Axis

Winter 2026

Models for Monitoring Commodities Markets

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Fintech

About Company

Axis is building an AI research platform for the commodities trading industry, allowing a trader or analyst to deploy models for monitoring information relevant to their strategy. Commodities make up a third of global goods exports, and physical commodities traders decide the movement and storage of metals, agricultural products, and energy (Crude, Refined Products, Natural Gas, Petroleum) across the globe. Due to the size of these markets, commodities traders monitor data sources spanning prices and derivatives, refinery data, storage inventory, import/exports, geopolitical events and more. Axis is building an analytical layer for these markets.

In Their Words

How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)

We’ve known each other since pre-school and both worked in quantitative trading for a period. We started building together because we had strong belief that models would enable a new paradigm for how we interact with markets. Our main thesis can be summed as: Models & Markets.\ \ Markets, with some strong caveats, are games with nice reward functions and clear rules. At the same time, markets possess a wealth of structured context, both price history and also market commentary, news, etc.\ In the status quo, much of a trader or investor’s job is actually digesting and analyzing this abundant context as pretext to making decisions.\ \ We believe that models can be very powerful when applied to these large and varied contexts and in the long-term will be a default when interacting with public or semi-public markets. We’ve picked commodities markets as our first use case.