Axios is a new media company delivering vital, trustworthy news and analysis in the most efficient, illuminating, and shareable ways possible. The company offers a mix of original and smartly narrated coverage of media trends, tech, business, and politics with expertise, voice, and smart brevity on a new and innovative mobile platform. Axios, the Greek word for worthy, provides only content worthy of people's time, attention, and trust.
Axios publishes news, as well as focuses on business, technology, politics, science, and media trends. It also served as a farm team for political reporters who have since gone on to high-profile spots at outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Total raised
$30M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
Jim VandeHei
Former co-founder and executive editor of Politico; co-founded Axios in 2016. Co-author of Smart Brevity. Chairman of Axios HQ.
LinkedInMike Allen
Former Politico journalist and author of the Politico Playbook newsletter; co-founded Axios in 2016.
LinkedInRoy Schwartz
Former Politico executive; co-founded Axios in 2016. Later became CEO of Axios HQ.
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