
Axioma develops and sells software tools that help professional portfolio managers implement their investment strategies. Founded in 1998 in New York City, the growing company expanded outside the United States to Hong Kong, Singapore and London in 2006. Its high-powered products are based on advanced optimization techniques, but Axioma’s own finance professionals relied on Excel spreadsheets for budgeting and planning. When the company went international, they saw that this casual solution would no longer suffice.