aid: axial
name: Axial Networks
description: 'Axial Networks operates Axial (axial.net), a private deal network for
  mergers, acquisitions and capital raising in the North American lower middle market.
  Founded in 2010 and based in New York, the platform connects business owners, M&A
  advisors, private equity buyers, strategic acquirers and lenders around live sell-side
  and buy-side transactions, and publishes a public member directory, the Middle Market
  Review editorial forum, industry deal-activity dashboards and business valuation
  calculators. The member product runs at network.axial.net and product help documentation
  at guide.axial.net. Axial publishes an llms.txt orientation file for language models
  and a public status page, but ships no public API, SDK, webhook surface or developer
  program — the platform is delivered as an authenticated end-user application only.'
image: https://www.axial.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-00_Axial-favicon-120x120.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/axial/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Capital
- Deal Sourcing
- Financial Services
- Middle Market
- Investment Banking
- Marketplace
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/axial-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.axial.net/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://guide.axial.net/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.axial.net/forum/
- type: Login
  url: https://network.axial.net/sign-in
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.axial.net/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.axial.net/legal/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.axial.net/legal/privacy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/axialmarket
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/axial
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/AxialCo
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/axial-llms.txt
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/axial-lifecycle.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-06'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: >-
    Axial ships its lower-middle-market deal network only as an authenticated
    end-user application at network.axial.net — api.axial.net resolves in DNS but
    404s on every spec path, the app host answers a 15,072-byte SPA shell for any
    route (so its 200s are a catch-all, not endpoints), and neither the marketing
    site, the guide.axial.net help center, the published llms.txt nor the Terms of
    Service mentions an API, SDK or webhook anywhere.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.axial.net/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.axial.net/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://network.axial.net/graphql
    status: 405
  - url: https://www.axial.net/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.axial.net/llms.txt
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-06'