About Axy
We were frustrated researchers too
We started Axy because we lived the problem. Now we're building the research tools we wish we'd had.
Why we exist
Have you ever missed a paper that could have changed your research?
We have. As PhD students and scientists ourselves, we lived the frustration every day — scrolling through thousand-page conference programs, losing track of papers in scattered Google Docs, and discovering months later that someone down the hall was working on the exact same problem.
Science's most important connections still happen by accident. A chance encounter at a conference. A colleague mentioning a paper over coffee. Stumbling on a poster you almost walked past. We think that's not good enough. Too many breakthroughs almost didn't happen.
So we're building the tools we wish we'd had — infrastructure that makes those connections inevitable instead of accidental. Not by replacing how scientists think, but by removing the bottlenecks that keep them from finding each other, and from finding the work that matters most.
What we believe
The best research tools remove bottlenecks, not replace thinking
Researchers deserve tools as good as the ones developers have
The next breakthrough is hiding in a connection nobody's made yet
Great science shouldn't depend on who you happen to meet
The team
Scientists, builders, engineers
We're a small team of scientists and engineers based in Geneva, Switzerland, with backgrounds from ETH Zürich, IIT Bombay, University of Geneva, and IBM. We've shipped products used by 10,000+ researchers across 150+ conferences. We started Axy because we lived the frustration ourselves as PhD students — disorganized conferences, scattered reading lists, and the nagging feeling that we were missing important work happening just outside our field.
Our journey
From lab to platform
Started as a side project to fix our own conference frustrations. Built the first prototype for a neuroscience conference.
Scaled across scientific disciplines. 80% adoption rate at announced conferences. Researchers at NYU, Oxford, Cambridge, and ETH Zürich.
Expanded beyond conferences. Launched Journal Clubs for lab meetings. Started piloting Knowledge Graph for concept-level field mapping.
Our vision: a unified daily-driver tool for researchers. Connecting papers, knowledge graphs, conferences, and collaboration in one place.
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Get in touch
Say hello
Whether you want to bring Axy to your conference, try Journal Clubs with your lab, or just chat about science infrastructure.
Or email us directly at [email protected]