Is technology in the early innings of fully automating the M&A banker?  Earlier this year, CB Insights put out a 45-page report titled Killing the I-Bank. This topic seems to gain a few attention-grabbing stories each year (see here, here, and here). The CB Insights report details the ways in…

Marc Andreessen, famous entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, famously asserted in 2011 that “software is eating the world.”  More recently, there is a growing chorus of pundits and practitioners talking about the impact of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) across the financial services industry. Some of this has turned out to…

2017 was a turning point for Axial. Our focus was exclusively on quality — quality members, quality deal activity, and quality member experiences. Below, we highlight some of the most interesting deals that happened between our members in 2017, but first we thought it would be interesting to share a…