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Fixing the data handoffs that slow drug development.

Axio BioPharma is building the vendor-neutral data infrastructure for biomanufacturing — solving the handoff problem between sponsors and CDMOs that costs the industry months of delay per program.

Headquarters
Madison, WI
Founded
2024
Stage
Seed

Fragmented manufacturing data is the quiet tax on every biologics program.

Fragmented, siloed data between drug sponsors and CDMOs prevents AI from delivering real value and costs the industry months of delay per program.

Axio solves the data handoff problem by connecting and standardizing manufacturing data across organizations — without centralizing it. Data stays local to each partner; meaning is standardized across the network.

Two connected business lines

A services base that funds a venture-scale network.

Revenue base

Axio Forge

Non-GMP antibody lab · fee-for-service

High-throughput antibody lab generating fee-for-service revenue. Zero incremental capex for current growth.

Venture upside

Axio Lattice

Federated data platform · recurring subscription

Vendor-neutral infrastructure connecting manufacturing data across sponsors and CDMOs. Data stays local; meaning is standardized. High-margin recurring revenue.

Investors underwrite the services base. The Network provides the venture-scale return.

Competitive moat

Why Axio is the one that can stand in the middle.

01  —  Neutrality

Credibly neutral by structure

Large CDMOs cannot host the network. Sponsors will not put proprietary process data on a competitor's platform. Axio's independence is the product.

02  —  Standards

Axio owns the schemas

Each deployment compounds reusable connectors, mappings, and governance — making every additional site faster to onboard and late entry harder.

03  —  Wet-lab engine

Revenue-generating from day one

The lab generates the real manufacturing data that seeds the network, keeps the team close to execution, and pays its own way while the platform compounds.

Leadership

Built by operators who have done this work.

Justin Byers

Justin Byers

Founder, CEO

Biopharma PD and commercial leader focused on building biomanufacturing services from the ground up.

Brian Staats

Brian Staats

Co-founder, CTO

Technology leader specializing in bioinformatics with 20+ years in modeling, data science, and engineering.

Dave Watrous

Dave Watrous

Chief Commercial Officer

Senior executive with 20+ years driving global growth and operational excellence across bioprocessing, SaaS, and CDMO organizations.

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