ἀξία(axia)/ak·SEE·uh/nounGreek for value.
About
For acquirers, exclusive outbound campaigns. For owners, an introduction to the best-fit buyer or advisor. Two people lead the work, with a trained origination team on the phones.
Origin storySince 2024
First six months
Mike ran every mandate himself.
Owners contacted by one of our callers can find out more at axiagrowth.com/owners.
01What Axia is
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 run coordinated multi-channel outreach to each one.
Owners who would consider selling get a screening call from us before we introduce them to you.
Outreach is owned by our origination interns, a selective program drawing students headed into investment banking and private equity. They complete a five-week training curriculum before joining a client's campaign.
01Who we work with
Search funds, independent sponsors, PE firms, and strategics acquiring companies between roughly $1M and $10M of EBITDA.
02What you get
Not a contact list. Owners who have taken a call, cleared the buy box on the basics, and agreed to speak with you.
03How we run
Sourcing, sequencing, call outcomes, and caller performance live in one platform we built, so the process can change the same week the data does.
02The loop
Per mandateWeekly
03The team
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.
Managing PartnerFounder
Mike started Axia out of his dorm room in 2024, after turning down an investment banking offer. Coming from AI and fintech startups, he believed deal sourcing would become one of the most in-demand skills in M&A over the next decade.
Fully bootstrapped since day one. He ran every mandate himself for the first six months, making and sending thousands of cold calls and emails. Once the core system worked, he built a team to execute at scale.
Head of Operations
Ava joined when Axia's constraint became people. A psychology graduate, she has a rare ability to understand and lead people.
She built our origination internship program and now runs it end to end, from sourcing candidates on campus through the written exam and training.
She also runs account operations: staffing the right callers on the right mandates, and holding the standard on every touchpoint that goes out on a client's behalf.
04Our tooling
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.
Handled by Operation KitNot by a person
ἀξία is Greek for value. We find it on both sides of the table.
Buyers get off-market deal flow. Owners get the right introduction.
Axia Growth LLC provides deal origination services and is not a registered broker-dealer, investment adviser, bank, or depository institution. Where Axia's compensation is contingent on closing, it relies on the M&A broker exemption (15 U.S.C. § 78o(b)(13)) and analogous state exemptions, where available. Axia is typically engaged and paid by the acquirer, does not represent sellers, and does not provide, arrange, or receive compensation for transaction financing. See full disclaimer: /legal/disclaimer