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Axiom

Onchain trading platform for DeFi — memecoins, perpetuals, and yield via Solana and other chains.
Crypto 📍 San Francisco, USA Founded 2024
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2025-Q1
PRIVATE

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Axiom going public?
No. Axiom is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Axiom's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Axiom. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Axiom filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Axiom.
Who are Axiom's investors?
Axiom's investors include Y Combinator.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Axiom (NOT to be confused with Axiom Space, the separate orbital infrastructure company) is a DeFi trading platform offering memecoin, perpetual, and yield products primarily on Solana. Founded in 2024 by Preston Ellis and Henry Zhang, the company joined Y Combinator Winter 2025 with a $500k pre-seed — their only outside funding. Forbes reported Axiom became 'YC's biggest hit' on the back of $10M monthly recurring revenue.

Company Profile

CEO
Preston Ellis
Founded
2024
HQ
San Francisco, USA
Employees
~5
Total Raised
$500,000
Est. Revenue
$120M (2025-Q4)
Growth
~10M MRR / 5M monthly net revenue
Last Round
Pre-seed — $500,000 (Jan 2025) · Lead: Y Combinator
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Pre-seed · $500,000 · 1y 7mo ago
privateTotal raised $500,000

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Pre-seed$500,000Jan 2025Y Combinator

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
Hiring uptrend
56% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
18
via greenhouse
Product-build share
0%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
expanding
go-to-market push — Only 0% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (10 of 18 open roles are sales).
No tracked executive churn; open roles trending up.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month18Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionSales & GTM10Legal & Policy3Ops & People2Other2Finance & Strategy1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Business Development Executive (Graduate Opportunity)Business Development Representative (September 2026 Start)Business Development Representative Contracts Counsel - Hospitals/Healthcare ProvidersContracts Counsel - Hospitals/Healthcare ProvidersCorporate Controller
Counted from Axiom's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Preston EllisHenry Zhang

Investors

Y Combinator

Products

  • Axiom Memecoin Trading
  • Axiom Perpetuals
  • Axiom Yield

Competitors

BullX · Photon · Trojan · GMGN.AI · Jupiter
cryptodefimemecoinssolanaperpetualstrading
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.