Full-Time
Implementation Specialist
Axle Labs
11-50 employees
Universal API for insurance data verification
Compensation Overview
$80k - $95k/yr
New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
Four days on-site per week are required in the New York City office; the role also involves client and conference travel at least twice per month.
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- At least 3 years of experience in implementation, solutions engineering, technical account management, or professional services.
- Ability to partner closely with sales and engineering leadership to drive successful customer launches.
- Strong technical generalist skills, sharp product intuition, and a track record of driving complex integrations to successful go-live.
- Comfort operating in a high-growth, ambiguous environment and building processes and tooling from the ground up.
- Ability to quickly grasp new technologies, application programming interfaces, integrations, and complex technical concepts.
- Ability to solve complex client challenges through creative problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration.
- Willingness to travel to client sites and conferences at least twice per month.
- Lead onboarding and implementation for dealer and rental customers by building relationships with decision-makers, technical stakeholders, and daily operational users.
- Drive launches by scoping integration requirements, managing project timelines, and guiding customers through application programming interface integration, user acceptance testing, and go-live.
- Develop expertise in each client's technology stack, workflows, Axle integrations, and the automotive insurance landscape to provide technical guidance and configuration recommendations.
- Build and refine repeatable implementation playbooks, runbooks, and tooling to reduce time-to-launch and improve deployment quality.
- Own implementation milestones and kickoff-to-launch key performance indicators; track time-to-value, integration health, and launch readiness to ensure customers reach production successfully.
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify implementation friction and implement methods and tooling to exceed launch targets.
- Represent the customer internally by translating technical feedback from dealerships, rental operators, and their information technology teams into actionable insights for Product and Engineering.
- Experience implementing software for automotive, fleet, dealership, rental car, or automotive insurance programs, particularly in a business-to-business or enterprise environment.
- At least 6 years of enterprise implementation or technical program management experience.
- Previous experience in business-to-business technology, automotive, insurance, lending, or mortgage industries.
- Experience implementing software for dealers, rental car companies, fleet operators, original equipment manufacturers, or large multi-location enterprise groups.
- Hands-on experience with application programming interface integrations, webhooks, and system-to-system data flows.
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product and Engineering to deliver successful client launches.
Axle Labs provides a universal API for insurance data that lets businesses instantly verify insurance coverage and keep track of ongoing protection. Through a single API, clients such as insurance providers, banks, and automotive companies can integrate real-time insurance checks into their operations. The service uses secure data transmission and encryption to protect consumer information, and pricing is based on usage or subscriptions. Axle differentiates itself by offering a broad, centralized data interface that works across multiple industries and emphasizes secure, rapid access to verified coverage. Backed by investors like Google and Y Combinator, the company aims to reduce operational risk and improve decision-making by making insurance data easy to access and monitor.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$25.7M
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
Founded
2022
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Axle raised $17.5 million on August 11, 2026, led by Base10 Partners.
- The company now processes over $100 billion in annual coverage across 4,000 businesses.
- Axle expanded July 2026 products with Flood Insurance, Document AI, and Policy Lookup.
What critics are saying
- Carrier portal changes can break Axle’s access and slow verification accuracy immediately.
- Experian, TransUnion, and carrier-native tools can commoditize insurance verification by 2027.
- If insurers restrict data sharing, Axle loses coverage breadth and its clearinghouse thesis dies.
What makes Axle Labs unique
- Axle unifies carrier data into one API across auto, home, renters, and flood policies.
- Its 2026 agents automate verify, validate, and monitor workflows inside customer apps.
- Experian embedded Axle into Fraud Protect, giving instant distribution in auto finance.
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Health Insurance
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Vision Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
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401(k) Retirement Plan
Wellness Program
Mentorship Program
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6 month growth
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↑ 37%2 year growth
↑ 37%Axle announces $17.5M Series A led by Base10. Axle, building AI agents to automate insurance workflows led by Cameron Duncan, Nihar Parikh, and Armaan Sikand, has announced $17.5M in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners, with continued investment from Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures, and participation from Stage2 Capital, Chris Bayley (Co-Founder and CEO of Cover Genius), and other industry angel investors, joined by existing investors, including the early team at Plaid. Over the past six months, Axle has tripled the number of workflows it automates, now processing more than $100 billion in annual coverage across 4,000+ businesses, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. The platform has accelerated these workflows by up to 20x and helped customers recover hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Before Axle, verifying renter insurance meant either absorbing the risk or slowing down the customer experience. Axle provides instant, accurate verification and has helped SIXT recover millions in losses previously written off each year. - Jordan Bannantine, Head of Risk Management, SIXT An $8.3 trillion industry still running on paper and phone calls. Insurance is an $8.3 trillion backbone of the economy, supporting mortgages, car purchases, apartment leases, vehicle rentals, and countless other transactions. Yet many businesses still rely on fax machines and phone calls to verify, update, and monitor policies. A single mortgage can require more than 10 insurance interactions over its lifetime, from calculating DTI and verifying coverage to loan sales, escrow payments, and claims support. The underlying challenge is structural. Unlike banking and credit, insurance lacks a common ledger. Major carriers can operate 15 or more policy systems, while critical data often remains trapped in unstructured documents built for brokers rather than software. Building the clearinghouse for insurance. Axle's infrastructure and AI agents connect fragmented insurance systems, route requests to the right source, and normalize unstructured data into a common standard. The result is a unified API that enables software and AI agents to automate core insurance workflows, including verifying coverage, checking requirements, updating policies, and monitoring changes. In 2026, insurance verification should no longer depend on faxed PDFs or phone calls. Axle aims to make insurance programmable by building the infrastructure that enables a new generation of products. - Adeyemi Ajao, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Base10 Partners What's next? The funding will support hiring across engineering and go-to-market teams while expanding Axle's clearinghouse to more than 50 insurance segments across Home, Auto, Renters, Commercial, and Specialty. The company will also deepen direct relationships with carriers using Axle as a governed gateway to businesses and consumers. The longer-term ambition is to make insurance standardized and programmable, similar to the clearinghouses that underpin credit, payments, and identity. This infrastructure could create greater value for insurers, businesses, and the consumers they serve. Remote Hire With Us: Menlo Talent helps technology companies hire exceptional remote talent from India. Build your team with carefully curated engineers, product leaders, designers, GTM professionals, and more. Learn More At: https://www.menlotimes.com/menlo-talent
Axle, an AI-native insurance clearinghouse, has raised $17.5 million in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners. Y Combinator and Gradient continued their investment, with participation from Stage 2 Capital and industry angels. The company now clears more than $100 billion in coverage annually for over 4,000 clients, including Fortune 500 customers such as Rocket Mortgage, Avis, Experian, and Sonic Automotive. Axle has accelerated insurance verification workflows by 20 times whilst helping customers recover hundreds of millions in losses. Axle addresses inefficiencies in the $8.3 trillion insurance industry, which still relies heavily on manual processes like faxes and phone calls. The company's infrastructure integrates fragmented carrier systems into a single API. The fresh capital will fund expansion into more than 50 insurance segments and deepen carrier relationships.
Axle, Experian add real-time insurance fraud checks. Axle partners with Experian to integrate real-time auto insurance verification into Fraud Protect, helping dealers detect identity fraud and reduce risk at the point of sale. Axle, a provider of real-time insurance data APIs, announced a strategic collaboration with Experian to integrate its verification technology into Experian's Fraud Protect(TM) platform, giving automotive dealers and lenders a new tool to detect fraud and strengthen compliance. The partnership will allow dealerships to instantly confirm whether a customer has active, valid auto insurance before a vehicle leaves the lot - a step that can help prevent identity fraud, income misrepresentation, and other costly risks. Real-Time verification at the point of sale. Experian's Fraud Protect platform is widely used by dealers to validate identities, verify income, and confirm ownership of trade-in vehicles. With the addition of Axle's technology, dealers will now be able to verify insurance coverage in real time within the same workflow. The integration provides immediate confirmation of key details, including policy status, coverage limits, vehicle identification number (VIN) matches, and lienholder information - all through a mobile-friendly system designed to fit seamlessly into existing dealership processes. The companies say this added layer of data will help dealers spot potential red flags earlier, particularly as fraud schemes grow more sophisticated. Rising threats in auto finance. Automotive fraud has become an increasing concern across the industry. According to recent Experian research, 70 percent of dealers and 61 percent of lenders believe fraud risk is on the rise. Synthetic identities, falsified documentation, and misrepresented trade-ins have all become more common, often exploiting gaps in digital sales workflows. "Fraud isn't just increasing - it's becoming more intelligent, exploiting digital retail workflows, identity gaps, and behavioral signals that legacy tools were never built to detect," said Robert Granados, President of Experian Automotive. "Integrating Axle's real-time insurance verification into Experian's Fraud Protect empowers dealers to assess additional identity and vehicle components to mitigate potential fraud risk and protect their portfolios." By cross-checking insurance information alongside identity and income data, dealers can make more informed decisions before approving a transaction, reducing the likelihood of chargebacks and buybacks after the fact. Turning compliance into protection. For Axle, the collaboration represents an opportunity to position insurance verification as more than a regulatory requirement. "Our joint effort with Experian allows dealerships and lenders to use insurance data not just for compliance, but as a powerful fraud-prevention resource," said Armaan Sikand, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Axle. "By embedding Axle directly into Fraud Protect, dealers can instantly verify insurance and gain clarity on whether a customer is properly covered - reducing risk while creating a seamless experience for the buyer." The companies said the integrated solution is available to dealers using Experian's Fraud Protect platform.
Axle has partnered with Experian to integrate real-time automotive insurance verification into Experian's Fraud Protect platform, helping dealerships and lenders detect fraud and strengthen compliance. The collaboration enables dealers to instantly verify active insurance coverage, policy status, vehicle identification number matches and lienholder details within existing workflows. Recent Experian research shows 70% of dealers and 61% of lenders view fraud as an increasing threat in the automotive industry. The integration provides dealers with tools to detect synthetic identities, high-risk applicants and misrepresented trade-ins before they result in costly chargebacks. Axle, backed by Gradient, Y Combinator and leaders from Plaid and Cox Automotive, provides AI-native insurance verification APIs used by Fortune 500 lenders and franchise dealers to automate insurance verification and monitor coverage.
Today, Axle is excited to announce the wide release of Flood Insurance policy support - now available to all Axle partners.