Joshua Elkington is a founder-investor at Axial VC who brands the firm as an agency for great inventors, positioning himself as a long-term partner to individual inventors and founder-scientists rather than a traditional VC, with deep specialization in life sciences company formation. He operates at the intersection of life sciences and computer science, running the Axial Substack and Podcast where he publishes detailed strategy pieces on biotech business models and maintains close ties to the academic research community through his tracking of university labs and early-career scientists. Joshua Elkington is a founder-investor at Axial VC who brands the firm as an agency for great inventors, positioning himself as a long-term partner to individual inventors and founder-scientists rather than a traditional VC, with deep specialization in life sciences company formation. He operates at the intersection of life sciences and computer science, running the Axial Substack and Podcast where he publishes detailed strategy pieces on biotech business models and maintains close ties to the academic research community through his tracking of university labs and early-career scientists.