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Axiom just closed an oversubscribed, $50+ million inaugural Fund in one of the toughest fundraising environments in decades.

Our philosophy is simple: the best AI investors are the ones actively building with AI themselves. The team at Axiom backs founders reimagining the world with AI — and we're trying to do that ourselves.

Evan Morikawa was the former Head of Applied Engineering at OpenAI, and is now building the next great robotics foundation model company. Kipp Bodnar, the CMO of HubSpot, is building the AI-first marketing organization and rewriting the GTM playbook in an AI era. Paolo Perazzo is a serial AI entrepreneur, and is building Axiom itself to be an AI-first venture firm! Together with a deep network of AI builders across dozens of sectors, we help our founders build exceptional products and nail early go-to-market.

I, myself, have had the privilege of learning what greatness looks like up close. I invested alongside the legendary Vinod Khosla, the first outside investor in OpenAI, and was one of the earliest backers of Groq, which recently completed a $20 billion licensing and acquisition deal with Nvidia, the largest exit in AI to date. Before that, I was building machine learning products as VP Product at Skype (acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion), long before AI was a buzzword.

To invest in the future, you have to be living in it.

More on the firm and fundraise on Business Insider!

Our Thesis: AI for the Real World

We built Axiom on a simple but powerful belief: everyone deserves access to the best expertise and resources, whether in healthcare, education, financial advice, or technology. Every child should learn from the best teachers. Every patient should receive care from the most knowledgeable doctors. Every person should have access to the financial advice that was once reserved for the wealthy. AI makes this possible.

We back founders that use AI to improve the quality of life of 8 billion people globally, not just the elite 80 million. We call this “AI for the Real World.”

This goes well beyond automating existing software. It's about democratizing access to expertise and resources that have long been out of reach for most of the world - not because the solutions don't exist, but because there aren't enough skilled people to deliver them at scale. We call this the "capacity crunch," and it spans both the digital and physical world.

We don't chase the obvious. Instead, we invest at the PreSeed and Seed in founders that have a different view of what tomorrow looks like and are leveraging AI to build the next generation of category-defining companies.

If you're building AI for the Real World, let's talk!