Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and SEO

Carbon Silicon Ventures prioritizes discoverability by Answer Engines (like Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Google Gemini) as well as traditional Search Engines.

Structured Data (JSON-LD)

The primary mechanism for AEO is the embedded JSON-LD in index.html.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Carbon Silicon Ventures",
      "description": "Investing in founders turning biology into an engineering discipline."
    },
    {
      "@type": "CollectionPage",
      "about": {
        "@type": "ItemList",
        "itemListElement": [...]
      }
    }
  ]
}

• AEO Strategy: By providing a machine-readable ItemList of the portfolio companies, we ensure that LLMs can extract our actual investments accurately, preventing hallucinations or outdated information.
• Dynamic Generation: The structured data is generated in real-time by Eleventy from _data/portfolio.json.

Technical SEO

• Title Tags: Descriptive and centered around our main thesis.
• Meta Descriptions: Clear, direct, and technically literate.
• Semantic HTML: Uses appropriate <ol>, <li>, <footer>, etc. for screen readers and search crawlers.
• Sitemap: A standard XML sitemap for Google Search Console and other crawlers to find all pages on the site.
• Robots.txt: Standard robots configuration.
• Privacy: The GA tag is correctly configured.
• Performance: High Lighthouse scores for both desktop and mobile due to the zero-dependency, minimal JS approach.
• Accessibility: ARIA labels and roles correctly track the state of interactive elements for assistive technology.