Current Firm
Axial VC
Investments
10+ companies
Focus
Biotech, AI
About Joshua Elkington
Joshua Elkington is a founder-investor at Axial VC who brands the firm as an agency for great inventors, positioning himself as a long-term partner to individual inventors and founder-scientists rather than a traditional VC, with deep specialization in life sciences company formation. He operates at the intersection of life sciences and computer science, running the Axial Substack and Podcast where he publishes detailed strategy pieces on biotech business models and maintains close ties to the academic research community through his tracking of university labs and early-career scientists.
Focus Areas
BiotechAIDigital HealthAgriculture
Investment Stage
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Notable Investments
Julian Capital
Harpoon Ventures
Humba Ventures
Fifty Years
Deep Checks
Founders Fund
Lightspeed
Sequoia Capital
Kleiner Perkins
Funds that lead pre-seeds