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Christine Watts

Founder

Founder at Oxus

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedOxus · YC

About

Christine Watts is co-founder and CTO of Oxus. She holds a B.S. in Artificial Intelligence from MIT and has prior experience building machine learning systems at early-stage and growth-stage startups, as well as working as a consultant at BCG and NERA.

Founder at OxusYC W26

Intro paths

YC

Christine went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Oxus's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Christine can intro founders to Oxus's investors below.

Oxus's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Oxus

JLJanet Liu
Janet LiuFounder
MLMelinda Liu
Melinda LiuFounder

Experience

  1. Oxus (YC W26)Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. MIT CISR (MIT Center for Information Systems Research)Researcher2025
  3. NERAAnalyst2025
  4. Boston Consulting Group (BCG)Summer Associate2024San Francisco, California, United States
  5. Centrillion Technology, Inc.Software Engineer Intern2023Palo Alto, California, United States
  6. KeeperAIData Scientist and Business Development Intern2022 — 2023New York, United States
  7. AppleApple Aspirations in Computing Summer Workshop2021Cupertino, California, United States
  8. University of IowaIowa Young Writers' Studio Alum2021Iowa City, Iowa, United States
  9. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT Women's Technology Program Alum2021Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  10. Stanford UniversityResearch Intern @ Stanford Healthcare Innovation Lab2020Palo Alto, California, United States
  11. Stanford UniversityResearch Intern @ Laboratory of Quantitative Imaging and Artificial Intelligence2020Palo Alto, California, United States

Skills & more

Natural Language Processing (NLP)Computer VisionAPI DevelopmentGNU Octave2Machine Learning2TensorFlowFirebaseGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)FlaskSOLIDWORKS2MATLAB2Java1
+1 morePython (Programming Language)

Languages English · French · Mandarin Chinese

  • Machine Learning — Stanford University
  • Python — Kaggle

From Christine's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Christine Watts?
Christine Watts is co-founder and CTO of Oxus. She holds a B.S. in Artificial Intelligence from MIT and has prior experience building machine learning systems at early-stage and growth-stage startups, as well as working as a consultant at BCG and NERA.
Where does Christine Watts work?
Christine Watts is Founder of Oxus.
What companies did Christine Watts found?
Christine Watts founded Oxus.
Where did Christine Watts go to school?
Christine Watts studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Minor in Finance); Homestead High School (High School Diploma).

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