles in New York before launching Sky Project, later Sky Holdings. Axon describes it as a deal-flow network, built before LinkedIn, that moved into early-stage cybersecurity investing and later helped incubate Carbyne.

Carbyne began with a robbery. Elichai, then a law student, was robbed on a beach and called the police. He told Ctech the call went badly because the police could not find him: “How can it be that in the 21st century I’m calling the police and they don’t know anything about me?” The company puts it more directly on its own site: “If Uber can pinpoint your location, why can’t emergency services?” He founded Carbyne in 2015 with Alex Dizengof and Yony Yatsun to bring emergency communications into the cloud. The company added caller location, text, video sharing and real-time data exchange to a 911 system largely built for voice calls.

Carbyne grew into a provider of NG911 call handling for public safety agencies, with offices in New York, Mexico City, Tel Aviv and Lisbon and customers in the United States, Israel and Latin America. It raised more than $200 million, including from AT&T. By its own account it employs more than 200 people. Its advisory board has included two former US Secretaries of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen and Michael Chertoff.

In November 2025 Axon agreed to buy Carbyne at a valuation of $625 million, and it completed the purchase in February 2026. Axon already owned about 11% of the company. Elichai said Carbyne “was created to modernize how help arrives” and that joining Axon would let it “scale that mission globally.” Axon now sells Carbyne’s call-handling technology as Axon 911 Core, by Carbyne. In July 2026 Elichai appeared on Axon’s Boldly Go podcast with Axon founder and CEO Rick Smith. Carbyne’s site continues to list him as its Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. This profile could not confirm his exact role inside Axon after the acquisition.

Education

No degree was found in any source reviewed. Ctech reports that he was a law student when he founded Carbyne, but it does not name an institution or a degree.