Helping you navigate — and accelerate — the commercial healthcare ecosystem
Axis Growth Partners serves as a navigator and connector across the health system — helping companies accelerate adoption by bridging the worlds of innovation, reimbursement, and operations. We design the commercial infrastructure that allows great health-tech, MedTech, and digital health products to move faster through payer, provider, employer, and partnership ecosystems — turning innovation into scalable impact.
Commercial Value Drivers
Commercial Architecture Design
We architect the systems, structures, and playbooks that turn innovation into scalable growth — aligning product strategy, market access, and partnerships into a unified commercial foundation.
Growth Engine Diagnostics & Acceleration Systems
Through focused 60–100-day engagements, we identify structural friction and unlock acceleration levers across channels, pricing, contracting, and operations — building the rhythms that make growth repeatable.
Market Entry & Ecosystem Access Strategy
We navigate the payer, provider, employer, and concierge landscape — crafting the partnerships, proof-of-value pathways, and contracting strategies that accelerate adoption and reimbursement.
Value Creation & Investor Readiness
Axis partners with venture and private equity investors to validate commercial models, pressure-test growth assumptions, and design 100-day value-creation blueprints that drive portfolio performance.
GTM Operating Systems & Revenue Infrastructure
We help growth-stage and scaling companies design the internal operating infrastructure for predictable growth — sales motions, pipeline design, incentive alignment, and renewal systems that institutionalize commercial excellence.
The Axis Perspective
At Axis Growth Partners, we think in systems — not PowerPoints.
We’re Commercialization Architects helping category-defining health-tech companies build the operating engines that scale. Every engagement begins by identifying the structural friction inside a company’s growth model — then architecting pilots, partnerships, and execution systems that convert outcomes data into measurable ROI.
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Our work spans medical device innovators, clinical platforms advancing toward commercialization, and private-equity and venture-backed health tech portfolios seeking to bridge scientific validation and payer-aligned revenue. Across every engagement, the objective is constant: transform proven technology into adoption, reimbursement, and sustainable growth.
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Axis partners primarily with Series B–D and PE-backed health-tech companies ready to institutionalize commercialization discipline and accelerate scale. These leaders don’t need another strategic deck — they need a blueprint that operationalizes ROI and unlocks market traction across payer, employer, and provider channels.
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Axis was founded by Tom Riley, who began advising early-stage ventures while at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Tom draws on experience at Genentech, Deloitte, Kaiser Permanente, and CVS Health / Aetna, where he learned firsthand how national health plans, providers, biopharma companies, and employers evaluate innovation and make go-forward decisions. He applies that institutional insight to help growth-stage companies penetrate and expand within the traditional healthcare system with precision and speed.
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Axis combines the analytical rigor of top-tier consulting with the bias-to-execution of a venture studio — building commercialization architectures, data frameworks, and partner ecosystems that turn strategy into systemized growth.
Who We Work With
Axis partners with innovators and investors shaping the future of health and technology:
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Health-Tech & MedTech Founders translating clinical breakthroughs into scalable commercial traction.
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Commercial & Market Access Leaders accelerating adoption across payer, provider, employer, biopharma, and emerging channels.
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Venture & Private Equity Investors designing commercialization systems and value-creation plans that drive portfolio growth.
If you’re navigating similar challenges, Axis can help architect the next layer of your growth engine.
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"Axis Growth Partners helps health innovators accelerate commercialization through system-level architecture, not one-off consulting. They know the payer, provider, and partnership landscape cold, and they’ve done it for major names"
Let's Architect What's Next
Axis Growth Partners helps commercialization leaders and innovators move faster through the healthcare ecosystem — uncovering structural friction and designing the systems, playbooks, and rhythms that remove it.
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If you’re exploring how to scale adoption, expand into new healthcare channels, or pressure-test your go-to-market architecture, let’s connect.
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