Investors / Axial
Axial
Venture capital
Axial invests in early-stage life sciences companies, often when they are no more than an idea. It partners with founders and inventors to help them build enduring businesses.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordslife sciencesearly stagebiotech
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Or find every investor that fitsAxial lists 44 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (84%), AI & Machine Learning (7%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (5%). 86% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Civilization Ventures and OMX Ventures.
No funding round on record names Axial yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Axial's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 44. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 80th | 44 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 94th | 84% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4295%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company25%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 84% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 7% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 2% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 2% | 6% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Axial head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
44 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptyv provides automated lab services for protein validation and design | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aperiam Bio identifies hyperfolding variants of target proteins with improved expression, solubility, and specific activity | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Arda Therapeutics is taking aim at chronic diseases by eliminating the pathogenic cells that drive them. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Attivare Therapeutics develops personalized cancer immunotherapy treatments using artificial intelligence and biomaterials | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BigHat Biosciences designs and develops therapeutics by integrating AI with autonomous generation of biological data. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BluumBio develops innovative technologies that clean up the planet using microbes to remove industrial chemicals from the environment | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bristle sells oral health tests and probiotics to help customers identify and address oral health problems | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Catena Biosciences develops therapeutic structures, including antibody-drug conjugates, using its CysTyr conjugation platform. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | |||
| CHARM Therapeutics is delivering transformational medicines through the understanding of protein-ligand interactions, specifically developing menin inhibitors to treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Concerto Bio develops consumer health products using microbe-based ingredients. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Deciduous Therapeutics develops novel medicines to eliminate senescent cells and treat age-related diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Delix Therapeutics is developing novel therapeutics to address brain health challenges | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Enable Medicine licenses an integrated, AI-ready index of clinical, spatial, cellular, and molecular data spanning 20+ disease areas | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Euler Biologics is developing antibody-based therapies designed to preserve and enhance physical function for older adults | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Glyphic Biotechnologies is developing a high-throughput proteome sequencing technology | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| HTuO Biosciences elevates drug discovery by leveraging advanced physics models to unlock transformative patient treatments. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Inductive Bio develops and applies chemical intelligence for drug discovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Infinimmune develops human-derived antibody medicines | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- axialvc.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 44
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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