About

A small team running originationfor buyers of small companies.

Axia started in a dorm room in 2024 and now runs off-market sourcing campaigns for search funds, sponsors, and PE firms. Two people lead the work, with a trained origination team on the phones.

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What Axia is

An outsourced origination team for lower-middle-market buyers.

We find and qualify off-market targets for search funds, independent sponsors, private equity firms, and strategic acquirers. You give us a buy box. We pull every company that fits it, find the owner's direct line and email, and then conduct coordinated multi-channel outreach to each one. Leads who say they would consider selling get a screening call from us before we introduce them to you.

Every mandate runs the same loop. We select the right data sources and construct the list, test messaging and channel against it, then qualify every responder before it reaches you. A few thousand data points a week tell us which assumptions were wrong, and the campaign changes that week.

Outreach is owned by our origination interns, a selective program drawing students headed into investment banking and private equity, who complete a five-week training curriculum before they are assigned to a client's campaign.

Who we work with

Lower middle market buyers

Search funds, independent sponsors, PE firms, and strategics acquiring companies between roughly $1M and $10M of EBITDA.

What you get

Qualified owner conversations

Not a contact list. Owners who have taken a call, cleared the buy box on the basics, and agreed to speak with you.

How we run

Software we own

Sourcing, sequencing, call outcomes, and caller performance live in one platform we built, so the process can change the same week the data does.

The team

Leadership

Axia is led by a two-person leadership team, supported by more than 25 people on the origination side and an internal operating system consuming roughly $30,000 in tokens every month. AI handles the repetitive work so our people stay on the conversations.

Mike Lukasevicz

Founder & CEO

Mike started Axia out of his dorm room in 2024, after turning down an investment banking offer. Leveraging his experience with AI and fintech startups, he believed that deal sourcing would become one of the most in-demand skills in M&A over the next decade.

Axia has been fully bootstrapped since day one with zero outside investment. Mike started from the ground up and ran every mandate himself for the first six months, making and sending thousands of cold calls and emails. Once the core system was working, he began building a team to execute at scale.

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Ava Kelly

Head of Operations

Ava joined in mid-2025 when Axia's constraint became people. Having graduated with a psychology degree, she has a unique ability to understand and lead people.

Ava was instrumental in building our origination internship program and now oversees the program end-to-end, from sourcing candidates on campus through the written exam and training.

She also runs internal account operations, focusing on staffing the right callers on the right mandates, and holding the standard on every touchpoint that goes out on our client's behalf.

Our tooling

We run on software we built ourselves.

Axia runs on Operation Kit, an operations platform Mike built. Work is opened as a card and executed by AI coding agents on our own infrastructure, with scheduled jobs running the recurring pieces on their own.

Data sourcing runs, infrastructure provisioning and health monitoring, CRM hygiene, and the rest of the repetitive pipeline operations are handled there rather than by a person. Owning the tooling means the process can change on a Tuesday instead of waiting on a vendor.

Data sourcing runs and list construction

Infrastructure provisioning for outreach

Deliverability and inbox health monitoring

CRM records, call outcomes, and sequence state

Scheduled jobs for anything recurring