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Axle

Universal API for insurance

axle.insure
HQ: New York, NY, USA
1-10
Fintech

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 28, 2026

Overview

Axle Labs, Inc. (Axle) is an active New York-based insurtech building an AI-native clearinghouse for property-and-casualty insurance. Its infrastructure and AI agents turn fragmented insurance information into permissioned, machine-readable data and automate verification, monitoring, document extraction, policy validation, and updates.

Primary product

A universal insurance-data API and workflow platform: Verification, Monitoring, Document AI, Validation, Ignition (consumer consent/collection), Dashboard, and Axle for Platforms. Axle describes the product as “Plaid for insurance.”

Founded

2022

Headquarters

New York City, New York, United States

Team size

20–30 (public company-profile estimate; YC previously listed 10)

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Software Development / Insurtech

Sub-industry

Insurance-data infrastructure, embedded insurance technology, and workflow automation

Offices

New York City, New York, United States (Flatiron/NoMad HQ)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Business model

B2B SaaS/API
Usage-based or enterprise platform pricing (specific rates not public)
Low-code/no-code insurance workflow software
Enterprise integrations and implementation

Funding

Stage

Seed-stage, privately held

Total raised

$8.6M

Latest round

Seed · Apr 2023

Latest amount

$4M

Seed

Apr 2023 · Gradient Ventures

$4M

People & investors

Leadership

Cameron Duncan

Co-Founder & CEO

Nihar Parikh

Co-Founder & CTO

Armaan Sikand

Co-Founder & COO

Thomas DellaCroce

Enterprise Sales Director

Investors

BLH Ventures
Carl Tremblay
Chris Aragon
Contrary Capital
Former Cox Automotive executives
Former executives from Cox Automotive
Gradient Ventures
John Phelps
Joshua Pyle
Mathias Lenk
Plaid founding team angels
Plaid founding team members
Rebel Fund
Soma Capital
Vince Zappa
Y Combinator

Work & culture

High-agency, product-first engineering culture focused on real customer impact, fast execution, and a lean/high-velocity startup environment. The NYC team is expected in person four days per week; some roles are listed for Atlanta or remote within the United States.

Work style

Onsite

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

Public job postings show salary plus equity. Examples range from approximately $80,000–$95,000 plus 0.02%–0.03% equity for Implementation Specialist to $215,000–$270,000 plus 0.20%–0.40% equity for Staff Engineer; Enterprise Sales Director postings show $260,000–$320,000 plus 0.10%–0.50% equity. Staff Engineer eligibility is described as US citizen/visa only, not general sponsorship.

Benefits

Full benefits
401(k)
Unlimited time off
Annual team offsite
Equity in job postings

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed; appears to be enterprise/API sales with usage or workflow-based pricing and demo-led purchasing.

Differentiators

  • —Permissioned, real-time insurance-data access rather than manual phone calls and paper forms
  • —AI agents for verification, monitoring, document extraction, and policy validation
  • —Universal policy specification across auto, home, condo, renters, and flood insurance
  • —API plus low-code/no-code and dashboard interfaces
  • —SOC 2 Type 2 compliance
  • —Deep focus on cross-industry use cases such as lending, rental cars, dealerships, and platforms

Technology

TypeScript
Node.js
JavaScript
Python
AWS
React
GraphQL
MongoDB
SQL
Microservices
Event-driven architecture
OAuth
Playwright
Apollo Client
Retool

Customers

Rocket Mortgage
Avis
Experian
JLR North Atlanta
Mortgage servicers
Rental-car companies
Auto dealers and auto lenders
Employers and platforms

Competitors

Plaid
Verisk
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Socotra
Guideline/insurance-verification and embedded-insurance API providers

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $1M–$10M annual revenue/ARR; the CEO publicly described the business as having reached “7 figures ARR” in an October 2025 recruiting post. This is an estimate, not a reported financial statement.

Estimated monthly visits

19.2K

Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026

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Latest news

Axle Teams With Experian to Bring Insurance Verification to Automotive Dealers to Reduce Fraud

PR Newswire · Feb 2026

Axle announced a strategic collaboration with Experian to embed real-time automotive insurance verification into Experian's Fraud Protect platform for dealers and lenders.

Axle Teams With Experian to Bring Insurance Verification to Automotive Dealers to Reduce Fraud

Axle · Feb 2026

Axle announced integration of real-time automotive insurance verification into Experian Fraud Protect for dealer and lender fraud prevention, including policy, VIN, and lienholder checks.

Feature Spotlight: August 2025

Axle · Sep 2025

Axle highlighted renters-insurance support, flood-insurance support, and dashboard improvements for monitoring customers.

Introducing Flood Insurance

Axle · Aug 2025

Axle launched wide-release support for flood-policy verification through its existing insurance-data API.

Feature Spotlight: July 2025

Axle · Jul 2025

Axle announced reusable policy-validation templates and multi-image document scanning in Ignition.

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Jobs and careers at Axle

34 jobs at Axle

Computer Programmer

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Rockville, MD; Axle Informatics LLC
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Clinical Program Manager

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Biologist (Mass Spectrometry)

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Senior Advisor

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Research Biologist

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Cryo-Electron Microscopy Specialist

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Executive Assistant

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Accounting Operations Manager

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Finance Operations Manager

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Regulatory Document Coordinator and Training Manager

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Cybersecurity Research Assistant

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Senior Data Scientist, AI Retrieval Systems

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Senior Data Scientist, Agentic AI Systems

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Senior Clinical Advisor - (Family Nurse Practitioner)

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Associate Director of Data and Modeling

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Full Stack Developer

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Computer Scientist

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Senior Contracts Administrator

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Manager of Business Development & Sales - Healthcare Technology (Provider Solutions)

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EHR Healthcare Administrator

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Finance and Accounting Associate

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Data Scientist II

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Contracts Administrator

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Program Director

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Temporary - Clinical Research Coordinator

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Site Reliability Engineer

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Bioinformatics/Data Scientist

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Director of Data Solutions

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Electron Microscopy Specialist

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IT Operations Technical Lead

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Senior Full Stack Developer

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AI/ML Scientist/Developer

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