Axle
Axle is the AI-native clearinghouse for insurance. Our infrastructure and AI agents automate complex insurance workflows for third parties including verification, monitoring, and policy updates. We've helped Fortune 500 businesses like Rocket Mortgage, Avis, and Experian speed up workflows by 95% while recovering over $220M in potential losses. Axle is backed by Gradient, Y Combinator, and the founding team of Plaid.
What matters now
- $17.5Mannounced
Announced a Series A ($17.5M round) on 11 Aug 2026.
A company that just raised has fresh capital, a new board and new vendors to choose.
FactPress release wires (PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire)For Investors, lenders, service providersFinancing history → - 3 investorsnamed
3 investors on record; Base10 Partners Management led a round.
The investors already on the cap table shape who leads the next round.
Facts
- Year of incorporation
- unknown
- Revenue range (Form D)
- unknown
- Rounds on record
- 1
- Disclosed raised
- $17.5Msum of rounds with a disclosed amount only
- Named investors
- 3
Financing history
- Aug 11, 2026Series A · $17.5M (disclosed)Stage 2 Capital Advisors (participant)Base10 Partners Management LLC (lead) via Adeyemi AjaoFact Press release · “Axle Raises $17.5M Series A to Connect Insurance Carriers to the Real Economy”
Investors on record
- Grdnt LLC portfolio listing Fact gradient.com
- Base10 Partners Management LLC round, lead, Adeyemi Ajao (confirmed) Fact prnewswire.com
- Stage 2 Capital Advisors round, participant Fact prnewswire.com
Ownership and outcomes
How these are wordedA company a buyout or growth firm lists on its own site is “listed in the portfolio of”, never “acquired by”. A date prints only when a deal record gives one; otherwise the row says when DFX first saw it.Listed on 1 firm portfolio page; none states an outcome (acquired, public, exited or active). DFX does not assume the company is active.
Evidence: 1 listingeach firm's own card, as read
- Status not stated on Grdnt LLC · the firm's card prints no outcome · read Sep 30, 2026 gradient.com“Axle”
Credit relationships
How a loan is matchedA BDC reports its loans by borrower name. A position shows here only when the match passed a precision gate (a hand-labelled sample was 29 of 30 correct); the tier and confidence are printed on each row. Amounts are the lender’s reported position, never a round.People
Timeline
- Aug 11, 2026Axle announced Series A of $17,500,000, led by Base10 PartnersRound announced Fact Press release
Evidence
Every observation on this company
- Description: Sep 19, 2026 Fact Company website
- Listed on portfolio page: Grdnt LLC Sep 30, 2026 Fact Firm website
- Listed on portfolio page: Grdnt LLC Sep 16, 2026 Fact Firm website
- Listed on portfolio page: Grdnt LLC Sep 14, 2026 Fact Firm website
- Round announced: Series A $17,500,000 Aug 11, 2026 Fact Press release
- Website status: ok Sep 19, 2026 Fact Company website
- Site title: Sep 19, 2026 Fact Company website
Relationships across DFX
6 capital paths
Axle sits on 6 traced paths of capital across the graphs.
DFX traced 6 paths of capital through this record
Every record on each path, what it committed or lent, and as of when.
Includes 3 days of DFX Intelligence. Then $199/month unless canceled.
Derived from allocator disclosures, BDC schedules and SEC filings; confidence is the weakest hop.
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Record history
- Listing repointed2026-10-01source on record
- Identifier moved2026-10-01
- Round announced2026-08-11source on record
The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.