Built by scientists, for scientists
Axy was born from a simple observation: the most important scientific breakthroughs happen when knowledge from different domains connects in unexpected ways. De Broglie connected waves and particles. mRNA vaccines connected decades of immunology with molecular biology. Ozempic traces back to Gila monster venom research. Yet the infrastructure to discover these connections didn't exist — until now.
From the lab to the platform
How a neuroscientist's frustration with conferences became the missing infrastructure for science.
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The problem we lived
Our founder spent years attending neuroscience conferences — hundreds of talks, thousands of posters, and no way to find the ones that mattered most. The best discoveries happened by accident in hallways, not by design. Meanwhile, every scientist carried a mental map of their field that had never been made explicit or shareable. We knew there had to be a better way.
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Conferences reimagined
We started where the pain was sharpest: scientific conferences. What if AI could match you with the talks, posters, and people most relevant to your research? Axy's conference apps launched in 2023 and quickly scaled to 145+ conferences serving 10,000+ researchers, with 80% adoption rates at announced events. Conferences like Cosyne, ECVP, and those organized by the International Headache Society now run on Axy.
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Expanding the ecosystem
Conferences happen yearly, but science happens daily. We built journal club tools so research labs could maintain the collaborative momentum between events. Today, 25+ labs at institutions including NYU, Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Geneva use Axy for their weekly paper discussions — completely free for academic groups.
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The knowledge graph vision
Every conference abstract and every journal club discussion feeds into something bigger: collaborative knowledge graphs where concepts are nodes, relationships are edges, and papers serve as evidence. Like GitHub transformed software development through collaboration, Axy is building the same infrastructure for scientific knowledge. Our first pilot with Prof. Thibaud Gruber at the University of Geneva is mapping the primate research landscape — and this is just the beginning.