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Axial Age
The Axial Age (Achsenzeit) is a proposed period, roughly 800 to 300 BCE, when civilizations in Greece, India, China, Israel, and Iran independently developed new philosophical and religious traditions.
Axial Therapeutics
Axial Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in Woburn, Massachusetts, founded in 2016 as a Caltech spinout, developing gut-restricted small-molecule drugs targeting the gut-brain axis for autism and Parkinson's disease.
Axiom Asia Private Capital
Axiom Asia Private Capital is a Singapore-based private equity fund of funds founded in 2006 by former GIC investors, committing to managers across Asia-Pacific through primaries, secondaries, and co-investments.
Axiom Math
Axiom Math (Axiom Quant Inc.) is an AI mathematics startup founded in Palo Alto, California, in 2025 by Carina Letong Hong, which raised $264 million in its first year.
Axios (ΛXIOS) (website)
Axios (stylized logo resembling ΛXIOS) is an American news website and newsletter publisher founded in 2016 by ex-Politico founders Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz, known for Smart Brevity and sold to Cox Enterprises in 2022 for $525 million.
Axiota Animal Health
Axiota Animal Health is a cattle-health company formed in 2019 by Paine Schwartz Partners and headquartered in Wamego, Kansas, whose products, including Multimin 90 and Lactipro, reach producers in more than 30 countries.
Axis Bank
Axis Bank Limited, formerly UTI Bank until 2007, is an Indian private-sector commercial bank, the third largest private bank in India, serving about 54 million customers.
Axis Capital Holdings
Axis Capital Holdings is a Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer founded in 2001 after September 11, underwriting through AXIS Insurance and AXIS Re, with $9.6 billion of gross premiums in 2025.
Axis leaders of World War II
Axis leaders of World War II: Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Emperor Hirohito with PM Hideki Tojo (Japan), heads of the Tripartite Pact alliance of 1940, plus leaders of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Croatia.
Axis mundi
Axis mundi (Latin, world axis) is a comparative-religion term for the sacred center linking earth, heaven, and underworld, figured as tree, mountain, pillar, or temple; theorized by Mircea Eliade and disputed by later scholars.
Axis occupation of Greece
Axis occupation of Greece (1941–1944): tripartite German, Italian, and Bulgarian occupation after the April 1941 invasion, marked by famine, economic exploitation, the Holocaust in Greece, resistance, and the October 1944 German withdrawal.
Axis of evil
Axis of evil: phrase from George W. Bush's January 29, 2002 State of the Union address labeling Iran, Iraq, and North Korea; coined by speechwriter David Frum, evoking the WWII Axis and Reagan's evil empire.
Axis of Justice
Axis of Justice is a nonprofit co-founded in 2002 by Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, linking musicians, fans, and grassroots groups for social justice; its 501(c)(3) foundation (EIN 58-2670102) was formed in 2005.
Axis of Resistance (محور المقاومة)
Axis of Resistance (محور المقاومة), Iran-led informal network of allied armed groups and state actors including Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iraqi PMF militias, Hamas, and PIJ, degraded since October 2023.
Axis powers
The Axis powers were the World War II coalition of Germany, Italy, and Japan (Achsenmächte, 樹軍国), formalized by the 1940 Tripartite Pact after the 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact and Rome–Berlin Axis; joined by Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Croatia, defeated in 1945.
Axon Enterprise
Axon Enterprise, known until 2017 as TASER International, is an American company in Scottsdale, Arizona, making TASER weapons, police body cameras, and digital evidence software.
Axonics Modulation Technologies
Axonics Modulation Technologies, renamed Axonics, Inc. in 2021, is an Irvine, California medical technology company founded in 2012 that made the first rechargeable sacral neuromodulation system, treating overactive bladder and fecal incontinence.
Axonius
Axonius is a New York-based cybersecurity company founded in 2017 that aggregates data from a company's existing security and IT tools into one inventory of devices, users, and software.
Axpo
Axpo, or Axpo Holding AG, is a Swiss energy company headquartered in Baden and Switzerland's largest renewable energy producer and power supplier, founded in 2001.
AXS TV
AXS TV is an American music, entertainment, and combat-sports cable and FAST network founded by Mark Cuban in 2001 as HDNet, rebranded AXS TV in 2012 with AEG, and majority-owned by Anthem Sports & Entertainment since 2019, airing concerts and TNA Impact!
Axtria
Axtria is a data-analytics and cloud software company serving the life sciences industry, founded by Jassi Chadha in 2010 and headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.
Ay (pharaoh)
Ay, also known as Itnetjer-ay and by the throne name Kheperkheperure, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty who ruled for about four years, ca. 1327–1323 BC, immediately after Tutankhamun.
Aya-rammu
Aya-rammu, also rendered Aya-ramu or 'Ilāya-rām, was king of Edom around 701 BC, listed in Sennacherib's annals among the Levantine rulers who submitted to Assyria.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-born Dutch-American activist, former Dutch MP (2003–2006), author of Infidel and Heretic, AHA Foundation founder, Hoover Institution fellow, converted to Christianity in 2023.
Ayakalla
Ayakalla was governor of the Mesopotamian city of Umma under the Ur III dynasty, succeeding Ur-Lisi and serving from about 2040 to 2020 BC; he is known from administrative tablets.
Ayako Ishikawa
Ayako Ishikawa (石川彩子, born 1984) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded MeetsMore, a Tokyo-based quotation-comparison platform, in 2017 and was named a Nikkei Woman of the Year 2024.
Ayal Itzkovitz
Ayal Itzkovitz is an Israeli venture capital investor and computer scientist who is a Managing Partner at Pitango First, having co-founded Convergin, which Oracle acquired in 2010.
Ayala Corporation
Ayala Corporation, also known as Ayala Corp., is a Philippine holding conglomerate founded in 1834, the country's oldest, controlled by the Zóbel de Ayala family for seven generations.
Ayanna Pressley
Ayanna Pressley, Democratic U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th District since 2019, first Black woman in Congress from Massachusetts, former Boston City Council member, Squad member, CROWN Act lead sponsor.
Ayar Labs
Ayar Labs is a silicon photonics startup founded in 2015 by MIT, Berkeley, and CU Boulder researchers, making optical I/O chiplets for AI systems and valued at $3.75 billion.