Healthcare IT · Home health operations software
Axle Health
A scheduling and logistics platform built to cut the driving time out of home health visits. Founded as a home health provider itself, Axle pivoted in 2023 to sell its software to the industry, and has since raised a $10 million Series A on the strength of that switch.
Phlebotomists at the door
In early 2021, Axle Health was not a software company but a network of phlebotomists, medical assistants, LVNs and RNs who showed up at people's homes to run diagnostic tests, mostly for COVID-19, for telehealth companies that needed someone in the room. “In terms of the professionals that we send in-home, they're phlebotomists, MAs, LVNs and RNs as well,” co-founder Connor Hailey told TechCrunch that February. Its biggest partner, Sameday Health, was charging $250 for a self-pay at-home PCR test.
Hailey and co-founder Adam Stansell had met through tech, not medicine: Hailey at ZocDoc and then Uber, Stansell launching new markets for Uber Eats and later building a business line at Motive, a fleet logistics company. Their pitch to each other was simple: healthcare needed the routing and dispatch discipline that ride-hailing and delivery had already built. “The rich have access to in-home care; we can make it economical enough so that we can bring it to everyone,” Hailey said.
The inefficiency underneath
Home health clinicians spend less than 40 percent of their working time actually with a patient, according to figures Stansell has cited; the rest goes to driving, scheduling and paperwork. A University of Pennsylvania study found nurses are 50 percent more likely to quit when they deal with high schedule volatility, and a 2022 Home Health Care News and AlayaCare survey found one in five agencies named inconsistent schedules as their top driver of turnover.
“[Scheduling] is one of the things that's most inefficient in our business today,” Chris Gerard, CEO of home care operator TheKey, told Home Health Care News. Axle's bet is that a logistics engine built for the task can close that gap the way delivery apps closed it for restaurants.
Running the business before selling the software
Axle's own service arm scaled to operate in all 50 states and grew to a couple of million dollars in revenue, Stansell told Business Insider. Running the network directly showed the founders exactly where scheduling and dispatch broke down, and in 2023 the company shut the services business down and turned the internal tooling into a standalone product for other providers to license.
The pivot moved fast: Axle's new SaaS platform launched to outside customers in 2023 and passed $1 million in annual recurring revenue within its first 12 months, per the company's February 2024 funding announcement. “We weren't planning on raising additional capital once we got profitable last year, but we're excited to add a valuable new perspective to the team, while also enabling us to lean aggressively into our new product offering,” Stansell said when the company closed a $4.2 million round led by TRAC VC, with Pear VC returning.
From seed to Series A
That February 2024 round brought Axle's reported total to $4.4 million, per the company's own release. A March 2024 interview with the same CEO, published by LA TechWatch, put the total at $7 million instead, a figure the company has not repeated or corrected since. Fifteen months later, Axle announced a $10 million Series A in May 2025, led by F-Prime Capital with Y Combinator, Pear VC and Lightbank participating. “Our mission is to make high-quality home healthcare accessible to everyone who needs it, regardless of location or socioeconomic status,” Stansell said in the announcement.
The company told Business Insider revenue had grown roughly tenfold over the prior year; its press release put the figure at 900 percent growth over fiscal year 2024, the same multiple stated differently.
What is proven, and what is still claimed
| Evidence | What the record shows | Source type |
|---|---|---|
| Founding model | Axle began as a vertically integrated home health services provider, operating its own network of clinicians in all 50 states, before shutting that business down in 2023 to license its scheduling software to other providers instead. | Company-stated |
| Early business (2021) | Provided on-demand, in-home diagnostic testing, mostly COVID-19 PCR tests, through telehealth partners. Its largest partner, Sameday Health, charged $250 for a self-pay at-home test. | Independent |
| Patent status | Axle's own materials disagree. Its website and a March 2024 founder interview describe a “patented logistics engine.” Its May 2025 Series A release and a quote from Pear VC partner Mar Hershenson both call the same system “patent-pending.” | Conflict |
| EMR integrations | Integrated with Epic and Athenahealth as of February 2024. The company says it also connects to a wide range of other EMRs, CRMs and HR platforms via API. | Company-stated |
| Named customer result | Cityblock Health, described as an early Axle customer, saw a 17 percent boost in clinician productivity after adopting the platform. A second, unnamed customer cut missed visits by 55 percent. | Investor interview |
| Revenue disclosures | Surpassed $1M ARR in its first 12 months after the 2023 SaaS launch. The company later reported 900 percent revenue growth over fiscal year 2024, and told Business Insider revenue had grown roughly tenfold in the prior year. No dollar revenue figures have been disclosed. | Company-stated |
| Regulatory and grant record | No FDA 510(k) or PMA filings, registered clinical trials, NIH awards, or NSF awards tied to Axle Health were found in a search of those databases as of September 2026. | Not found |
| SEC Form D | No Form D appears under “Axle Health” or close variants in SEC EDGAR company search as of September 2026, despite a reported $4.4M to $7M in seed funding and a $10M Series A. | Not found |
Read plainly: the commercial story, a pivot from service provider to software vendor, a fast climb past $1M ARR, and a $10M Series A from a recognizable syndicate, is well documented in the trade press and the company's own announcements. Missing is independent verification of the productivity numbers, a public accounting of the seed round's true size, and a federal filing to check the funding totals against.
What to watch
- Whether Axle files a Form D for the Series A, or for any earlier round, with the SEC.
- Named enterprise and health-system customers beyond Cityblock Health.
- Whether the company settles its own patented versus patent-pending description of the logistics engine.
- Reconciliation of the $4.4 million and $7 million total seed funding figures given by the company within weeks of each other in 2024.
- Delivery of the generative AI patient engagement and voice-call features promised alongside the Series A.
In their words
“The rich have access to in-home care; we can make it economical enough so that we can bring it to everyone.”
Connor Hailey, co-founder, TechCrunch, 2021 · Independent
“We have a patented logistics engine powering all of our route optimization, to ensure that our efficiency is best in class.”
Adam Stansell, CEO, LA TechWatch interview, 2024 · Interview
“With clinician burnout skyrocketing, the only way to solve the national staffing shortage is by getting best-in-class technology into the hands of every provider in the country.”
Adam Stansell, CEO, Business Wire, Feb 22, 2024 · Company release
“Axle's been able to show significant value created for its customers, and the team has done a phenomenal job executing on their vision.”
Vivien Ho, partner, Pear VC, Business Wire, Feb 22, 2024 · Company release
“Caring for patients at home amid constrained clinical resources and administrative complexity is a challenge I have encountered firsthand,” ... “Axle is tackling urgent issues faced by in-home providers daily.”
Julia McDowell, venture partner, F-Prime, Home Health Care News, May 22, 2025 · Independent
“Our mission is to make high-quality home healthcare accessible to everyone who needs it, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.”
Adam Stansell, CEO, PR Newswire, May 22, 2025 · Company release
“You're not going to have one provider that's going to solve the whole thing,” ... “You need an ecosystem.”
Adam Stansell, CEO, Business Insider, May 22, 2025 · Independent
“Healthcare is for people who love getting punched in the face every day, but you save patients along the way, so it's worth it.”
Adam Stansell, CEO, Pear Healthcare Playbook interview, Jul 16, 2025 · Interview
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Profile researched and written by Healthcare Discovery. Last updated September 29, 2026.
