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Founder @Axion. Rethinking enterprise intelligence: how AI changes the way companies observe, decide, and evolve.

New York, USA
Joined June 2017
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An interest graph, linked with your other data, would also proactively suggest to you personalized new interests you should have, based on what’s happening in your life, where you’re showing early signs of interest and where you’re stuck, informed by interest vector trajectories of similar people
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Interesting that the agents ended up hierarchical. AI labs have been optimizing the architecture of individual models. But as agents get more capable, swarm org architecture may become just as important: hierarchy vs decentralized coordination, specialists vs generalists, who gets authority, who talks to whom, how disagreement gets resolved. Do they copy human org designs, or make their own agent-optimal ones? Feels like we’re going to spend a lot more time figuring out how groups of agents should be organized.
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After product release, there’s a feedback loop phase - of learning customer needs & product failures from new product introductions, to inform the next product introduction. Shortening this learning loop will also be a critical focus of AI
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This is what we built at Axion - agents that can learn tribal knowledge from humans, and use it to root cause & countermeasure issues in manufacturing
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Would love to join
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Daniel First retweeted
Thrilled to announce Axion's inaugural Industry Advisory Board. These senior operating leaders are shaping how manufacturers are using AI to accelerate product innovation & improve quality proactively. Read more:hubs.la/Q04f3JmQ0
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Daniel First retweeted
.@chasi_ai deploys AI agents for the $1T+ equipment distribution industry, helping dealers sell more, respond faster, and maximize fleet utilization - 24/7. Congrats @akashpavan & @SarmanAulakh on the launch! ycombinator.com/launches/PSj…
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We've led @axion_ray's Series B 🚀 Manufacturing is increasingly complex. Axion’s AI observability platform helps teams detect issues early, find root causes fast, and prevent costly failures. Cheers to @DanielFirstAx & the entire Axion team 🙌 salesforceventures.com/persp…
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Proud to share our Series B & mission to help manufacturers solve the top issues impacting their customers
Our $37M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures, with SE Ventures & Bessemer, Axion expands our mission to help the world’s most innovative manufacturers detect issues earlier, fix them faster, and deliver products customers truly love. 🔗 hubs.la/Q03Y9ckH0
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To win in data centers, we’ll need to use AI to bring power systems to market that customers love, by reducing downtime & improving quality & performance. Thanks @SchneiderElec for a great panel
Exciting day today at the Schneider Electric Innovation Summit! Great to be part of the Schneider Electric Ventures Panel “AI-Native Startups Changing the Game” and the Innovation Park Startup Showcase!
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Daniel First retweeted
Axion Ray is proud to be named one of the top startups driving innovation in dual-use technology by the Silicon Valley Defense Group in their 2025 report, #NatSec100. https://www.natsec100. We're proud to be building technology for critical domains, like defense.
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@BessemerVP new Vertical AI report this week, on AxionRay - “The meteoric rise of [Vertical AI] businesses…provide unprecedented value: AI facilitates work that was previously impossible to achieve. Axion Ray helps manufacturers by analyzing large volumes of product data.”
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Proud to be featured in Bessemer's 2024 State of the Cloud "With early startup leaders such as...Axion...growing at impressive clips…we predict we will see at least five Vertical AI Centaurs ($100M+ ARR) emerge within the next two to three years."
State of the Cloud 2024 is out! ☁️☁️☁️ Dive into the five AI trends transforming the cloud economy and beyond — bessemervp.team/3Xz8keI
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If you’re in NY, this is an amazing company to join — very strong growth and an obvious why now
"Imagine that you're the head of engineering overseeing a Boeing fleet, how do you know - what are the top emerging issues impacting your customers?" Hear our founder Daniel First share Axion's mission to support engineering leaders @foundersysk m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5LoW4…
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This week, I shared the @axion_ray mission of proactive intelligence at the @foundersysk meetup, where the New York engineering & AI startup community came together. It was a great opportunity to connect with entrepreneurial operators & engineering talent and discuss our vision for the future. A big thank you to @nifferkin and her team for organizing the evening! >> We're hiring for roles across the company, check out axionray.com/careers #AxionRay #FoundersYouShouldKnow #AICommunity #NewYorkEngineering
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Daniel First retweeted
On Tuesday, we proudly announced our Series A funding. This investment will fuel our mission to empower manufacturers worldwide to detect, investigate, and resolve emerging product issues. Read more about our mission in our recent blog by @DanielFirstAx axionray.com/introducing-axi…
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