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Axial Partners
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Axial Partners is a venture capital company that sources and evaluates investment opportunities and syndicates interested parties into dedicated funds. It makes direct investments and co-investments and also lists exits.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense
In its own wordsclimatetechenergy transitionartificial intelligencelate stageco-investment
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Or find every investor that fitsAxial Partners lists 11 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (43%), Space & Defense (24%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (14%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside IQT, ARK Venture Fund and Koru Capital.
No funding round on record names Axial Partners yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Axial Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 11. 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 43% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 24% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 14% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 5% | 15% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers11100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 27th | 11 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 | 77th | 43% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Axial Partners head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
11 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayar Labs develops and manufactures co-packaged optics for hyperscale AI infrastructure | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Gatik operates autonomous freight networks, running driverless trucks for retailers and grocers across the U.S. and Canada. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Infleqtion builds neutral atom quantum computers, precision sensors, and software built to solve critical challenges for governments, businesses, and research institutions. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Lightmatter produces photonic chips for AI supercomputers. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Lilac Solutions develops and provides direct lithium extraction technology for various brine sources. | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Loft Orbital launches and operates satellites for various missions and customers | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| R3 Lithium produces lithium carbonate from recycled battery materials | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Stoke Space is building a space transportation system called Nova to launch, maneuver, return, and rapidly reconstitute critical space assets | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Synchron builds implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces to protect what makes you human. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Syntiant develops and provides physical AI solutions for various applications, including speech, audio, sensor, and vision applications. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Xona provides location services and navigational intelligence through its Pulsar ecosystem, offering advanced positioning, navigation, and timing infrastructure. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- axial.partners
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 11
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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